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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.
The code was originally known simply as "rugby football". ... Spain is replaced with Italy to align the men's and women's competitions. 2008: ...
Rugby sevens has been played at the Commonwealth Games since the 1998 Games in Kuala Lumpur. [173] The most gold medal holders are New Zealand who have won the competition on four successive occasions until South Africa beat them in 2014. [174] Rugby union has also been an Asian Games event since the 1998 games in Bangkok, Thailand. In the 1998 ...
Rugby union is a growing team sport in Spain. As of 2019, there were 37,241 registered rugby union players in Spain, playing for 332 clubs in various divisions.The sport's governing body in Spain, the Spanish Rugby Federation (Spanish: Federación Española de Rugby), was founded in 1923.
The opening ceremony of the sports facilities and the stadium was on 12 October 1943, on the Spanish national holiday. Originally, the stadium was built for university sports, but in 1954 the Spanish national rugby union team used the stadium for a home match against Portugal, Spain won 23-0.
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List of Spain national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the Spain national rugby union team. [1] The Spanish Rugby Federation counts the match between a Spanish XV and France XV in 1927 as the first official international.
Rugby football match on the 1846 Shrove Tuesday in Kingston upon Thames, England. Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, [1] where the rules were first codified in 1845. [2]