Wales women's national rugby union team

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Union	Welsh Rugby Union
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Captain	Claire Flowers
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The Wales women's national rugby union team are a national sporting side of Wales, representing them at rugby union. The side first played in 1987.

Contents 1 History 2 Results summary 3 Results 3.1 Full internationals 3.2 Other matches 4 External links

[edit] History

Wales Women have played as a team officially since 5 April 1987 when a Wales Women team, led by the recently retired Liza Burgess, took on an England Women side at Pontypool Park. Prior to 1987, Welsh players were selected to represent Great Britain with the first representative side featuring players from Wales running against France at Richmond Athletic Ground in 1986. Great Britain played as a team on several occasions until 1990, beating Italy in their final match. Wales have played England every year since 1987.

Wales hosted the first ever Women's Rugby World Cup in Cardiff in 1991 and since then they have participated in a further four of the five tournaments finishing fourth in 1994, their highest ever finish. The IRB adopted the competition in 1998, which was won by the New Zealand Black Ferns who also won the tournaments in Barcelona in 2002 Edmonton, Canada in 2006.

The Welsh Women's Rugby Union was created in 1994 charged with promoting and governing the development and practice of Women's Rugby in Wales; the other three home unions also took charge of their own administration effectively ending the function of the WRFU in the process. The WWRU also became affiliated to the Welsh Rugby Union at the same time.

The creation of four separate home unions for Women's Rugby in Great Britain also saw the introduction of the Women's Home Nations competition with the first set of internationals taking place in 1995. Wales Women's early years in the tournament saw victories only against Ireland Women and to date Wales Women have yet to beat England Women in the tournament or in an international. Wales Women also remain the only touring team from Wales to have won a Test series in South Africa, beating the Bokkies by two Test to nil back in 1994.

From 2004 to 2006 a policy of selecting only players based in Wales resulted in a series of poor results - and failure to qualify for the 2006 World Cup. When the policy was revered the team immediately recorded their best ever Six Nations performance, with a first ever victory over France in 2006 and wins over Scotland in 2006 & 2007 ending a ten year drought of wins against their Celtic opponents. The National 7s squad lifted the European 7s title in 2006, beating England in the final and hope to secure a place in the 2009 Rugby World Cup 7s in Dubai later this season. In 2007 Wales also re-entered the FIRA Championship, using the tournament to give tournament experience to its development team.

[edit] Results summary

(Full internationals only)

Rugby: Wales internationals 1987-

Opponent	First game	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Percentage
Australia	2002	1	0	0	1	0.00%
Canada	1991	8*	2	2	3	42.86%
England	1987	25	0	0	25	0.00%
France	1994	13	3	0	10	23.08%
Germany	1998	2	2	0	0	100.00%
Ireland	1996	13	10	0	3	76.92%
Italy	1998	8	8	0	0	100.00%
Kazakhstan	1994	5	3	0	2	60.00%
Netherlands	2001	3	2	0	1	66.67%
New Zealand	1991	1	0	0	1	0.00%
Russia	1998	2	2	0	0	100.00%
Samoa	2002	1	0	0	1	0.00%
Scotland	1993	20	8	0	12	40.00%
South Africa	2004	3	2	0	1	66.67%
Spain	1998	9	2	0	7	22.22%
Sweden	2007	1	0	0	1	0.00%
United States	1993	4	1	0	3	25.00%
Summary 1987-		119*	46	2	70	39.83%

*One result unknown

[edit] Results

See Women's international rugby for information about the status of international games and match numbering.

[edit] Full internationals

[13]
	1987-04-05	Wales	4-22	England	Pontypool Park	[1/1/1]

[20]
	1988-04-24	Wales	6-36	England	Newport RFC	[2/2/2]

[29]
	1989-02-12	England	38-4	Wales	Moseley RFC	[4/3/3]

[34]
	1990-02-11	Wales	12-18	England	Neath RFC	[4/5/4]

[43]
	1991-03-24	England	24-13	Wales	Waterloo	[6/5/5]

[48]
	1991-04-08 (WC)	Wales	9-9	Canada	Glamorgan Wanderers	[6/5/1]

[52]
	1991-04-10 (WC)	Wales	24-6	New Zealand	Llanharan RFC	[7/6/1]

[60]
	1992-02-09	Wales	10-14	England	National Stadium Cardiff	[8/11/6]

[66]
	1993-03-14	England	23-5	Wales	Northampton RFC	[12/9/7]

[68]
	1993-06-08 (CC)	Canada	Score unknown	Wales	Fletcher's Fields, Toronto	[7/10/2]

[71]
	1993-06-10 (CC)	United States	26-0	Wales	Fletcher's Fields, Toronto	[13/11/1]

[72]
	1993-06-12 (CC)	England	38-0	Wales	Fletcher's Fields, Toronto	[15/12/8]

[76]
	1993-12-19	Scotland	0-23	Wales	Burnbrae, Glasgow	[2/13/1]

[78]
	1994-02-13	Wales	10-11	England	Bridgend	[14/16/9]

[82]
	1994-04-11 (WC)	Canada	5-11	Wales	Edinburgh Academicals RFC	[15/10/3]

[85]
	1994-04-13 (WC)	Kazakhstan	8-29	Wales	Edinburgh Academicals RFC	[2/16/1]

[94]
	1994-04-17 (WC)	Scotland	0-8	Wales	Melrose	[6/17/2]

[96]
	1994-04-20 (WC)	United States	56-15	Wales	Gala	[18/18/2]

[104]
	1994-04-24 (WC)	France	27-0	Wales	Edinburgh Academicals RFC	[29/19/1]

[110]
	1994-12-20	Wales	0-5	Scotland	The Brewery Field	[20/10/3]

[111]
	1995-02-12	England	25-0	Wales	Sale RFC	[23/21/10]

[124]
	1996-02-04 (HN)	England	56-3	Wales	Leicester	[24/22/11]

[125]
	1996-02-18 (HN)	Wales	11-6	Scotland	Bridgend	[23/15/4]

[128]
	1996-03-03 (HN)	Wales	6-22	Ireland	Old Belvedere RFC, Dublin	[24/11/1]

[147]
	1997-01-12 (HN)	Scotland	10-0	Wales	Meggetland	[18/25/5]

[148]
	1997-01-26 (HN)	Wales	32-5	Ireland	Bridgend	[26/12/2]

[153]
	1997-03-09 (HN)	Wales	22-24	England	Worcester	[27/32/12]

[180]
	1998-02-15 (HC)	England	29-12	Wales	Waterloo	[39/28/13]

[182]
	1998-03-01 (HC)	Wales	12-22	Scotland	Cardiff	[29/27/6]

[184]
	1998-03-22 (HC)	Ireland	10-27	Wales	Old Crescent RFC, Rosbrien	[20/30/3]

[190]
	1998-05-02 (WC)	Spain	28-18	Wales	Amsterdam	[15/31/1]

[199]
	1998-05-05 (WC)	Russia	7-83	Wales	Amsterdam	[10/32/1]

[209]
	1998-05-09 (WC)	Germany	12-55	Wales	Amsterdam	[22/33/1]

[217]
	1998-05-12 (WC)	Kazakhstan	18-13	Wales	Amsterdam	[15/34/2]

[221]
	1998-05-15 (WC)	Italy	10-12	Wales	Amsterdam	[23/35/1]

[231]
	1999-02-07 (5N)	Scotland	23-0	Wales	Inverleith, Edinburgh	[35/36/6]

[233]
	1999-02-28 (5N)	Wales	26-0	Ireland	Venue unknown	[37/28/4]

[234]
	1999-03-05 (5N)	France	34-5	Wales	Savigny-en-Barley	[51/38/2]

[239]
	1999-04-10 (5N)	Wales	11-83	England	Swansea	[39/50/14]

[244]
	1999-04-19 (FIRA)	Spain	14-8	Wales	Belluno, Italy	[21/40/2]

[247]
	1999-04-21 (FIRA)	Italy	lost to	Wales	Belluno, Italy	[25/41/2]

[251]
	1999-04-24 (FIRA)	Wales	lost to	Kazakhstan	Belluno, Italy	[42/20/3]

[259]
	2000-02-04 (5N)	Wales	10-27	France	Swansea	[42/56/3]

[264]
	2000-03-05 (5N)	England	51-0	Wales	Newbury	[57/44/15]

[267]
	2000-03-19 (5N)	Wales	12-36	Scotland	Caerphilly	[45/44/8]

[269]
	2000-04-01 (5N)	Spain	18-10	Wales	Majadahonda,Madrid	[28/46/3]

[272]
	2000-05-08 (FIRA)	Scotland	28-6	Wales	Almeria, Spain	[46/47/9]

[275]
	2000-05-10 (FIRA)	Italy	24-25	Wales	El Ejido, Spain	[28/48/3]

[280]
	2000-05-13 (FIRA)	Wales	6-3	Kazakhstan	Vera, Spain	[49/23/4]

[295]
	2001-01-15	Wales	72-5	Netherlands	?	[50/46/1]

[297]
	2001-02-04 (5N)	Wales	0–18	England	Newport	[51/65/16]

[301]
	2001-02-18 (5N)	Scotland	22–0	Wales	Meggetland	[50/52/10]

[304]
	2001-03-16 (5N)	France	24–3	Wales	Nanterre	[67/53/4]

[307]
	2001-04-08 (5N)	Wales	0–5	Spain	Wrexham	[54/36/4]

[312]
	2001-05-06 (FIRA)	Scotland	13-3	Wales	Hazebrouk, France	[53/55/11]

[318]
	2001-05-10 (FIRA)	Ireland	10-15	Wales	Lille, France	[37/56/5]

[325]
	2001-05-12 (FIRA)	Wales	beat	Kazakhstan	Lille, France	[57/26/5]

[334]
	2001-10-18	Wales	7-21	Canada	Glamorgan Wanderers	[37/68/4]

[335]
	2001-10-21	Wales	11-12	Canada	Caerphilly	[38/69/5]

[337]
	2001-10-28	Wales	13-13	Canada	Ebbw Vale	[39/70/6]

[339]
	2001-11-11	Wales	17-20	United States	?	[58/39/3]

[342]
	2002-02-03 (6N)	Ireland	5–13	Wales	Thormond Park, Limerick	[40/59/6]

[344]
	2002-02-15 (6N)	Wales	0–20	France	The Brewery Field, Bridgend	[60/72/5]

[348]
	2002-03-02 (6N)	Spain	20–0	Wales	Madrid	[42/61/5]

[352]
	2002-03-23 (6N)	England	40–0	Wales	London Welsh	[80/62/17]

[359]
	2002-04-07 (6N)	Wales	3–31	Scotland	Stradey Park	[63/62/12]

[361]
	2002-05-13 (WC)	Australia	30-0	Wales	Barcelona	[14/64/1]

[368]
	2002-05-17 (WC)	Germany	0-77	Wales	Barcelona	[37/65/2]

[378]
	2002-05-20 (WC)	Wales	35-3	Italy	Barcelona	[66/37/4]

[387]
	2002-05-24 (WC)	Wales	14-17	Samoa	Barcelona	[67/5/1]

[392]
	2002-11-18	Wales	17-0	United States	?	[45/71/4]

[395]
	2003-02-15 (6N)	Wales	44–0	Spain	Cardiff Arms Park	[72/49/6]

[397]
	2003-02-21 (6N)	Wales	7–69	England	Cardiff Arms Park	[73/86/17]

[402]
	2003-03-09 (6N)	Scotland	9–8	Wales	Meadowbank	[70/74/13]

[403]
	2003-03-21 (6N)	Wales	17–0	Ireland	Cardiff Arms Park	[75/52/7]

[407]
	2003-03-28 (6N)	France	34–7	Wales	Paris	[84/76/6]

[426]
	2004-02-14 (6N)	Wales	10-30	Scotland	Arms Park, Cardiff	[77/74/14]

[429]
	2004-02-21 (6N)	Ireland	13-14	Wales	Thomond Park, Limerick	[55/78/8]

[434]
	2004-03-07 (6N)	Wales	0-22	France	Arms Park, Cardiff	[79/89/7]

[435]
	2004-03-20 (6N)	England	53-3	Wales	The Stoop, London	[96/80/19]

[439]
	2004-03-27 (6N)	Wales	7-12	Spain	Arms Park, Cardiff	[81/60/7]

[442]
	2004-05-01 (FIRA)	Ireland	7-24	Wales	Toulouse, France	[59/82/9]

[452]
	2004-05-05 (FIRA)	England	39-3	Wales	Toulouse, France	[99/83/20]

[455]
	2004-05-08 (FIRA)	Scotland	11-10	Wales	Toulouse, France	[81/84/15]

[459]
	2004-05-29	South Africa	5-8	Wales	Adcock Stadium, Port Elizabeth	[1/85/1]

[461]
	2004-06-05	South Africa	15-16	Wales	Loftus Stadium, Pretoria	[2/86/2]

[474]
	2005-02-04 (6N)	Wales	0-81	England	Arms Park, Cardiff	[87/105/21]

[476]
	2005-02-12 (6N)	Spain	10-10	Wales	Orense, Santiago	[65/88/8]

[479]
	2005-02-25 (6N)	France	48-0	Wales	Bondoufle, Paris	[97/89/8]

[485]
	2005-03-13 (6N)	Scotland	22-5	Wales	Murrayfield	[86/90/16]

[486]
	2005-03-18 (6N)	Wales	6-11	Ireland	Arms Park, Cardiff	[91/67/10]

[494]
	2005-04-30	Wales	9-24	South Africa	Ebbw Vale RFC	[92/3/3]

[512]
	2005-10-22	Italy	11-14	Wales	Treviso	[46/93/5]

[520]
	2006-02-04 (6N)	England	38-15	Wales	Old Albanians, St Albans	[114/94/22]

[524]
	2006-02-11 (6N)	Wales	5-0	Scotland	Sardis Rd, Pontypridd	[98/92/17]

[525]
	2006-02-25 (6N)	Ireland	7-14	Wales	Donnybrook, Dublin	[71/96/11]

[528]
	2006-03-10 (6N)	Wales	10-0	Spain	Sardis Rd, Pontypridd	[97/71/9]

[531]
	2006-03-17 (6N)	Wales	11-10	France	Sardis Rd, Pontypridd	[98/106/9]

[550]
	2006-05-06	Wales	16-11	Canada	Glamorgan Wanderers	[99/54/7]

[592]
	2006-11-18	Wales	31-7	Italy	Glamorgan Wanderers	[100/51/6]

[595]
	2006-12-03	Wales	24-0	Netherlands	Llanrumney	[101/72/2]

[597]
	2007-02-03 (6N)	Wales	10-5	Ireland	Taffs Well RFC, Cardiff	[102/80/12]

[601]
	2007-02-10 (6N)	Scotland	0-10	Wales	Dunbar	[102/103/18]

[603]
	2007-02-24 (6N)	France	15-0	Wales	Stade Guy Moquet a Drancy, Paris	[114/104/10]

[606]
	2007-03-11 (6N)	Italy	0-24	Wales	Rome	[55/105/7]

[609]
	2007-03-17 (6N)	Wales	0-30	England	Taffs Well RFC, Cardiff	[106/128/23]

[627]
	2007-04-28 (FIRA)	Netherlands	12-3	Wales*	Barcelona, Spain	[74/107/3]

[631]
	2007-04-30 (FIRA)	Sweden	18-8	Wales*	Barcelona, Spain	[44/108/1]

[634]
	2007-05-02 (FIRA)	France	17-10	Wales*	Barcelona, Spain	[119/109/11]

[636]
	2007-05-05 (FIRA)	Russia	14-38	Wales*	Barcelona, Spain	[25/110/2]

[651]
	2007-11-09	Wales	3-25	Canada	Cardiff	[111/65/8]

[655]
	2008-02-02 (6N)	England	55-0	Wales	London Irish	[133/112/24]

[658]
	2008-02-10 (6N)	Wales	23-6	Scotland	Taff's Well	[113/108/19]

[662]
	2008-02-24 (6N)	Wales	27-5	Italy	Taff's Well	[114/63/8]

[663]
	2008-03-07 (6N)	Ireland	10-19	Wales	St Mary's RFC, Dublin	[88/115/13]

[667]
	2008-03-15 (6N)	Wales	3-0	France	Taff's Well	[116/125/12]

[680]
	2008-05-17 (FIRA)	Scotland	10-27	Wales	Amsterdam	[112/117/20]

[689]
	2008-05-20 (FIRA)	France	10-18	Wales	Leiden, Netherlands	[128/118/13]

[700]
	2008-05-24 (FIRA)	England	12-6	Wales	Amsterdam	[141/119/25]

*Wales only sent its Development Squad to this tournament.

[edit] Other matches

[-]
	2002-02-16	Wales A	0-53	England A	Bridgend	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2002-03-24	England A	79-0	Wales A	London Welsh	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2002-04-14	England Academy	35-0	Wales A	Chester	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2003-03-23	Wales A	22-12	England Academy	Caerphilly	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2003-03-29	France A	5-25	Wales A	Paris	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2004-03-05	Wales A	5-8	France A	Llanrumney	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2004-04-25	England Academy	80-0	Wales A	Broadstreet, Coventry	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2004-12-08	England A	50-17	Wales	Clifton	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2005-03-20	England Academy	48-0	Wales A	Birchgrove	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2005-04-26	Wales A	10-17	South Africa	UWIC, Cardiff	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2006-02-11	Netherlands	27-0	Wales A	Amsterdam	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2006-05-02	Wales A	7-66	Canada	UWIC, Cardiff	[-/-/-]

[edit] External links

• The Welsh Rugby Union
• Bred In Heaven influential Welsh rugby discussion site
• Scrum V Welsh rugby discussion forum (BBC)
• Welsh rugby news from icwales
• Welsh rugby union news from Planet Rugby
• Welsh Rugby Fans New website dedicated to Welsh rugby fans
• Sports Council of Wales Welsh Sports Hall of Fame

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