Vienna Celtic RFC is an Austrian

Austria national rugby union team

Austria is a third tier rugby union playing nation. They began playing international rugby in the early 1990s. Thus far, Austria has not made an appearance at any of the World Cups.-History:...

 rugby

Rugby union

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 club in Vienna. They are the oldest team in Austria.

History

The club was founded on 19 January 1978 by a Scotsman

Scotland

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, John Skinner, and two Austrians

Austrians

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, Johann Schweiger and Bernhard Eigenberger.

Current squad

Internationally Capped Players

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|valign="top" width="50%"| Bojan Lukic Musheigh Aslanyan Lee Zeinzinger Yeong-u Seo

Charity Work

Over the years the club started indulging in and organising charity events.

During the period of
1997 - 2010 Vienna Celtic realised a project in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

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 where firstly a borehole

Borehole

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and pump where provided to the community enabling access to clean water, later a school and additionaly a clinic where then built.

Since 2005 the club also hosts an annual 10's rugby tournament donating all proceeds to the "Austrian bone marrow register"