It is part of a larger club, the Eintracht Frankfurt, which also offers other sports like association football, table tennis and basketball.
[2] Formed in 1923,[2] the team, for the most part of its history, stood and stands in the shadow of local rival SC 1880 Frankfurt.
[3] The clubs rugby department achieved its first national success in 1940, when it reached the German championship final, losing 6-19 to FV 1897 Linden.
In the 2012-13 season the club competed in the 2nd Bundesliga, finishing in the lower half of the table and qualifying for the play-offs for the Liga-Pokal.
In the 2014–15 season the club finished fifth in the south-west Liga-Pokal group but was knocked out in the quarter-finals of the play-offs after a 48–40 loss to RC Dresden.