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The Sweden national rugby union team represents Sweden in rugby union. Rugby has been played in Sweden since 1933, the first full international being played in 1949 against Denmark. The country celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2008. Sweden has been a member union of World Rugby since 1988 and is one of the 48 members of Rugby Europe.
The Allsvenskan is the highest tier of the national rugby union competition in Sweden. The first Swedish championship took place in 1943 and the current champions (2016) is Stockholm Exiles. Under the Allsvenskan is two levels of regional competition. New for the 2010 season is a national rugby sevens series that will be played over multiple ...
The Swedish Rugby Union (Swedish: Svenska Rugbyförbundet) is the governing body for rugby union in Sweden. The Stockholm Rugby Union (Swedish: Stockholms Rugbyförbund) was founded on 29 May 1932. It is unclear exactly when it became the "Swedish Rugby Union", but it is supposed to have occurred sometime between 1932 and 1936. [1]
Sweden are considered one of the pioneers of women's test rugby. In 2017, they returned to the international 15s scene after a three-year absence. [2] Sweden won the 2021–2022 Rugby Europe Women's Trophy. [3] [4] In the opening match of the 2024 Rugby Europe Women's Championship they lost to the Netherlands, 59–0. [5]
The Allsvenskan is the highest tier of the national professional rugby union competition in Sweden. The first Swedish championship took place in 1943. The first Swedish championship took place in 1943.
The 2024–25 Rugby Europe Trophy is the seventh season of the second premier rugby union competition for European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship which itself is a part of the Rugby Europe International Championships. The confirmed teams that are competing include Czechia, Croatia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland and Sweden.
Rugby union in Sweden; 0–9. 2019–20 Rugby Europe Women's Trophy; 2021–22 Rugby Europe Women's Trophy; 2023 Rugby Europe Women's Championship; 2024 Rugby Europe ...
The Sweden national rugby sevens team is a minor national sevens side. Sweden won the 2017 Rugby Europe Sevens Trophy to qualify for the 2018 Grand Prix Sevens.. Sweden competed in the qualifying rounds of the 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Catania, Sicily where they lost to Taiwan and failed to qualify.