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‘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

                                                                                                            MAY 2023

Wednesday 31 May 2023


 LATEST 

2023 Test Rugby Fixtures-Results Updated (31/05)
2023 Asia Rankings Updated (31/05)
2023 Europe Rankings Updated (31/05)
Friendly Test Match Result Posted-Jordan 10, Lebanon 0 (31/05)
Test Rugby Point Scoring for Europe Updated (30/05)
Test Rugby Results Posted for 27 May (30/05)

TEST RUGBY RESULTS – The Last Month

27/05/2023
Czechia 67, Israel 19 in Ricany (Conference 1, Playoff)

26/05/2023
Jordan 10, Lebanon 0 in Sidon (Test Friendly)-Just added

13/05/2023
Cyprus 35, Bulgaria 17 Nicosia (Conference 1, South)
Denmark 22, Norway 10 in Stavanger (REC Conference 2, North)
Montenegro 26, Turkey 24 in Bar (REC Conference 2, South)

6/05/2023
Latvia 22, Hungary 21 in Budapest (REC (REC Conference 1, North)
Qatar 35, Kazakhstan 10 in Doha (ARC Division 2)

5/05/2023
Lebanon 29, Jordan 5 in Amman (Test friendly)-Just added

3/05/2023
Kazakhstan 29, India 22 in Doha (ARC Division 2)

30/04/2023
Qatar 32, India 7 in Doha (Asia RC, Division 3, West)

29/04/2023
Czechia 43, Latvia 7 in Riga (REC Conference 1, North)
Bulgaria 39, Slovenia 19 in Sofia (REC Conference 1, South)
Andorra 26, Norway 6 in Andorra La Vela (REC Conference 2, North)
Serbia 40, Bosnia Herzegovina 12 in Zenica (REC Conference 2, South)

 

TEST RUGBY FIXTURES AHEAD-The next month  


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

FRIENDLY TEST MATCH (31/05)
May 26-Jordan 10, Lebanon 0 in Sidon


ADDITIONAL WORLD CUP WARM-UP FIXTURES (19/05)
July 14-Tonga v Australia ‘A’ in Nuku’alofa-First test match in Tonga’s capital since 2017.
July 22-Fiji v Tonga in Suva (Pacific Nations Cup)
July 29-Argentina XV v Namibia in Montevideo
July 29-Uruguay v Chile in Montevideo

Aug.5-Samoa v Tonga in Apia (Pacific Nations Cup)

Aug.5-Uruguay v Namibia in Montevideo

Aug.19-Uruguay v Argentina XV venue TBD

Aug.26-Chile v Argentina XV in Santiago

Aug.26-Ireland v Samoa in Bayonne

Aug.26-Italy v Japan venue TBD

Plus a number of venue confirmations

 

RUGBY EUROPE CHAMPIONSHIP: CONFERENCE 1 PLAYOFF (19/05)
27 May: Czechia (winner Conf.1 North) v Israel (Winner Conf.1, South) in Ricay, Czechia. The winner of this match will play Croatia (last place in RE Trophy) to determine who plays in REC Trophy 2023-24.

 

FRIENDLY TEST MATCH
May 5-Lebanon 29, Jordan 5 in Amman

ASIA RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP (ARC) DIVISION 2 (20/04)
Tournament to be held in Doha, Qatar. Teams-Qatar, India, Kazakhstan

April 30-Qatar v India
May 3-India v Kazakhstan
May 6-Qatar v Kazakhstan

https://www.asiarugby.com/results/asia-rugby-championship/asia-rugby-mens-division-2-2023/

 

 TEST RUGBY POINT-SCORING DATA UPDATING-Coming

 

 Tier 2-3 NATIONS POINT SCORERS. Compiled by Giles Etienne Updated to end of December 2022-Coming

Since Giles’ first point-scoring data charts were introduced in November 2020 he has worked on updating his records. These I will gradually revise as time permits. His original introduction is below.

‘I started to list the players who have scored in the 3rd 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 1st 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-Updated to the end of 2022-Loaded 30/05/2023

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

 

 

 

 

NORTH AMERICA

Bahamas

Bermuda

Cayman Islands

Mexico

Barbados

British Virgin Is

Guyana

Trinidad Tobago

 

OCEANIA

Cook Islands

Papua New Guinea

 

SOUTH AMERICA

Brazil

Colombia

Paraguay

Venezuela

Chile

Costa Rica

Peru

 

 

INTERNATIONAL TEST RUGBY FIXTURES AND RESULTS

2023 International Rugby Fixtures and Results- Updated 19/05/2023

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 5/04/2023
Americas North Tablecoming soon
Americas South Table- coming soon
Asia Table  Updated 31/05/2023

Europe Table- Updated 31/05/2023
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

 

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.

 

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!

 

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