Unión de Rugby of Buenos Aires

The federation of Rugby with XV of Buenos Aires (in Spanish, Unión de Rugby of Buenos Aires (URBA)) is the entity responsible for the Rugby to XV in the Argentinian state of the province of Buenos Aires.

The URBA is also the team of Rugby to XV of the province of Buenos Aires in the national championship of provinces organized by the Unión Argentina de Rugby.

It is most powerful of the provincial federations of Argentina, it provides half of the players of the Équipe of Argentina of Rugby to XV.

It organizes also the Championship of Rugby to XV of the state of the province of Buenos Aires, the most important championship in Argentina, which gathers 80 clubs of province which play approximately 250 matches per week on all the levels.

Equip with the state of the province of Buenos Aires

The URBA like equips with Rugby with XV of the province of Buenos Aires in the national championship of provinces, is the strongest province and most titrated with 30 provincial titles out of the 59 disputed championships. This team also disputed international meetings, it carried out some notable performances:

In 1999, Buenos Aires 31 - 29 Team of Wales of Rugby with XV
In 1998, Buenos Aires 36 - 22 Équipe of France of Rugby to XV
In 1997, Buenos Aires 23 - 21 Équipe of England of Rugby with XV
In 1996, Buenos Aires 29 - 26 Équipe of France of Rugby to XV
In 1993, Buenos Aires 28 - 27 Équipe of South Africa of Rugby with XV
In 1990, Buenos Aires 26 - 23 Équipe of England of Rugby to XV

The championship of Buenos Aires

The championship of Buenos Aires, usually called Tournament of the URBA , is disputed by clubs of the province since 1899. The most titrated teams are the Club Atlético San Isidro (CASI) and the San Isidro Club (SIC) with 33 and 23 respective titles. Here the exhaustive list of the champions:

* this year there account several champions

The championship 2007

The championship is initially disputed in two groups of twelve teams:

External bonds

official site
history of the tournament of the provinces on the site of UAR
Images of Rugby to XV of the URBA
history of the URBA

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