RUGBYINTERNATIONAL.NET

‘GETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT’

 THIS WEB SITE'S MAIN FUNCTION IS THE RESEARCHING, COLLECTING, COLLATING, RECORDING AND UPDATING OF INTERNATIONAL TEST RUGBY RESULTS AND RECORDS

FEBRUARY 2025

Wednesday 12 February 2025


 LATEST 

2025 International Test Rugby Fixtures & Results Created (12/02)
Test Rugby Results Posted 8-10 February (12/02)
Test Rugby Results for 31/01, 1/02 & 2/02 Posted (5/02)
Future Test Rugby Fixtures to the End of February (31/01)
2024 World Rugby Ranking Tables Updated (12/01)
2024 Europe World Ranking Tables Updated (12/01)
2024 Africa Ranking Tables Updated (12/01)
2024 Rugby Americas North Ranking Tables Updated (12/01)

LATEST TEST RUGBY RESULTS-January-February

10/02/2025
Ireland 32, Scotland 18 at Murrayfield (6 Nations International Championship)

9/02/2025
England 26, France 25 at Twickenham (6 Nations International Championship)
Italy 22, Wales 15 in Rome (6 Nations International Championship)
Spain 43, Switzerland 13 in Yverdon-les-Bains (RE Championship, Pool A)
Morocco 26, Tunisia 12 in Tunis (Africa Cup Qualifying)

8/02/2025
Romania 31, Belgium 14 in Mons (RE Championship, Pool B)
Georgia 40, Netherlands 7 in Tbilisi (RE Championship, Pool A)

2/02/2025
Spain 53, Netherlands 24 in Madrid (RE Championship, Pool A)-corrected

1/02/2025
Ireland 27, England 22 in Dublin (6 Nations International Championship)
Scotland 31, Italy 19 at Murrayfield (6 Nations International Championship)
Portugal 40, Belgium 30 in Lisbon (RE Championship, Pool B)
Georgia 110, Switzerland 0 in Tbilisi (RE Championship, Pool A)
Andorra 31, Israel 28 in Andorra La Vela (RE Conference, Pool D)

31/01/2025
France 43, Wales 0 in Paris (6 Nations International Championship)
Romania 48, Germany 10 in Bucharest (RE Championship, Pool B)

FUTURE TEST RUGBY FIXTURES -The next month

15/02/2025
Netherlands v Switzerland in Amsterdam (RE Championship, Pool A)
Romania v Portugal in Botosani (RE Championship, Pool B)

16/02/2025
Germany v Belgium in Kassel (RE Championship, Pool B)
Spain v Georgia in Madrid (RE Championship, Pool A)

22/01/2025
Poland v Croatia in Gdynia (RE Trophy)

23/01/2025
England v Scotland at Twickenham (6 Nations International Championship; Calcutta Cup)
Wales v Ireland in Cardiff (6 Nations International Championship)

24/01/2025
Italy v France in Rome (6 Nations International Championship; Garibaldi Trophy)

Special thanks to Jon Duggan for his help in kick-starting the fixtures ahead on this website. His extensive World Rugby Data work below is available
via email 
jdu90291@bigpond.net.au  Please note it is not a website.

INTERNATIONAL TEST RUGBY FIXTURES AND RESULTS

2025 International Rugby Fixtures and ResultsCreated 12/02/2025
2024 International Rugby Fixtures and Results- Updated 12/01/2025
2023 International Rugby Fixtures and Results- Updated 2/03/2024
2022 International Rugby Fixtures and Results - Updated 31/01/2023

ARCHIVES 1996-2021 – Created 11/03/2024

 ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS

Country Test Rugby List of Results Updating-Go to alphabetical listing at top of the page-soon

 

 

 

 


Match Data Sheet Updating-Go to that Country’s list of results at top of the page-soon

 

 

GWC AND WORLD RUGBY RANKING TABLES

 GWC AND WORLD RUGBY RANKING TABLES EXPLAINED
Main Points
1. The GWC Rankings and World Rugby Rankings are completely different systems.
2. World Rugby only ranks member nations. GWC ranks all nations.
3. World Rugby ranks all member nations in one list. GWC ranks nations in continental
    groups, except the ‘World’ group. Nations can belong to both the ‘World’ group or a
    continental group.
4. GWC drops a nation from any list if it does not participate in test rugby in any one Calendar year.     .
5.  World Rugby has their own system of determining rankings. GWC basically operates like
    a tennis ladder. If you defeat an opponent, you go one above that opponent on the ladder.
   If you draw the match the lower ranked nation goes just below the higher ranked nation.
   If you lose you stay where you are.
6. GWC World ranking table can be more subjective. Any nation that participates in cross
    continental test rugby automatically goes to the World Table. Nations that participate i
    the following Tier 1/2 competitions are automatically included in the World table

(a)   6 Nations International Championship

(b)   Rugby Europe Championship

(c)    The Rugby Championship

(d)   Asia Rugby Championship

(e)   Africa Cup

(f)     Pacific Nations Cup

Plus-USA, Canada and Argentina from the Americas

 

 

2025
World Table – Created
Africa Table –
Created
Americas North Table –
Created

Americas South Table – Created

Asia Table – Created

Europe Table – Created

Oceania Table - Created

 

     2024
      World Table- Updated 12/01/2025
      Africa TableCreated 12 /01/2025
     Americas North Table-  Updated 12/01/2025
     Americas South Table- Updated 16/10/2024
     Asia Table -Updated 01/07/2024
     Europe Table-Updated 12/01/2025
      Oceania Table   -

 

2023
World Table-Updated 3/03/2024
Africa Table-Created 3/03/2024
Americas North TableCreated 12/06/2023
Americas South Table- Created 21/08/2023
Asia Table  Updated 14/07/2023
Europe Table- Updated 3/03/2024
Oceania Table- Created 10/08/2023

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

 

 GWC AND WORLD RUGBY RANKING TABLES ARCHIVES
 Coming soon

 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!

 TIER 2-3 NATIONS TEST RUGBY POINT-SCORING DATA
Compiled by Giles Etienne Updated to end of December 2022

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- Updated to the end of 2022-Up loaded 28/07/2024

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-Up 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- Updated to the end of 2022-Up loaded 29/07/2024

Bahamas

Bermuda

Cayman Islands

Mexico

Barbados

British Virgin Is

Guyana

Trinidad Tobago

 OCEANIA

Cook Islands

Papua New Guinea

 SOUTH AMERICA-Updated to the end of 2022-Up loaded 29/07/2024

Brazil

Colombia

Paraguay

Venezuela