The Debrecen Rugby Football Club was founded by an idea of Michele Catarinella and Colm O'Keane. Both former professional rugby players that met during their medical studies at Debrecen University. Soon after creation in the 1st October 2012, the team has always had a great approval among students. The first team was playing rugby XV and was initially called SPQR Debrecen Rugby Student Association
and the shirts were Jamaican colors:
The first ever Debrecen Rugby Team
1 Kevin Foley
2 Charalambos Hadjievangelou
3 Siju Michael
4 Will Pogacsas
5 Gerard Francis Mario Louis
6 Behrang Mostaan
7 Edward Chen
8 Bo Taugbøl
9 Michele Catarinella (C)
10 Bjarni Blomsterberg
11 Prabhu Patil
12 Andrew Laurence Hurcomb
13 Paul Sherrat
14 Balazs Hollos
15 Sean Lehane
Soon the organization of international friendly matches, of which one happened on the 3rd May 2013 against Terracina Rugby an Italian club. After that event the playing shirts were changed to black and yellow, with social and technical sponsors:
Kaga Kinai Etterem - Main
Bakelit Music Cafe - Main
Afrobeat - Main
Minor sponsors deal have been withdrawn
In 2015 the club was renamed into "Debrecen Rugby Football Club". After the rugby manager trainings in Zanka, Michele Catarinella, Behrang Mostaan and Noemi Aradi, changed strategy of trainings and set the field game to be rugby 7s rather than rugby XV. Now the club still honours the discipline of rugby XV at least once a year with friendly matches and throughout the year participate to the Hungarian National University 7s league for bureaucratic problem with the physical check up required to practice professional XV rugby. From 2015 the team management was passed from Michele Catarinella to Behrang Mostaan of which:
-Male rugby 7s first squad,
-Female rugby 7s,
-Juniores. And the management of some events were still organized by the old direction.
