- Women's international rugby union results summary
Current playing records
The table below is based on results collected so far. Teams are listed in order of success rate, with matches where the result has yet to be traced discounted.
10 matches or more Pld Won Dwn Lst Unk* % Ruw|NZL 49 47 0 2 - 95.92 Ruw|ENG 145 125 1 19 - 86.55 Ruw|FRA 129 91 2 36 - 71.32 Ruw|USA 64 40 0 24 - 61.54 Ruw|KAZ 41 24 0 17 - 58.54 Ruw|SAM 13 7 0 6 - 53.85 Ruw|SCO 114 60 0 54 - 52.63 Ruw|NED 84 41 0 43 - 49.41 Ruw|JPN 23 11 0 12 - 47.83 Ruw|ESP 85 39 1 45 - 46.67 Ruw|WAL 119 45 2 71 1 39.83 Ruw|RUS 29 13 0 16 - 44.83 Ruw|SWE 49 17 0 32 - 34.69 Ruw|ITA 65 22 1 42 - 34.62 Ruw|CAN 68 22 2 43 1 34.33 Ruw|GER 55 15 0 40 - 27.27 Ruw|RSA 11 3 0 8 - 27.27 Ruw|NOR 16 3 2 10 1 26.67 Ruw|IRE 92 24 1 67 - 26.30 Ruw|AUS 24 6 0 18 - 25.00 Ruw|BEL 20 5 0 15 - 25.00 10 matches or more - last 10 results Pld Won Dwn Lst Unk* % Ruw|ENG 10 10 0 0 - 100.00 Ruw|NZL 10 10 0 0 - 100.00 Ruw|GER 10 7 0 3 - 70.00 Ruw|WAL 10 7 0 3 - 70.00 Ruw|FRA 10 6 1 3 - 65.00 Ruw|ESP 10 6 1 3 - 65.00 Ruw|CAN 10 6 0 4 - 60.00 Ruw|KAZ 10 6 0 4 - 60.00 Ruw|NED 10 6 0 4 - 60.00 Ruw|SAM 10 6 0 4 - 60.00 Ruw|RUS 10 5 0 5 - 50.00 Ruw|IRE 10 4 1 5 - 45.00 Ruw|BEL 10 4 0 6 - 40.00 Ruw|JPN 10 4 0 6 - 40.00 Ruw|SWE 10 4 0 6 - 40.00 Ruw|USA 10 4 0 6 - 40.00 Ruw|AUS 10 3 0 7 - 30.00 Ruw|RSA 10 3 0 7 - 30.00 Ruw|NOR 10 2 0 7 1 22.22 Ruw|ITA 10 2 0 8 - 10.00 Ruw|SCO 10 2 0 8 - 20.00 Less than 10 matches Pld Won Dwn Lst Unk* % ruw|Catalonia 1 1 0 0 - 100.00 ruw|ZAM 1 1 0 0 - 100.00 Ruw|UGA 6 5 0 1 - 83.33 Ruw|TTO 7 5 1 1 - 78.57 Ruw|CHN 4 3 0 1 - 75.00 Ruw|GUY 5 3 1 1 - 70.00 ruw|Uzbekistan 3 2 0 1 - 66.67 Ruw|GBR 7 4 0 3 - 57.14 Ruw|AUT 2 0 2 0 - 50.00 Ruw|CZE 2 0 2 0 - 50.00 Ruw|FIJ 2 1 0 1 - 50.00 Ruw|ROU 9 4 0 5 - 44.44 Ruw|JAM 8 3 0 5 - 37.50 Ruw|THA 4 1 0 2 1 33.33 Ruw|HKG 9 2 0 6 1 25.00 Ruw|KEN 4 1 0 3 - 25.00 Ruw|FIN 7 1 1 4 - 21.43 Ruw|LUX 5 1 0 4 - 20.00 Ruw|SIN 7 1 0 6 - 14.29 Ruw|DEN 5 0 1 3 1 10.00 Ruw|BRA 1 0 0 1 - 0.00 Ruw|POR 1 0 0 1 - 0.00 ruw|ZIM 1 0 0 1 - 0.00 ruw|Kyrgyzstan 2 0 0 2 - 0.00 Ruw|RWA 2 0 0 2 - 0.00 Ruw|TON 2 0 0 2 - 0.00 flagicon|World World XV 3 0 0 3 - 0.00 Ruw|BIH 4 0 0 4 0.00 Ruw|CAY 4 0 0 4 - 0.00 Ruw|SRB 4 0 0 4 0.00 Ruw|URS 5 0 0 5 0.00 First internationals: by year 1982: Ruw|FRA; Ruw|NED 1984: Ruw|SWE 1985: Ruw|ITA 1986: Ruw|BEL; Ruw|GBR 1987: Ruw|CAN; Ruw|ENG; Ruw|USA; Ruw|WAL 1989: Ruw|GER; Ruw|ESP 1990: Ruw|NZL; Ruw|URS; flagicon|World World XV 1991: Ruw|JPN 1993: Ruw|IRE; Ruw|KAZ; Ruw|SCO 1994: Ruw|AUS; Ruw|RUS 1995: ruw|Catalonia; Ruw|POR 1998: Ruw|HKG 2000: Ruw|SAM 2003: Ruw|DEN; Ruw|JAM; Ruw|NOR; Ruw|TTO 2004: Ruw|AUT; Ruw|CAY; Ruw|CZE; Ruw|RSA 2005: Ruw|BIH; Ruw|UGA; Ruw|RWA; Ruw|THA 2006: Ruw|CHN; Ruw|FIJ; Ruw|GUY; Ruw|KEN; Ruw|SIN; Ruw|TON 2007: Ruw|FIN; Ruw|LUX; Ruw|ROU; Ruw|SRB; Ruw|ZAM; Ruw|ZIM 2008: Ruw|BRA; ruw|Kyrgyzstan; ruw|Uzbekistan
[*Ukn=Matches were the results is currently unknown - see "Missing matches" below.]
Official rankings
IRB World Ranking
Currently the IRB does not compile a similar ranking system for women's international rugby. Where rankings are referred to by some boards these will normally be the finishing positions in the previous
Women's Rugby World Cup , which only takes place every four years and will only include those countries that qualified for the finals. Seedings for each World Cup are also influenced by these positions, but not entirely decided by them. The rankings based on the 2006 tournament are:1: Ruw|NZL
2: Ruw|ENG
3: Ruw|FRA
4: Ruw|CAN
5: Ruw|USA
6: Ruw|SCO
7: Ruw|AUS
8: Ruw|IRE
9: Ruw|ESP
10: Ruw|SAM
11: Ruw|KAZ
12: Ruw|RSAFIRA European Ranking
FIRA-AER do produce an annual ranking of European nations, based on previous season's FIRA and Six Nations competitions, for use in FIRA tournaments. As these will be based on more recent performances they can contradict the IRB list and also include countries not featuring in the World Cup-based ranking (such as Wales, for example). On the other hand they obviously only include European nations. The rankings for start of the 2008/2009 season [As described on the FIRA website [http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/] ] (based on results in 2007/2008) were:
1: Ruw|ENG
2: Ruw|WAL (up 2 from 2007/8)
3: Ruw|IRE (up 3 from 2007/8)
4: Ruw|FRA (down 2 from 2007/8)
5: Ruw|SCO
6: Ruw|ESP (down 3 from 2007/8)
7: Ruw|NED
8: Ruw|SWE
9: Ruw|ITA
10: Ruw|RUS
11: Ruw|GER (up 1 from 2007/8)
12: Ruw|BEL (down 1 from 2007/8)
13: Ruw|ROM
14: Ruw|FIN
15: Ruw|LUX
16: Ruw|NOR
17: Ruw|SER
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