Rugby Ekstraliga
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Rugby Ekstraliga is the premier league for rugby union
in Poland.
The competition was founded in 1957 and currently it is divided into two divisions – first and second. First Division consists of eight teams, second – of six. For victory, a team gets four points, two points for a tie and zero for a loss. First, historical rugby champion of Poland was the team of AZS-AWF Warsaw, which altogether holds the record of 15 championship titles. Budowlani Łódź are the current national champions (2010)
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
in Poland.
The competition was founded in 1957 and currently it is divided into two divisions – first and second. First Division consists of eight teams, second – of six. For victory, a team gets four points, two points for a tie and zero for a loss. First, historical rugby champion of Poland was the team of AZS-AWF Warsaw, which altogether holds the record of 15 championship titles. Budowlani Łódź are the current national champions (2010)
Champions
- 1957–1958: AZS-AWF Warsaw
- 1959: Czarni Bytom
- 1960–1961: Lechia Gdańsk
- 1962–1963: AZS-AWF Warsaw
- 1964–1969: Skra Warsaw
- 1970: Lechia Gdańsk
- 1971: Polonia Poznań
- 1972–1973: AZS-AWF Warszawa
- 1974–1976: Polonia Poznań
- 1977: AZS-AWF Warsaw
- 1978: Polonia Poznań
- 1979–1982: AZS-AWF Warsaw
- 1983: Budowlani ŁódźBudowlani ŁódźBudowlani Łódź is a sports club based in Łódź, Poland. The club was founded in 1948. The club participates in many mens and women's sports competitions. They are primarily known as a rugby club but also compete in volleyball, hockey and wrestling. They are the current national mens rugby champions...
- 1984–1986: AZS-AWF Warsaw
- 1987: Ogniwo Sopot
- 1988: AZS-AWF Warszawa
- 1989–1993: Ogniwo Sopot
- 1994–1996: Lechia Gdańsk
- 1997: Ogniwo Sopot
- 1998: Lechia Gdańsk
- 1999: Ogniwo Sopot
- 2000–2002: Lechia Gdańsk
- 2003: Ogniwo Sopot
- 2004–2005: Arka GdyniaRC Arka GdyniaArka Gdynia is a Polish rugby union club based in Gdynia, Poland.-Honours:* Rugby Ekstraliga** Champions: 2004, 2005, 2011** Runners-up: 2000, 2002, 2007, 2009-History:...
- 2006–2007: Budowlani ŁódźBudowlani ŁódźBudowlani Łódź is a sports club based in Łódź, Poland. The club was founded in 1948. The club participates in many mens and women's sports competitions. They are primarily known as a rugby club but also compete in volleyball, hockey and wrestling. They are the current national mens rugby champions...
- 2008: Folc AZS Warsaw
- 2009: Budowlani ŁódźBudowlani ŁódźBudowlani Łódź is a sports club based in Łódź, Poland. The club was founded in 1948. The club participates in many mens and women's sports competitions. They are primarily known as a rugby club but also compete in volleyball, hockey and wrestling. They are the current national mens rugby champions...
- 2010: Budowlani ŁódźBudowlani ŁódźBudowlani Łódź is a sports club based in Łódź, Poland. The club was founded in 1948. The club participates in many mens and women's sports competitions. They are primarily known as a rugby club but also compete in volleyball, hockey and wrestling. They are the current national mens rugby champions...
Extraliga Teams
| Team | Stadium | City |
|---|---|---|
| Arka Gdynia RC Arka Gdynia Arka Gdynia is a Polish rugby union club based in Gdynia, Poland.-Honours:* Rugby Ekstraliga** Champions: 2004, 2005, 2011** Runners-up: 2000, 2002, 2007, 2009-History:... |
National Rugby Stadium National Rugby Stadium The National Rugby Stadium is multi-purpose stadium in Gdynia, Poland. It is currently used mostly rugby union matches and american football games... (2 425) |
Gdynia Gdynia Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together... |
| Budowlani Lublin | Stadion przy ul. Krasińskiego 11 | Lublin Lublin Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river... |
| Budowlani Łódź | Górniczej 5 | Łódź |
| Juvenia Kraków Juvenia Kraków Juvenia Kraków is a Polish rugby union club based in Kraków, Poland. It was founded in 1906 as a football club. Since 1973 it has been playing rugby union. Now Juvenia Kraków is playing in Rugby Ekstraliga.... |
Na Błoniach 7 (800) | Kraków Kraków Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life... |
| Lechia Gdańsk | Grunwaldzkiej 244 | Gdańsk Gdansk Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the... |
| Ogniwo Sopot | Jana z Kolna 18 | Sopot Sopot Sopot is a seaside town in Eastern Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000.... |
| Orkan Sochaczew | Warszawskiej 80 (3 000) | Sochaczew Sochaczew Sochaczew is a town in central Poland, with 38,300 inhabitants . Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , previously in Skierniewice Voivodeship . It is the capital of Sochaczew County.... |
| Posnania | Słowiańskiej 78]] (4 000) | Poznań Poznan Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be... |
First Division Teams
| Team | Stadium | City |
|---|---|---|
| Bemowo AZS-AWF Warsaw | Obrońców Tobruku 11 (980) | Warszawa |
| Czarni Pruszcz Gdański | Chopina 34 | Pruszcz Gdański Pruszcz Gdanski Pruszcz Gdański is a town in Gdańsk Pomerania, northwestern Poland with 26834 inhabitants . Pruszcz Gdański is an industrial town neighbouring Gdańsk, part of the Tricity agglomeration... |
| RC Kosmaz Koszalin | Wańkowicza 8/37 | Koszalin Koszalin Koszalin ; is the largest city of Middle Pomerania in north-western Poland. It is located 12 km south of the Baltic Sea coast. Koszalin is also a county-status city and capital of Koszalin County of West Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999... |
| Pogoń Siedlce | Wojskowej (5 000) | Siedlce Siedlce Siedlce ) is a city in eastern Poland with 77,392 inhabitants . Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , previously the city was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship .... |
| Skra Warsaw | Wawelskiej 5 | Warszawa |
| WMPD Rugby Olsztyn | Artyleryjskiej 3 | Olsztyn Olsztyn Olsztyn is a city in northeastern Poland, on the Łyna River. Olsztyn has been the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999. It was previously in the Olsztyn Voivodeship... |
Second Division Teams
- Dragonia Mosina
- Kaskada Szczecin
- Posnania II
- Sparta Jarocin
- Alfa Bydgoszcz
- AZS RC Zielona Góra