Timișoara Saracens
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| Full name | Timișoara Saracens Rugby Club Municipal Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara |
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| Founded | 1949 |
| Location | Timișoara, Romania |
| Ground(s) | Stadionul Dan Păltinișanu, Stadion Gheorghe Rascanu (Capacity: 32,972) |
| President | Alexandru Ilie |
| Coach(es) |
 Grainger Heikell Sosene Anesi
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| League(s) | SuperLiga CEC Bank |
| 2015 | 1st (Champions) |
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Timișoara Saracens RCM UVT is a Romanian professional rugby union club from Timișoara, which plays in the SuperLiga CEC Bank, the first division of Romanian rugby. The team first won the championship in 1972, becoming the first club outside Bucharest to achieve this performance. The team is colloquially known as "Universitatea" Timișoara as it has historical ties with the University of Timișoara. Grainger Heikell is the current head coach of Timișoara Saracens. Since 2014 the club is a partner of London-based Saracens rugby club.
In October 1949, CSUT (Club Sportiv Universitar Timișoara) played its first match in the city of Sighişoara against the local team, match that was won by CSUT with 34–0, the team from Timișoara having the following line-up: Liteanu, Antonescu, Popa, Nistor, Haller, Onciul, Zomborian, Georgescu (player-coach), Dăncescu, Gurti, Kalincov, Barla, Baruch, Balios, Melinte.
Starting with the year 1966 the team changes its name from CSUT to Universitatea Timișoara; Mitică Antonescu was in charge of the team at that point. The year 1966 in the start of the ascension for the team from Timișoara. In the 1968–69 championship the team occupies 5th place, in the 1969–70 championship the 3ed place, in the 1970–71 championship the 5th place and in the 1971–72 championship, Universitatea Timișoara – after 58 years of supremacy from the teams from Bucharest – manages to bring the national title to Timișoara.
It is said that on 12 June 1972 (the day the team won the national title) the bells of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Timișoara rang one time more than usual, and on the second day at the gate of the boarding house where the majority of the rugby players of Universitatea Timișoara were living, on a board the following could be read:: “Trecătorule, oprește-te un moment și înclină-te în fața ușii caminului unde trăiesc perlele rugby-ului românesc (translation: Passer-by, stop for a moment and kneel in front of the door of the boarding house where the pearls of Romanian rugby are living)”, the author of it being, at that time student, Nicolae Benga. Here are the artisans of this beautiful achievement: Duţă, Szasz, Cândrea, Peter, Suciu, Gheţu, Iacob, Ceauş, Tătucu, Nedelcu, Vollman, Rășcanu, Priess, Ionică, Ene, Malancu, Neiss, Popovici, Vlad, Ioniţă, Arsene.
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