he Dragons was set up by a Welshman (Mr. Edwards) who was a civilian working on the army base in Ratingen (home of two Royal Engineers squadrons, 14 Field Survey Squadrons and 3 Army Map Depot of the British Army of the Rhine). It did benefit from a lot of help from the army for its equipment, training place, playing kit, etc. At the start, the ratio of army players to civilians was about 12 to 3, moving towards 10 to 5 as the club became better known. In those years, the games played by the Dragons were mostly against army teams from the various bases of the region. We do not have so much information from these times, but we know that the Dragons have included in their ranks some players who became quite famous, one of them being Rodger James Arniel who played for the Dragons in 1967 and then played for the Leicester tigers, captained the Scotland team and also played for the British Lions.

The team was training on the old military training ground in Nagelstrasse, which is now the International School of Düsseldorf pitch.
When the army left around 1994, the remaining civilian Dragons managed to survive by joining the club Post-Sportverein Gerresheim. Some disagreement with this club pushed the Dragons to search for a new club (without soccer) and in 1998, they found the TuS Düsseldorf 1895 e.V. and could train in Tersteegen Strasse in Golzheim. Around 2000, due to a construction project in that area, the TuS Düsseldorf 1895 e.V. were offered the ground where the club is now established. In 2001, the Dragons trained near the Rheinstadion while the club was built and could use the new facilities from 2002 onward.

In the last 15 years, some players represented the club at the highest German level. The Ruhnau brothers, Ansgar and Jerome who played in the youth and senior teams of the Dragons made it to the national teams (15s for Ansgar and 7s for Jerome) in the years 2012-2014. Most recently, Felix Lammers, who started with the Dragons, reached 24 caps for the German national 15s rugby team between 2019 and 2026 and even captained it occasionally. He is now the sport director of the German 7s rugby.

In terms of achievement, the Düsseldorf Dragons were part of the top 3 regional teams in the beginning of the 2000s and advanced in the newly created 2. Bundsesliga in the 2010s, keeping a second team in the Regionalliga. The Düsseldorf first team reached the 1^st Bundesliga in the seasons 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. They then relegated in the 2^nd Bundesliga until 2022. During the season 2022/2023, the club decided to withdraw from the 2^nd Bundesliga and focus on the Regionalliga due to a lack of players. Since then, the club is competing at regional level and has won the Regionalliga in the season 2024/2025.

On the women side, the Dragonettes team was created in 1995 when a Spanish “au pair” in Düsseldorf named Begonia approached the men’s team and asked to create a women’s group. She was joined by the assistant of a dentist who played for the men’s team (Birgit Baltrusch) and other players. The women’s team was created. During a men’s game, they asked a player (Frank Frederking) to coach them. He accepted and thus became the first coach of the Women’s team. Since then, the team has trained, played at the same pitch as the Dragons and even participated in some tours (including the one in Reading in 1997).
The women’s team also saw some of its players reaching the German national level such as Jessica Neues, Carola Gleixner and Sophia Terwiel.

Nowadays, the club includes more than 300 registered members among which 110 children and teenagers aged under 18.