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Gaelic football is especially vulnerable to code-switching, for reasons outlined by rugby union journalist Hugh Farrelly in 2009: The parochialism that is the GAA's greatest strength (every village in Ireland has a local team) is also its Achilles heel for, with no viable international outlet, the Association is vulnerable to other sports.
International rugby union eligibility rules; List of dual-code rugby internationals; List of players who have converted from one football code to another; List of sportspeople who competed for more than one nation
Players have successfully made the transition to top levels in both codes, and because rugby union is played at the professional level, there is a financial lure for players to switch from Gaelic football to rugby union. A small number have made the journey the other way. Both codes are organised on an all-Ireland basis, with provincial bodies.
The International Rugby League allowed qualifying players to pick tier one and two teams that they could switch between. Tonga then reached the Rugby League World Cup semifinals for the first time ...
A dual-code rugby international is a rugby footballer who has played at the senior international level in both codes of rugby, 13-a-side rugby league and 15-a-side rugby union. Rugby league started as a breakaway version of rugby in Northern England in 1895 and in New Zealand and Australia in 1908, and consequently a number of early top-class ...
Led by Cal and Stanford, a number of universities of the West Coast took a different path and did not play rugby union alongside American football BUT instead eliminated America football and changed their game to Rugby union. [10] [11] Other schools that made the switch included Nevada, St. Mary's, Santa Clara, and USC (in 1911). [11]
This is a list of player transfers involving Premiership Rugby teams before or during the 2024–25 season. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The list consists of deals that have been confirmed, and are for players who are moving either from or to a rugby union team which competed in the Premiership during the 2023–24 season . [ 3 ]
World Rugby was founded, as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB), [2] in 1886. Until the 1990s, a player needed to be born in a country or have a parent or grandparent born in a country, to be eligible to play for that country's national team.