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2007–08 Rugby-Bundesliga

Field	Value
name	2007–08 Rugby-Bundesliga
imagesize	185px
countries
champions	SC 1880 Frankfurt
count	5
relegated	none
prevseason	2006–07
nextseason	2008–09

| runners-up = | runner-up = The 2007-08 Rugby-Bundesliga was the 37th edition of this competition and the 88th edition of the German rugby union championship. The season went from 25 August 2007 to 31 May 2008, ending with the relegation final.

Overview

In 2007-08, eight teams played a home-and-away season with a final between the top two teams at the end, which was won by the SC 1880 Frankfurt. It was the club's fifth German title and its first in 83 years, having last won it in 1925. It was a rematch of the 2006-07 final, also played in Frankfurt am Main, which SC 1880 had lost to Heidelberg 15-23. Alongside the national championship final, the 2nd Bundesliga final was played as a curtain raiser for the game.

Last placed RK Heusenstamm would have been relegated but the league was expanded to nine teams for 2008-09 and no team had to drop down to the 2nd Bundesliga. This was decided on 19 July 2008 at the annual meeting of the German rugby association. The decision was made to expand the league to ten teams for the 2009-10 season.

Nominally, the eight placed team in the league would be relegated while the seventh placed team had to play the loser of the 2nd Bundesliga final for one more league place. The 2nd Bundesliga champion is directly promoted, which was the RK 03 Berlin in 2008.

The 2007-08 final was sponsored by the French bank Société Générale. It was not broadcast live on television but the Deutsches Sportfernsehen showed one hour of highlights the following Monday.

Bundesliga table

Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points for	Points against	Difference	Points
1	SC 1880 Frankfurt	14	12	0	2	561	195	366
2	RG Heidelberg	14	9	1	4	490	242	248
3	TSV Handschuhsheim	14	9	1	4	276	276	0
4	Berliner RC	14	7	0	7	301	340	-39
5	SC Neuenheim	14	4	3	7	204	236	-32
6	Heidelberger RK	14	4	3	7	228	274	-46
7	DRC Hannover	14	4	0	10	228	410	-182
8	RK Heusenstamm	14	3	0	11	241	556	-315

Relegated: none
Promoted: RK 03 Berlin

Bundesliga results

Results table

Club	SCF	RGH	TSV	BRC	SCN	HRK	DRC	RKH
SC 1880 Frankfurt	—	35-32	78-3	20-17	15-28	24-6	56-19	65-10
RG Heidelberg	16-19	—	44-16	33-8	35-3	26-32	83-23	43-12
TSV Handschuhsheim	24-26	18-25	—	28-11	12-6	27-8	16-0	25-15
Berliner RC	7-84	28-23	15-20	—	18-6	24-13	19-12	61-24
SC Neuenheim	0-21	15-15	3-6	8-21	—	3-3	21-13	47-12
Heidelberger RK	9-34	6-28	15-15	36-26	9-9	—	22-3	25-26
DRC Hannover	14-11	20-41	25-28	23-20	23-25	13-7	—	20-15
RK Heusenstamm	10-73	7-46	5-38	10-26	33-30	16-37	46-20	—

Key

Home win	Draw	Away win	Game not played

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Promotion/relegation play-off

2nd Bundesliga final

Relegation match

Final

Pen: Kupa (7) Con: Kupa Pen: Werle, Güngör Con: Werle

NZ Phil Stevenson

GER Rudolf Finsterer

2nd Bundesliga tables

South/West

Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points for	Points against	Difference	Points
1	ASV Köln Rugby	16	12	2	2	484	118	366
2	Stuttgarter RC	16	13	1	2	339	190	149
3	TSV Handschuhsheim II	16	10	0	6	377	276	101
4	SC 1880 Frankfurt II	16	8	1	7	415	245	170
5	München RFC	16	7	2	7	261	282	-21
6	StuSta München	16	5	1	10	238	405	-167
7	Heidelberger TV	16	5	0	11	253	377	-124
8	RG Heidelberg II	16	5	0	11	274	440	-166
9	RC Mainz	16	3	1	12	133	441	-308

Promoted to Bundesliga: none
Relegated from Bundesliga: none
Relegated from 2nd Bundesliga: none
Promoted to 2nd Bundesliga: Heidelberger RK II

North/East

Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points for	Points against	Difference	Points
1	RK 03 Berlin	16	14	0	2	714	158	556
2	TSV Victoria Linden	16	12	0	4	527	232	295
3	FC St Pauli Rugby	16	11	0	5	554	300	254
4	DSV 78/08 Ricklingen	16	10	0	6	504	265	239
5	SC Germania List	16	8	0	8	313	337	-24
6	SV Odin Hannover	16	7	1	8	280	306	-26
7	USV Potsdam	16	6	1	9	350	503	-153
8	Hamburger RC	16	2	0	14	137	556	-419
9	Berliner SV 92 Rugby	16	1	0	15	97	819	-722

Promoted to Bundesliga: RK 03 Berlin
Relegated from Bundesliga: none
Relegated from 2nd Bundesliga: none
Promoted to 2nd Bundesliga: RU Hohen Neuendorf, SG Schwalbe/DRC Hannover II

References

[http://www.totalrugby.de/content/view/284/41/ SC 1880 Frankfurt vs. RG Heidelberg] {{in lang. de 2008 final preview, accessed: 29 December 2008
[http://www.rugby-journal.de/index.php/basis/meldung/societe_generale_endspieltag_ermaessigung_fuer_gruppentickets/ Société Générale Endspieltag: Ermäßigung für Gruppentickets]{{Dead link. (September 2018). de Rugby Journal - Information on the finals
[http://www.rugby-journal.de/index.php/basis/meldung/drt_beschliesst_reform_des_spielbetriebs/ DRT beschließt Reform des Spielbetriebs] {{Webarchive. link. (2008-09-17 {{in lang). de Rugby Journal - Reforms 2008, accessed: 7 January 2009
[http://www.rugby-journal.de/index.php/basis/meldung/pk_zum_societe_generale_endspieltag_video_und_stimmen/ Pressekonferenz zum Endspieltag] {{Webarchive. link. (2008-06-12 {{in lang). de rugby-journal, accessed: 30 December 2008

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