The Club Universitario de Rosario (Uni Rosario) is a multi-sports club in Rosario

Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. Today the club is mostly famous for their rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 team.

History

Club Universitario was founded in 1924 as a sports club for the students of Rosario's four universities. Athletics would become the first sport practiced at the club, later followed by fencing

Fencing

Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

, association football, swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

, rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 and field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

.

Rugby

Rosario is a hotbed of rugby in Argentina and Club Universitario has always had to contend with powerhouses such as Plaza

Club Atlético del Rosario

Club Atlético del Rosario is a sports club from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. The sports currently practised at the club are rugby union, field hockey, cricket and tennis.-History:...

, Jockey

Jockey Club de Rosario (rugby)

Jockey Club de Rosario is a rugby union team based in Rosario, Argentina, part of the Jockey Club de Rosario sports club. The tem is member of the Unión de Rugby de Rosario and also one of the most successful teams in Rosario, along with Atlético del Rosario and Duendes.-Titles:*Nacional de Clubes:...

 and Duendes

Duendes Rugby Club

Duendes Rugby Club, is a sports club from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Although field hockey is the other sport practised, Duendes is more popularly known for its rugby union team.-Rugby:...

.

Universitario - and their main rivals GER

Club Gimnasia y Esgrima de Rosario (rugby)

Club Gimnasia y Esgrima de Rosario, or simply GER, is a rugby union team from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, which plays in the Unión de Rugby de Rosario league system and also takes part in the Torneo del Litoral...

 - had always been considered relative minnows in Rosario rugby but in recent years Uni have somewhat closed the gap with the big three, winning the provincial

Torneo del Litoral

The Torneo del Litoral is an annual rugby union competition in Argentina. The competition involves clubs from Rosario, Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, and is one of several regional competitions held in Argentina every year....

 title in 2005 and 2009.

Titles

• Torneo del Litoral
  Torneo del Litoral
  The Torneo del Litoral is an annual rugby union competition in Argentina. The competition involves clubs from Rosario, Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, and is one of several regional competitions held in Argentina every year....
  
  : 2

2005, 2009

• Torneo Regional del Centro: 2

2007, 2008

External links

• Official Site (Spanish)