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The rugby union match played between Scotland and England on 27 March 1871 was the world's first international rugby match. It is also officially the first international football match in any football code. The match was played at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh in front of 4,000 spectators.
The first men's international game of rugby football – between Scotland and England – was played at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, the home ground of Edinburgh Academicals, on 27 March 1871. (This was six years before the first cricket test match , one year before the first association football international and 24 years before the first field ...
The first two international sides to play against each other, the England–Scotland fixture is the second most-played international rugby union match as of 2023. Behind the Australia–New Zealand rivalry by some thirty-plus matches (not including XV results ), it is one match ahead of the England–Ireland match-up and the Ireland–Scotland ...
Rugby game between France and Germany at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Pierre de Coubertin, the revivor of the Olympics, introduced rugby union to the Summer Olympics at the 1900 games in Paris. Coubertin had previous associations with the game, refereeing the first French domestic championship as well as France's first international.
The first international rugby football game resulted from a challenge issued in the sporting weekly Bell's Weekly on 8 December 1870 and signed by the captains of five Scottish clubs, inviting any team "selected from the whole of England" to a 20-a-side game to be played under the Rugby rules. The notice itself was inconspicuous, being slotted ...
The first Welsh team to play an international rugby match, February 1881. The 1880–81 Home Nations rugby union matches were a series of international rugby union friendlies held between the England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales national rugby union teams. This season is most notable for the introduction of Wales as an international rugby union ...
No international rugby games and union-sponsored club matches were played during the First World War, but competitions continued through service teams such as the New Zealand Army team. [32] During the Second World War no international matches were played by most countries, though Italy, Germany and Romania played a limited number of games ...
The first ever international rugby football [1] game was played on the playing fields at Raeburn Place on 27 March 1871 between England and Scotland. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was won by Scotland. Scotland continued to play their home internationals in Raeburn Place, then at Inverleith Sports Ground until the Scottish Rugby Union acquired Murray's Field ...