RUGBYINTERNATIONAL.NET

‘GETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT’

THE GAME OF RUGBY IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING WORLD WIDE. THIS WEB SITE'S MAIN FUNCTION IS THE RESEARCHING, COLLECTING, COLLATING, RECORDING AND UPDATING OF INTERNATIONAL TEST RUGBY RESULTS AND RECORDS

FEBRUARY 2023

Friday 3 February01 2023

LATEST

2022 Europe Rankings Updated (2/02)
2022 Americas South Rankings Updated (2/02)
2022 Asia Rankings Updated (2/02)
Test Rugby Fixtures Ahead for February (31/01)
2022 Africa Rankings Updated (31/01)
2022 Test Rugby Fixtures and Results Updated (31/01)

TEST RUGBY RESULTS – Back to November Last Year

4/02/2023
Wales v Ireland in Cardiff (6 Nations International Championship)
England v Scotland at Twickenham (6 Nations International Championship; Calcutta Cup)
Portugal v Belgium in Lisbon (REC Championship)
Romania v Poland in Bucharest (REC Championship)

10/12/2022
Cayman Islands 35, Mexico 14 in Grand Cayman (Test friendly)

26/11/2022
South Africa 27, England 13 at Twickenham
Australia 39, Wales 34 in Cardiff
Luxembourg v Hungary in Luxembourg City (REC Conference 1; North)-postponed to 2023

25/11/2022
India 82, Bangladesh 0 in Kolkata (Asia Rugby Division 3)

22/11/2022
Bangladesh 43, Nepal 12 in Kolkata (Asia Rugby Division 3)

20/11/2022
France 35, Japan 17 in Toulouse

19/11/2022
Ireland 13, Australia 10 in Dublin
England 25, New Zealand 25 at Twickenham
Scotland 52, Argentina 29 at Murrayfield
Georgia 13, Wales 12 in Cardiff
South Africa 63, Italy 21 in Genoa
Namibia 43, Canada 27 in Amsterdam
Tonga 43, Uruguay 19 in Bucharest
Samoa 22, Romania 0 in Bucharest

18/11/2022
Hong Kong 22, Kenya 18 in Dubai (Rugby World Cup Final Qualifying Tournament)
United States 16, Portugal 16 in Dubai (Rugby World Cup Final Qualifying Tournament)-Portugal go through to Rugby World Cup.
India 86, Nepal 0 in Kolkata (Asia Rugby Division 3)

13/11/2022
New Zealand 31, Scotland 23 at Murrayfield
Uruguay 21, Romania 16 in Bucharest

12/11/2022
France 30, South Africa 26 in Marseille
Wales 20, Argentina 13 in Cardiff
England 52, Japan 13 at Twickenham
Italy 28, Australia 27 in Florence
Ireland 35, Fiji 17 in Dublin
Georgia 20, Samoa 19 in Tbilisi
Portugal 85, Kenya 0 in Dubai (Rugby World Cup Final Qualifying Tournament)
United States 49, Hong Kong 7 in Dubai (Rugby World Cup Final Qualifying Tournament)
Tonga 39, Chile 10 in Bucharest
Spain 34, Namibia 15 in Madrid
Canada 37, Netherlands 25 in Amsterdam
Switzerland 45, Lithuania 6 in Lausanne (REC Trophy)
Czechia 39, Moldova 13 in Zlin (REC Conference 1, North)
Israel 22, Cyprus 21 in Larnaca (REC Conference 1, South)

10/11/2022
Solomon Islands 27, Vanuatu 15 in Port Moresby (Oceania Rugby Championship)

6/11/2022
Argentina 30, England 29 at Twickenham
Georgia 34, Uruguay 18 in Tbilissi
United States 68, Kenya 14 in Dubai (Rugby World Cup Final Qualifying Tournament)
Portugal 42, Hong Kong 14 in Dubai (Rugby World Cup Final Qualifying Tournament)
Papua New Guinea 22, Solomon Islands 18 at Port Moresby (Oceania Rugby Championship)

5/11/2022
France 30, Australia 29 in Paris
Ireland 19, South Africa 16 in Dublin
New Zealand 55, Wales 23 in Cardiff
Scotland 28, Fiji 12 at Murrayfield
Italy 49, Samoa 17 in Padua
Tonga 40, Spain 6 in Malaga
Romania 30, Chile 23 in Bucharest
Switzerland 69, Sweden 12 in Malmo (REC Trophy)
Lithuania 39, Ukraine 20 in Šiauliai (REC Conference 1, North)
Bulgaria 34, Israel 15 in Sofia (REC Conference 2, South)

2/11/2022
Papua New Guinea 39, Vanuatu 13 in Port Moresby (Oceania Rugby Championship)

TEST RUGBY FIXTURES AHEAD-The next month

5/02/2023
Italy v France in Rome (6 Nations International Championship; Garibaldi Trophy)
Spain v Netherlands in Madrid (REC Championship)
Georgia v Germany in Tbilisi (REC Championship)

10/02/2023
Iran v Qatar (Asia Div.3; West)-Rescheduled from October last year

11/02/2023
Scotland v Wales at Murrayfield (6 Nations International Championship)
Ireland v France in Dublin (6 Nations International Championship)
Belgium v Romania in Brussels (REC Championship)
Poland v Portugal in Gdynia (REC Championship)
Netherlands v Georgia in Amsterdam (REC Championship)

12/02/2023
England v Italy at Twickenham (6 Nations International Championship)
Germany v Spain in Heidelberg (6 Nations International Championship)

18/02/2023
Spain v Georgia in Torrelavega (REC Championship)
Germany v Netherlands in Neckarsulm (REC Championship)

19/02/2023
Portugal v Romania venue TBC (REC Championship)

25/02/2023
Wales v England in Cardiff (6 Nations International Championship)
Italy v Ireland in Rome (6 Nations International Championship)

26/02/2023
France v Scotland in Paris (6 Nations International Championship)

TOURNAMENTS

2021-22 Rugby Europe Men’s Senior Competitions Updated 13/05/2022

☼Tier 2-3 NATIONS POINT SCORERS. Compiled by Giles Etienne (30/04/2020)-scroll down for details

ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO FIXTURES

INTERNATIONAL TEST RUGBY FIXTURES AND RESULTS

2022 International Rugby Fixtures and Results - Updated 31/01/2023
2021 International Rugby Fixtures and Results- Updated 6/02/2022

ARCHIVES-1996-2020 – Created 8/02/2022

GWC AND WORLD RUGBY RANKING TABLES

Note: World Rugby, unlike the GWC Rankings, does not exclude a nation if it does not participate in
          international test rugby in any one year. The exclusions are in line with GWC Rankings policy
          and is not endorsed by World Rugby.

2022
World Table-Updated 25/11/2022

Africa Table-Updated 29/01/2023
Americas North Table
Americas South Table-Updated 2/02/2023
Asia Table -Updated 2/02/2023

Europe Table-Updated 2/02/2023
Oceania Table-

2021
World Table-Updated 6/02/2022

Africa Table -Updated 6/02/2022
Americas North Table -Updated 6/02/2022
Americas South Table -Updated 6/02/2022
Asia Table – Updated 6/02/2022

Europe Table -Updated 6/02/2022
Oceania Table -Updated 6/02/2022

Archive Created and uploaded 27.01.2017

YOUNGEST AND OLDEST TEST RUGBY PLAYERS

2015 Youngest and Oldest Test Rugby Players-Created 30.06.2016
2014 Youngest and Oldest Test Rugby Players-Updated 21.06.2016
2013 Youngest and Oldest Rugby Test Players-Updated 08.10.2015
2012 Youngest and Oldest Test Rugby Players-Updated 03.03.2013

2011 Youngest and Oldest Test Rugby Players

2010 Youngest and Oldest Rugby Test Players

TEST RUGBY RECORDS

This is another new section added to rugbyinternational.net. It is a case of add as I go when I get time.

Individual Player Records Updated 10.09.2013

COUNTRY DATA

This section hopes to cover each nation’s international rugby stats year-by-year.

This is a work in progress as I gradually upload the data for each nation. Click on the nation below and see where I’m up to.
If you can contribute to this data either by noticing errors or by adding to what I don’t have then contact me at rugint@bigpond.net.au
A special thanks to Stuart Farmer whose data on scrum.com for the main nations is, in most cases, my comparison.

Georgia’s test rugby data has been updated. The seasons 2012-13 to 2014-15 inclusive were added 12.02.2016

AUSTRALIA ARGENTINA BAHAMAS BARBADOS BENIN BERMUDA BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA BRAZIL CANADA CAYMAN ISLANDS CHINESE TAIPEI COLOMBIA DENMARK ENGLAND FIJI FRANCE GEORGIA GUYANA IRELAND ITALY IVORY COAST JAMAICA JAPAN KAZAKHSTAN LUXEMBOURG MADAGASCAR MALI MAURITUS MEXICO MOROCCO NAMIBIA NEW ZEALAND NIGER NIGERIA NORWAY PARAGUAY PERU PHILIPPINES PORTUGAL ROMANIA RUSSIA ST VINCENT & GRENADINES SAMOA SCOTLAND SENEGAL SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SOUTH AFRICA SRI LANKA SWEDEN THAILAND TOGO TONGA TRINIDAD TOBAGO UNITED STATES VENEZUELA WALES ZAMBIA

58 nations added. Just 45 to go! Well over half way!

TEST RUGBY POINT-SCORING DATA

Tier 2-3 NATIONS POINT SCORERS. Compiled by Giles Etienne Updated to November 2020.

Introduction

I started to list the players who have scored in the 3^rd unions opposing matches for more than 20 years now thanks to the emergence of internet.

But I had begun to be interested in statistics in rugby for much longer, actually as far back as I can remember. I must say that I do not know where it comes from, compiling the statistics in sport is not really in the French mentality, rather Anglo-Saxon. At the time (I was a teenager), I started making sheets about the players of the XV of France; today, I was able to develop the complete dictionary of all French internationals, with as complete data as possible and a photo of each one of them.

Then, gradually, I became interested in foreign players (I mean non-French!), first the All-Blacks, the British and other 1^st unions, then the 2nd unions, and finally the 3rd unions, as the number of countries involved in test-matches increased.

Data below are from a systematic compilation of all the match sheets and reports I have gathered since 2001 (but quite complete only from 2011), plus various books, booklets, annuals and Unions web pages. I would like here to pay tribute for the work done by the continental associations and World Rugby to publish the match sheets; Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania; Americas (mostly South America) are still far behind for that. And many thanks also to everyone around the world who has the patience and kindness to respond to my requests.

These data are indicative (a lot of match sheets were incomplete or aberrant, and there are quite often discrepancies between newspapers reports on the same match), but fairly representative I think so. For the players of the years 2000~2010, the tries and point scored is probably by default, due to lack of data, except for some countries that at some times have published (website, booklets) complete historical statistics (such as Sweden, Malta, Latvia, Luxembourg, Hungary, etc. ...).

Giles Etienne

AFRICA

Algeria	Kenya	Niger	Tanzania
Botswana	Madagascar	Nigeria	Tunisia
Burkina Faso	Mali	Reunion	Uganda
Ghana	Mauritius	Rwanda	Zambia
Ivory Coast	Morocco	Senegal	Zimbabwe

ASIA

Arabian Gulf	Kazakhstan	Singapore	Taiwan
Hong Kong	Malaysia	South Korea	Thailand
India	Philippines	Sri Lanka	United Arab Emirates

EUROPE

Andorra	Denmark	Lithuania	Serbia
Austria	Finland	Luxembourg	Slovakia
Belgium	Germany	Malta	Slovenia
Bosnia-Herzeg.	Greece	Moldova	Spain
Bulgaria	Hungary	Netherlands	Sweden
Croatia	Israel	Norway	Switzerland
Cyprus	Latvia	Poland	Ukraine
Czechia