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Portugal played its first ever rugby international in April 1935 against Spain, losing by a single point, 6–5. [citation needed] They played Spain again the following year with Spain winning 16–9. Portugal had more regular competition from the mid-1960s, and won their first game in 1966, defeating Spain 9–3.
West Hartlepool RFC hung up their No. 5 jersey in memory of their lock John How who died of a heart condition in a 1994 league match. Waitete Rugby Club (affiliated to the King Country Rugby Football Union in New Zealand) retired the number 5 jersey and replaced it with 55, in honour of legendary club and national rugby hero All Black Colin Meads.
The Divisão de Honra Championships are organized by the Federação Portuguesa de Rugby (Portuguese Rugby Federation) [1] and currently consists of 12 teams. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The last placed team in the competition is relegated at the end of the season to the Campeonato Nacional de Rugby I Divisão (Portugal's second level of men's rugby union ...
The Portugal national rugby union team, nicknamed "Os Lobos," Portuguese for "The Wolves", is a second tier rugby union side representing Portugal. They first played in 1935 and now compete in the European Nations Cup. Portugal qualified for their first Rugby World Cup in 2007.
A normal rugby union team formation illustrating each of the positions and their respective numbers. In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards (wearing jerseys numbered 1–8) and seven backs (numbered 9–15). In addition, there may be up to eight replacement players "on the bench", numbered 16–23.
Portugal women's national rugby union team (sevens) Portugal national rugby league team This page was last edited on 18 December 2018, at 21:33 (UTC). Text is ...
It also shows the number of registered clubs playing in each country, official referees and the number of registered players broken down by gender and age group. In 2023, the total number of registered players increased from 5.82 million to 8.4 million. South Africa has the most with 804,279.
Campeonato Nacional de Rugby is the main rugby union competition in Portugal. This championship is organized by the Portuguese Rugby Federation. The competition is organized into three Divisions: CN Honra/Super Bock (8 teams) Campeonato Nacional de Rugby I Divisão (8 teams) Campeonato Nacional de Rugby II Divisão (4 groups of 5/6 teams each)
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