The ''HSV's'' Rugby department was founded on 16 October 1925 by
track and field athletes of the club and external rugby players. For the most part it has been stuck in the shadow of its local rival
FC St. Pauli Rugby. However, over the years
HSV managed to win the Hamburg championships twice: once in 1938 and another 40 years later in 1978. This feat earned the team a brief spell in the
Rugby-Bundesliga, the highest division of the sport in Germany. In the 1990s, the club closed its rugby department because of a lack of members. In March 2006, the department was reestablished and a first team formed, consisting mainly (90%) of players who had not played rugby before. In the last season 2017 the HSV-Rugby won the Championship in the Verbandsliga Nord. HSV-Rugby run up to the third Division. Now they play in the Regionalliga Nord. ==Current Season==