Vienna Celtic RFC

Vienna Celtic Rugby Football Club, also known as Vienna Celtic RFC and VCRFC, is Austria's oldest Austrian rugby club, located in Vienna's district of Liesing. The club currently holds the championship in Austria's top men's division (ARC Premiership, season 2022–23). Vienna Celtic RFC has a long-standing tradition of training youth players (boys and girls).

Founded on January 19, 1978, by a group of Rugby players from Great Britain and Austria, Vienna Celtic RFC is the oldest Rugby club in Austria. The "Celts" successfully competed their first game in 1978 against a combined team of players from the British and Australian embassies, the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, the American International School and U.N. staff.

Despite the prevailing political situation in the late 1970s, the club managed to find opponents from neighbouring countries and played successfully against Czechoslovak and Hungarian teams, i.e. Gottwaldov or Kecskemet.

Although facing insufficient infrastructural support from the local administration, the club managed to grow steadily and to establish itself as a driving force in the slowly growing Austrian Rugby landscape. The first Austrian Rugby championship, held in the season 1992/93, was won by Vienna Celtic. After long years of wandering around the city, in 2015 the club finally managed to find a new home in the Atzgersdorf Federal Sports Center.

A major concern of the club is the promotion of Women's Rugby. Thus, on October 4, 2020 - after more than 10 years without female representation of Vienna Celtic RFC's own women's team - the “Blue Ladies” wrote club history and played at a tournament again and won their first game.

The name "Vienna Celtic" refers to the common roots of the club's founders who came from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the former Noricum (the Celtic kingdom in the area of today's Austria). Additionally, the name incorporates the very appropriate meaning of the name, "Celts": Keltoi = the brave (pronounced "Keltic").

Based in Vienna's 23rd district, Steinergasse 12, the club's facilities today include an own clubhouse, a natural turf as well as an artificial turf pitch suitable for contact sports.

Vienna Celtic RFC consists of two men's teams (“First XV” and “Wanderers”), one women's team (“Blue Ladies”), the Touch Rugby Team (“Touch Brigade”), a veterans team ("Celtic Old Boys") and a total of eight youth teams for kids from 5 to 18 years, both boys and girls.