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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.
Asia Rugby, formerly the Asian Rugby Football Union, is the governing body of rugby union in Asia under the authority of World Rugby.Founded in 1968 by eight charter nations, the Union today has 36 member unions in countries across Asia, stretching from Kazakhstan to Guam.
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 ]
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.
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.
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 ...
Originally known as the European Rugby Challenge Cup Qualifying Competition; current name adopted in 2016–17. Rugby Europe Super Cup - Third tier of European club rugby 2021. Copa Ibérica de Rugby — Annual competition between Spanish and Portuguese clubs. Anglo-Welsh Cup — English and Welsh clubs knock-out tournament. From 1971–2005 ...
The 1991 World Cup was the first to operate a qualification system, the 1987 WC having been invitation-only. In the qualifying stage, Asia was combined with Oceania and given two berths. Only four countries took part; Japan, South Korea, Tonga and Western Samoa (Australia, Fiji and New Zealand were automatic qualifiers). Played as a four-team ...