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 2022

Saturday 26/02/2022

LATEST

Test Rugby Results for 26 February Posted (27/02)
International 2022 Test Rugby Fixtures and Results Created (26/02)
Europe 2022 Rugby Ranking Tables Created (26/02)
World 2022 Rugby Ranking Tables Created (25/02)
Rugby Europe 2021-22 Senior Men’s Competitions Updated (25/02)
Test Rugby Results for 12 & 13 February Posted (14/02)

TEST RUGBY RESULTS – The Last Month

27/02/2022
Ireland v Italy in Dublin (6 Nations International Championship)
Spain v Romania in Madrid (WCQ & RE Championship)
Georgia v Russia in Tbilisi (WCQ & RE Championship)-postponed

26/02/2022
France 36, Scotland 17 at Murrayfield (6 Nations International Championship)
England 23, Wales 19 at Twickenham (6 Nations International Championship)
Portugal 59, Netherlands 3 in Lisbon (WCQ & RE Championship)

19/02/2022
Belgium 33, Germany 26 in Heidelberg (RE Trophy)

13/02/2022
England 33, Italy 0 in Rome (6 Nations International Championship)

12/02/2022
Wales 20, Scotland 17 in Cardiff (6 Nations International Championship)
France 30, Ireland 24 in Paris (6 Nations International Championship)
Spain 41, Russia 27 in Sochi (WCQ & RE Championship)
Georgia 72, Netherlands 10 in Amsterdam (WCQ & RE Championship)
Romania 37, Portugal 27 in Bucharest (WCQ & RE Championship
Belgium v Ukraine in Brussels (RE Trophy)-Forfeit by Ukraine-COVID cases in their camp-28-0 to Belgium.

6/02/2022
France 37, Italy 10 in Paris (6 Nations International Championship)
Georgia 25, Portugal 25 in Tbilisi (WCQ & RE Championship)

5/02/2022
Ireland 29, Wales 7 in Dublin (6 Nations International Championship)
Scotland 20, England 17 at Murrayfield (6 Nations International Championship; Calcutta Cup)
Romania 34, Russia 25 in Bucharest (WCQ & RE Championship)
Spain 43, Netherlands 0 in Madrid (WCQ & RE Championship)

TEST RUGBY FIXTURES AHEAD

TOURNAMENTS

2021-22 Rugby Europe Men’s Senior Competitions Updated 25/02/2022

☼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 26/02/2022
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-Created 25/02/2022

Africa Table
Americas North Table
Americas South Table
Asia Table

Europe Table – Created 26/02/2022
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

2020
World Table - updated 19/07/2021

Europe Table -Created 26/07/2021
Africa Table – No fixtures 2020
Americas North Table - No fixtures 2020
Americas South Table - No fixtures 2020
Oceania Table - No fixtures 2020
Asia Table – No fixtures 2020

2019
World Table – Updated 19/11/2019
Africa Table - Updated 25/09/2019
Asia Table – Updated 30/06/2019
Europe Table – Updated 17/11/2019
Americas North Table – Updated 29/10/2019

2018
World Table-Updated 17/03/2019

2017 GWC Rugby Rankings
2016 GWC Rugby Rankings
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