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

MARCH 2023

Thursday 23 March 2023

LATEST

Test Rugby Matches Ahead to 22 April (23/03)
2023 International Rugby Fixtures & Results Updated (23/03)
2023 Africa Ranking Table Created (23/03)
2023 Europe Ranking Table Updated (22/03)
2023 World Ranking Table Updated (22/03)
Test Rugby Results 11-18 October Posted (22/03)

TEST RUGBY RESULTS – The Last Month

25/03/2023
Lithuania v Croatia in Siaulai (RE Trophy)
Malta v Cyprus in Paola (REC Conference 1; South)

18/03/2023
Ireland 29, England 16 in Dublin (6 Nations International Championship-Winner, also Triple Crown)
France 41, Wales 28 in Paris (6 Nations International Championship)
Scotland 26, Italy 14 at Murrayfield (6 Nations International Championship)
Ukraine 38, Sweden 15 in Split, Croatia (REC Trophy)
Georgia 38, Portugal 11 in Madrid (REC Championship-1^st & 2^nd places)
Romania 31, Spain 25 in Madrid (REC Championship-3^rd & 4^th places)
Netherlands 50, Germany 28 in Amsterdam (REC Championship-5^th & 6^th places)
Belgium 18, Poland 17 in Amsterdam (REC Championship-7^th & 8^th places)
Croatia 76, Bulgaria 7 in Sinj (Test Friendly)

12/03/2023
Ireland 22, Scotland 7 at Murrayfield (6 Nations International Championship)

11/03/2023
France 53, England 10 at Twickenham (6 Nations International Championship)
Wales 29, Italy 17 in Rome (6 Nations International Championship)
Switzerland 59, Ukraine 32 in Zagreb, Croatia (REC Trophy)

5/03/2023
Georgia 31, Romania 7 (REC Championship)
Germany 23, Poland 18 (REC Championship)

4/03/2023
Portugal 27, Spain 10 (REC Championship)
Netherlands 31, Belgium 19 (REC Championship)

26/02/2023
France 31, Scotland 20 in Paris (6 Nations International Championship)

25/02/2023
England 20, Wales 10 in Cardiff (6 Nations International Championship)
Ireland 34, Italy 20 in Rome (6 Nations International Championship)
Botswana 111, Eswatini 3 in Gaborone (Test Friendly)

19/02/2023
Portugal 38, Romania 20 in Lisbon (REC Championship)

18/02/2023
Georgia 41, Spain 3 in Torrelavega (REC Championship)
Netherlands 33, Germany 29 in Neckarsulm (REC Championship)
Poland 21, Belgium 15 in Gdynia (REC Championship)

TEST RUGBY FIXTURES AHEAD-The next month

1/04/2023
Sweden v Lithuania in Siaulai (RE Trophy)
Croatia v Switzerland in Markaska (RE Trophy)

14/04/2023
Luxembourg v Moldova IN TBC (REC Conference 1, North)

15/04/2023
Israel v Malta in Yizrael (REC Conference 1, South)

22/04/2023
Czechia v Luxembourg Havirov (REC Conference 1, North)
Israel v Slovenia in TBC (REC Conference 1, South)
Andorra v Finland in Andorra La Vela (REC Conference 2, North)

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

RANKING TABLES (10/03)

The links for Europe Ranking Tables 2021, 2022 have been revived

INTERNATIONAL TEST RUGBY FIXTURES AND RESULTS

2023 International Rugby Fixtures and Results- Updated 23/03/2023

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.

2023
World Table-Updated 22/03/2023

Africa Table-Created 23/03/2023
Americas North Table- coming soon
Americas South Table- coming soon
Asia Table - coming soon

Europe Table- Updated 22/03/2023
Oceania Table- coming soon

2022
World Table-Updated 26/02/2023

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

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

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