The Home Nations Championship—the rugby competition that has now become the Six Nations Rugby Championship—was first played in 1883 among the four Home Nations of the United Kingdom, which consists of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales ...
Japan’s national rugby team had never played South Africa prior to the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Furthermore, few gave them much hope against any of the teams in their pool group. Japan had not won a Rugby World Cup match in over 20 years, while the South African rugby had twice been crowned champions.
A big change to rugby union's international eligibility rules has been approved by World Rugby. As of January 2022, a rugby player can now represent a different country so long as they meet two criteria ...
In 1871, England’s governing rugby body—the Rugby Football Union (RFU) —decided that rugby could not be played as a professional game, which meant that people could not be paid to play rugby. However ...
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