Women's international rugby union results summary

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Contents 1 Current playing records 2 Official rankings 2.1 IRB World Ranking 2.2 FIRA European Ranking

[edit] 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*  %  New Zealand 49 47 0 2 - 95.92  England 141 121 1 19 - 86.17  France 129 91 2 36 - 71.32  United States 61 40 0 21 - 64.52  Kazakhstan 41 24 0 17 - 58.54  Samoa 13 7 0 6 - 53.85  Scotland 114 60 0 54 - 52.63  Netherlands 84 41 0 43 - 49.41  Japan 23 11 0 12 - 47.83  Spain 85 39 1 45 - 46.67  Wales 119 45 2 71 1 39.83  Russia 29 13 0 16 - 44.83  Sweden 49 17 0 32 - 34.69  Italy 65 22 1 42 - 34.62  Canada 65 21 2 41 1 34.38  Germany 55 15 0 40 - 27.27  South Africa 11 3 0 8 - 27.27  Norway 16 3 2 10 1 26.67  Ireland 92 24 1 67 - 26.30  Australia 24 6 0 18 - 25.00  Belgium 20 5 0 15 - 25.00

10 matches or more - last 10 results   Pld Won Dwn Lst Unk*  %  England 10 10 0 0 - 100.00  New Zealand 10 10 0 0 - 100.00  Canada 10 7 0 3 - 70.00  Germany 10 7 0 3 - 70.00  Wales 10 7 0 3 - 70.00  France 10 6 1 3 - 65.00  Spain 10 6 1 3 - 65.00  Kazakhstan 10 6 0 4 - 60.00  Netherlands 10 6 0 4 - 60.00  Samoa 10 6 0 4 - 60.00  Russia 10 5 0 5 - 50.00  United States 10 5 0 5 - 50.00  Ireland 10 4 1 5 - 45.00  Belgium 10 4 0 6 - 40.00  Japan 10 4 0 6 - 40.00  Sweden 10 4 0 6 - 40.00  Australia 10 3 0 7 - 30.00  South Africa 10 3 0 7 - 30.00  Norway 10 2 0 7 1 22.22  Italy 10 2 0 8 - 10.00  Scotland 10 2 0 8 - 20.00

[*Unk=Matches were the results is currently unknown - see "Missing matches" below.]

Less than 10 matches   Pld Won Dwn Lst Unk*  %  Uganda 5 5 0 0 - 100.00  Catalonia 1 1 0 0 - 100.00  Zambia 1 1 0 0 - 100.00  China 4 3 0 1 - 75.00  Trinidad and Tobago 7 5 1 1 - 78.57  Guyana 5 3 1 1 - 70.00  Uzbekistan 3 2 0 1 - 66.67  Great Britain 7 4 0 3 - 57.14  Austria 2 0 2 0 - 50.00  Czech Republic 2 0 2 0 - 50.00  Fiji 2 1 0 1 - 50.00  Romania 9 4 0 5 - 44.44  Jamaica 8 3 0 5 - 37.50  Thailand 4 1 0 2 1 33.33  Hong Kong 9 2 0 6 1 25.00  Finland 7 1 1 4 - 21.43  Luxembourg 5 1 0 4 - 20.00  Singapore 7 1 0 6 - 14.29  Denmark 5 0 1 3 1 10.00  Brazil 1 0 0 1 - 0.00  Portugal 1 0 0 1 - 0.00  Zimbabwe 1 0 0 1 - 0.00  Kyrgyzstan 2 0 0 2 - 0.00  Rwanda 2 0 0 2 - 0.00  Tonga 2 0 0 2 - 0.00  Kenya 3 0 0 3 - 0.00 World XV 3 0 0 3 - 0.00  Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 0 0 4   0.00  Cayman Islands 4 0 0 4 - 0.00  Serbia 4 0 0 4   0.00  USSR 5 0 0 5   0.00

First internationals: by year   1982:   France;  Netherlands 1984:   Sweden 1985:   Italy 1986:   Belgium;  Great Britain 1987:   Canada;  England;  United States;  Wales 1989:   Germany;  Spain 1990:   New Zealand;  USSR; World XV 1991:   Japan 1993:   Ireland;  Kazakhstan;  Scotland 1994:   Australia;  Russia 1995:   Catalonia;  Portugal 1998:   Hong Kong 2000:   Samoa 2003:   Denmark;  Jamaica;  Norway;  Trinidad and Tobago 2004:   Austria;  Cayman Islands;  Czech Republic;  South Africa 2005:   Bosnia and Herzegovina;  Uganda;  Rwanda;  Thailand 2006:   China;  Fiji;  Guyana;  Kenya;  Singapore;  Tonga 2007:   Finland;  Luxembourg;  Romania;  Serbia;  Zambia;  Zimbabwe 2008:   Brazil;  Kyrgyzstan;  Uzbekistan

[*Ukn=Matches were the results is currently unknown - see "Missing matches" below.]

[edit] Official rankings

[edit] 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:  New Zealand
2:  England
3:  France
4:  Canada
5:  United States
6:  Scotland
7:  Australia
8:  Ireland
9:  Spain
10:  Samoa
11:  Kazakhstan
12:  South Africa

[edit] FIRA 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^[1] (based on results in 2007/2008) were:

1:  England
2:  Wales (up 2 from 2007/8)
3:  Ireland (up 3 from 2007/8)
4:  France (down 2 from 2007/8)
5:  Scotland
6:  Spain (down 3 from 2007/8)
7:  Netherlands
8:  Sweden
9:  Italy
10:  Russia
11:  Germany (up 1 from 2007/8)
12:  Belgium (down 1 from 2007/8)
13:  Romania
14:  Finland
15:  Luxembourg
16:  Norway
17:  Serbia

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