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| Full name | Club de Rugby El Salvador | ||
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| Nickname | Chamizos | ||
| Founded | 1960 | ||
| Location | Valladolid, Spain | ||
| Ground | Estadio Pepe Rojo (Capacity: 5,000) | ||
| Chairman | Rian Butcher | ||
| Coach | Álvaro Gorostiza | ||
| League | División de Honor | ||
| 2024–25 | Champions | ||
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| Official website | |||
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Club de Rugby El Salvador is a Spanishrugby union club. The club was established in 1960 and currently competes in the men'sDivisión de Honor de Rugby and in the women'sDivisión de Honor Femenina de Rugby competitions, the highest levels of Spanish club rugby. The club is based inValladolid in central Spain, playing their matches at theEstadio Pepe Rojo. The club's colours are black and white.
El Salvador is one of the most successful Spanish rugby union clubs, having wonDivisión de Honor in seven times,Copa del Rey in six times andSupercopa de España in five times.
The women team, known asColina Clinic El Salvador for sponsorship purposes, competes on theLiga Iberdrola.[1]
El Salvador were relegated to the second-tier Primera Division, in 1995/96 season, spending one season in the second-tier Primera División, but immediately returned to the División de Honor after topping the table in the 1996/97 season. That success was followed by the side's winning the División de Honor in the 1997/98, becoming the first newly-promoted team to win the title. The following season led to two more titles: the Ibero Cup and another Copa del Rey, adding to the club's distinguished history.
Two more titles followed in the 1999/2000 and 2001/02 seasons. In 2004/05 and 2005/06 the club finished as runners up in the league, but won the Copa del Rey twice, along with a new Ibero Cup and two Spanish Super Cups.
In the 2003/04 season, CR El Salvador participated in a European competition for the first time, debuting againstHarlequins in London, before going out in the second round - a first for a Spanish club - to the Italian team Rovigo.
In the 2006/07 season, they won all three titles at senior level: División de Honor, the Copa del Rey and the Super Cup title.
In the 2007/08 season, it was yet another excellent year for the team, as they 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)
Juan Murré
Uale MaiEsera LauinaJoe Mamea
Manuel SerranoJaime NavaJulio ÁlvarezPablo FeijooCarlos SoutoSergio SoutoIván CriadoJavier MirandaSalé Ibarra"Toche"César Sempere
James FaivaMatthew Bede Smith
Sam Katz (England Students International)
Gillies Kaka (capped byNew Zealand 7s)Jacob Kennedy (signs from Hawke's Bay, capped byNew Zealand Under 19)Andy Long (England international)Charlie O'Connell (signs from Canterbury, capped byNew Zealand Under 19)Joe McDonnell (New Zealand international)David Palu (Tonga international)
Regardt Van Eyk (former player fromMighty Elephants in theCurrie Cup)Justin Wilson (former player from Auckland Blues, Hurricanes and Chiefs in Super12/14. Capped byNew Zealand Māoris andNew Zealand 7s)●Hansie Graff (signed from SWD Eagles, also played for Bayonne and the Sharks.)
