Friday 22 june, Saterday 23 June & Sunday 24 June 2012

History

Tournament History

 
The Beach Rugby Tournament finds its origin in recreational youth rugby games on the beach, in the early nineties. Then in 1997, the ‘Vlaamse Rugbybond vzw’ organized the first Belgian Beach Rugby Championship.

The tournament grew as a ‘one-day-tournament’, with the participation of more and more Belgian Rugby clubs. The event lasted in that format up till the 8 th edition, 2004.
In the 9 th edition, the tournament was finally spread over a whole weekend. This asked for an improved organization, which fortunately reached its purpose: a better tournament and an excellent atmosphere for both participants and visitors…
Since the 10 th edition, the event has become a complete festival with the organisation of an own camping site for participants/supporters. And then, we didn't even mention the Barbecue and breakfast yet!

In 2009 we came back to Oostende in more then 10 years. But due to the restricted area that was available, we had to go search for a new location in 2011. This time we arrived in Bredene.

But as we were still looking to build our tournament to an international event, we have decided to locate our tournament to Zeebrugge in 2012. At the beachfront of Zeebrugge we will have enough space to build an International Beachrugby tournament worthy to be on the International calendar. We dearly hope to have find the best situated spot on the Belgian coastline and will try to keep this place for the coming years.