CR El Salvador

Not to be confused with El Salvador national rugby union team.
SilverStorm El Salvador
Full name Club de Rugby El Salvador
Founded 1960
Location Valladolid, Spain
Ground(s) Estadio Pepe Rojo (Capacity: 5,000)
Chairman Juan Carlos Martín
Coach(es) Juan Carlos Pérez
Captain(s) Iván Criado
League(s) División de Honor
2015–16 División de Honor, 2nd / W
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.rugbyelsalvador.com

Club de Rugby El Salvador is a Spanish rugby union club. The club was established in 1960 and currently competes in the División de Honor de Rugby competition, the highest level of Spanish club rugby. The club is based in Valladolid in central Spain, playing their matches at the Estadio Pepe Rojo. El Salvador plays in white and black colours. The team has in the past won both the Spanish League and the Copa del Rey de Rugby.

El Salvador is one of the most accomplished Spanish rugby union clubs having won División de Honor in seven times, Copa del Rey in six times and Supercopa de España in five times.

History

After spending one season in the First Division, the first team were promoted to Division de Honor again in the 1997/98 season; prelude to the coming season, a fact also unprecedented in a newly promoted, be proclaimed champion for the second time league. The following season was ended with two more titles: Ibero Cup and the Copa del Rey again, awards that came to swell the already lengthy prize of our club. In the 1999/2000 and 2001/02 seasons were in subcampeonatos won two league and one in Cup in 2002/03 and 2003/04 were achieved two new league titles, and in 2004/05 and 2005/06, two Spanish Cups, two League subcampeonatos of a new Ibero Cup and two Spanish Super Cups. All these titles, together with those achieved at lower levels, credited to our club as the entity most honored of our community and one of the most winners of Spain.

In the 2003/04 season for the first time CR El Salvador participated in a European competition, debuting in front of the mythical Harlequins in London and getting beat in 2nd round for the first time in a Spanish club to an Italian team (Rovigo), for the next season as getting milestone being the first Spanish club to move one round of the European Shield.

At present, with over 200 players in total, up from prebenjamines the first team, with the help of key Cetransa main sponsor and the other collaborators, the goal remains the beginnings of more than forty years ago: train players at a young age to know who appreciate the values of rugby, try to remain in the top national and try to return to European competitions.

In the 2006/07 season, they won all three titles at senior level, Division champion Honour, HM King Cup and the Super Cup title.

In the 2007/08 season, it was yet another excellent year for the team who won the Division de Honor and the Super Cup title.

In the Amlin Challenge cup in 2010/2011, they won Petrarca Padova rugby in Pepe Rojo stadium (37-16)

Honors

Season by season

Season Tier Division Pos. Notes
1970–71 1 División de Honor 2nd
1971–72 1 División de Honor 2nd
1972–73 1 División de Honor 3rd
1973–78 DNP
1978–79 2 Primera Nacional 3rd
1979–80 2 Primera Nacional 2nd
1980–81 2 Primera Nacional 3rd
1981–82 2 Primera Nacional 2nd
1982–83 2 Primera Nacional 3rd
1983–84 2 Primera Nacional 6th
1984–85 2 Primera Nacional 1st
1985–86 2 Primera Nacional 2nd
1986–87 1 División de Honor 8th
1987–88 1 División de Honor 3rd
1988–89 1 División de Honor 5th
1989–90 1 División de Honor 2nd
1990–91 1 División de Honor 1st League champion
1991–92 1 División de Honor 6th
1992–93 1 División de Honor 7th Cup champion
1993–94 1 División de Honor 3rd
1994–95 1 División de Honor 6th
Season Tier Division Pos. Notes
1995–96 1 División de Honor 9th
1996–97 2 Primera Nacional 1st
1997–98 1 División de Honor 1st League champion
1998–99 1 División de Honor 5th Cup champion
1999–00 1 División de Honor 2nd
2000–01 1 División de Honor 7th
2001–02 1 División de Honor 2nd
2002–03 1 División de Honor 1st League champion
2003–04 1 División de Honor 1st League champion
2004–05 1 División de Honor 2nd Cup champion
2005–06 1 División de Honor 2nd Cup champion
2006–07 1 División de Honor 1st League/Cup champion
2007–08 1 División de Honor 1st League champion
2008–09 1 División de Honor 2nd
2009–10 1 División de Honor 1st League champion
2010–11 1 División de Honor 3rd Cup champion
2011–12 1 División de Honor 7th
2012–13 1 División de Honor 4th / SF
2013–14 1 División de Honor 2nd / F
2014–15 1 División de Honor 5th / SF
2015–16 1 División de Honor 2nd / W League/Cup champion

International honours

Other notable players

Notable Signings

See also

External links

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