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The organisation changed its name again in 2014 to Rugby Europe. [citation needed] Until its eventual merger with the IRB, Rugby Europe was the most multinational rugby organisation in the world, partly because the IRB had concentrated on the Five Nations, Tri Nations, and from 1987 the Rugby World Cup, competitions.
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand.
This list shows each country which has a union affiliated to World Rugby, the international governing body for rugby union.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.
Rugby Europe is not responsible for the organisation of the Six Nations Championship, which is run by the national unions of its participating nations. [1] The next level of international rugby, played by tier-2 and tier-3 European countries, is the Rugby Europe International Championships. It is made up of five levels or divisions ...
Originally known as the European Rugby Challenge Cup Qualifying Competition; current name adopted in 2016–17. Rugby Europe Super Cup - Third tier of European club rugby 2021. Copa Ibérica de Rugby — Annual competition between Spanish and Portuguese clubs. Anglo-Welsh Cup — English and Welsh clubs knock-out tournament. From 1971–2005 ...
Europe is the birth place of rugby league with the game originating in Northern England. The sport is played at amateur level in most European countries although only England, Wales, and France have professional or semi-professional clubs. These three countries were the original members of the Rugby League European Championship.
Category: Rugby union by continent and country. 1 language. ... Rugby union in Europe by country (50 C) N. Rugby union in North America by country (19 C) O.
After rugby union was declared open to professionalism in 1995, they were developed into professional teams. [12] Today, they compete in the United Rugby Championship (URC) alongside teams from Scotland, Wales, Italy and South Africa, [13] and the European Rugby Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup, which also include teams from France and ...