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

AUGUST 2022

Monday 08/08/2022

LATEST

2022 International Test Rugby Fixtures and Results Updated (8/08)
Rugby South America 3 Nations (8/08)
Final Rugby World Cup Qualifying Tournament (8/08)
2022-2023 European Championship Format Explained (8/08)
Test Rugby Results for 6 August Posted (8/08)
Web Site Archives Added for November 2021, February 2022 & March 2022 (6/08)

TEST RUGBY RESULTS – The Last Month

6/08/2022
South Africa 26, New Zealand 10 in Mbombela (Rugby Championship)
Australia 41, Argentina 26 in Mendoza (Rugby Championship)

30/07/2022
Uganda v Zimbabwe in Kampala (Victoria Cup)-postponed

23/07/2022
Tonga 44, Hong Kong 22 in Gold Coast, Australia (WCQ Repechage)

17/07/2022
Uruguay 26, Romania 20 in Montevideo

16/07/2022
Ireland 32, New Zealand 22 in Dunedin
England 21, Australia 17 in Sydney
South Africa 30, Wales 14 in Capetown
Argentina 34, Scotland 31 at Santiago Del Estero
Georgia 23, Portugal 14 in Kutaisi
Chile 31, United States 29 in Glendale (WCQ Americas)
Australia ‘A’ 39, Tonga 22 in Suva (Pacific Nations Cup)
Samoa 23, Fiji 20 in Suva (WCQ Oceania; Pacific Nations Cup)

10/07/2022
Georgia 28, Italy 19 in Tbilissi
Romania 30, Uruguay 22 in Montevideo
Spain 57, Canada 34 in Ottawa
Namibia 36, Kenya 0 in Aix-en-Provence (WCQ Africa; Africa Cup Final)
Algeria 20, Zimbabwe 12 in Aix-en-Provence (WCQ Africa; Africa Cup Playoff 3^rd/4th)
Uganda 18, Ivory Coast 17 in Aix-en-Provence (WCQ Africa; Africa Cup Playoff 5^th/6th)
Senegal 44, Burkina Faso 30 in Aix-en-Provence (WCQ Africa; Africa Cup Playoff 7^th/8th)

9/07/2022
Ireland 23, New Zealand 12 in Wellington
England 25, Australia 17 in Brisbane
France 20, Japan 15 in Tokyo
Wales 13, South Africa 12 in Bloemfontain
Scotland 29, Argentina 6 in Salta
United States 22, Chile 21 in Independencia (WCQ Americas, Playoff R1)
Argentina XV 52, Portugal 35 in Lisbon
Hong Kong 23, South Korea 21 in Incheon (WCQ Asia Final; Asia Cup Final)
Samoa 34, Tonga 18 in Lautoka (WCQ Oceania; Pacific Nations Cup)
Australia ‘A’ 32, Fiji 18 in Lautoka (Pacific Nations Cup)

TEST RUGBY FIXTURES AHEAD-The next month

13/08/2022
South Africa v New Zealand in Johannesburg (Rugby Championship)
Argentina v Australia in San Juan (Rugby Championship)

20/08/2022
Colombia v Paraguay in Barranquilla (South America 3 Nations)

24/08/2022
Paraguay v Brazil in Barranquilla (South America 3 Nations)

27/08/2022
Australia v South Africa in Adelaide (Rugby Championship)
New Zealand v Argentina in Christchurch (Rugby Championship)

28/08/2022
Colombia v Brazil in Barranquilla (South America 3 Nations)

3/09/2022
Australia v South Africa in Sydney (Rugby Championship)
New Zealand v Argentina in Hamilton (Rugby 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

SOUTH AMERICAN 3 NATIONS (08/08)

Competition between Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay
August 20: Colombia v Paraguay
August 24: Paraguay v Brazil
August 28: Colombia v Brazil

All matches to be played at El Estadio Olímpico Romelio Martínez, Barranquilla

FINAL RUGBY WORLD CUP QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT (8/08)

To be played in Dubai 6 – 18 November. Teams-USA, Portugal, Hong Kong & Kenya. Winner takes the final place in the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

2022-23 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP (8/08)

New format with an expanded competition. Russia is excluded. Ukraine unlikely to take part at lower levels.

‘There are two groups:
Group A
Georgia, Spain, Netherlands, Germany

Group B
Portugal , Romania, Belgium, Poland.

Group stage in February, final phases in March. So, 5 games just like before.’ (i.e as per last season).

Thanks to Bogdan_DC at https://t2rugby.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3181&start=25

INTERNATIONAL TEST RUGBY FIXTURES AND RESULTS

2022 International Rugby Fixtures and Results - Updated 8/08/2022
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 19/07/2022

Africa Table-Updated 19/07/2022
Americas North Table
Americas South Table
Asia Table -Updated 5/07/2022

Europe Table-Updated 19/07/2022
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