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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.
Each member country must also be a member of one of the six regional unions into which the world is divided: Africa, North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and Oceania. [6] World Rugby was founded as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) in 1886 by Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with England joining in 1890. [7]
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.
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 ...
Craven Week — Annual South Africa schools competition; Bingham Cup — Held every two years, this is the largest international gay rugby tournament and honours 9/11 hero, Mark Bingham; Rugby union at the Maccabiah Games: representative XVs from various countries have been taking part in the Maccabiah Games since 1981. Mad River/Stowe 15's ...
Rugby Africa is the administrative body for rugby union within the continent of Africa under the authority of World Rugby, which is the world governing body of rugby union. As of 2018 [update] , Rugby Africa has 37 member nations and runs several rugby tournaments for national teams, including the Africa Cup which is the main 15-a-side ...
Rugby union's Lions tour of South Africa. The notorious '99' call. 1975: Wales and England field separate teams in the Rugby League World Cup, played over several months in both hemispheres. Australia takes the trophy by finishing one point ahead of England in the final league table. 1976: New Zealand rugby union tour of South Africa.