High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rugby-Bundesliga 2008-09 was the 38th edition of this competition and the 89th edition of the German rugby union championship. Nine teams play a home-and-away season with a finals round between the top four teams at the end. The bottom two teams determine which club is relegated in a end-of-season decider. The season started on 30 August 2008 and finished with the championship final on 23 May 2009, interrupted by a winter break from early December to late February. The competition was won by the SC Frankfurt 1880, like in the previous season. The 2008-09 modus is somewhat different from the previous season. The competition has been expanded from eight to nine teams. The final, which used to be determined by the top-two teams of the regular season is now played by the two winners of the semi-finals which pair the first placed team against the fourth and the second against the third.