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South Africa are the latest winners, having won the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France. The Rugby World Cup final is the last match of the competition. The winning team is declared world champion and receives the Webb Ellis Cup. [1] If the score is a draw after 80 minutes of regular play, an additional 20-minute period of play, called extra time ...
After the 2015 final, New Zealand became the first team to win the Rugby World Cup three times, and the first team to have successfully defended its title. South Africa became the second team to defend its title in 2023 and the first to win the Rugby World Cup on four occasions, as well as the first to win successive titles away from home.
The All Blacks reclaimed their place atop the rugby world with a narrow 8–7 win over France in the 2011 final. [36] The opening weekend of the 2015 tournament, hosted by England, generated the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history when Japan, who had not won a single World Cup match since 1991, defeated heavily favored South Africa ...
This all-time table compares national teams that have participated in the Rugby World Cup by a number of criteria including matches, wins, losses, draws, total points for, total points against, etc. The table also shows – among other things – the accumulated points for every team that has ever participated in the tournament.
2019 Rugby World Cup statistics; 2023 Rugby World Cup statistics; A. Rugby World Cup all-time table; H. List of Rugby World Cup hat-tricks; N.
Since the inception of the men's Rugby World Cup in 1987, a total of forty four rugby male union players have won the Rugby World Cup twice. [citation needed]Five Australia players – John Eales, Phil Kearns, Dan Crowley, Jason Little and Tim Horan – were part of both the 1991 and 1999 Wallabies squads.
The Webb Ellis Cup is the trophy awarded to the winner of the men's Rugby World Cup, the premier competition in men's international rugby union. The Cup is named after William Webb Ellis , who is often credited as being the inventor of rugby football .
1.2 Title win rate. 1.3 Biggest wins. 2 Individual records. ... The 2013 Rugby League World Cup final at the Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, England, drew a world ...