the defending champions were heidelberger rk who defeated sc neuenheim in the 2013 final to take out its ninth championship and fourth in a row. heidelberger rk remained unbeaten throughout the 2013–14 regular season, as it had been all throughout the 2012–13 rugby-bundesliga season, having last lost in the bundesliga on 1 november 2011, when "hrk" was beaten 26–24 by tv pforzheim.