Seychelles national rugby union team

The Seychelles national rugby union team represents the Seychelles in international rugby union. The nation have yet to play in a Rugby World Cup tournament.

The national ground has an unusual distinction: it is formed from ground flattened from a massive landslide caused by a heavy rain from a cyclone. ^[1]

References

↑ Cain, Nick & Growden, Greg "Chapter 21: Ten Peculiar Facts about Rugby" in Rugby Union for Dummies (2nd Edition), p295 (pub: John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England) ISBN 978-0-470-03537-5

International rugby union teams

World Rugby High Performance Teams

Argentina Australia Canada England Fiji France Georgia Ireland Italy Japan New Zealand Romania Samoa Scotland South Africa Tonga United States Wales

Non-high performance teams that have appeared at the Rugby World Cup

Ivory Coast Namibia Portugal Russia Spain Uruguay Zimbabwe

Non-high performance teams with no Rugby World Cup appearances

The following teams are affiliated to World Rugby through their governing body, the French Rugby Federation

Teams that are not affiliated to World Rugby

Algeria Benin Burkina Faso Catalonia Central Africa Chad Congo Curaçao Democratic Republic of the Congo Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Egypt Estonia Gabon Gibraltar Guatemala Jordan Lebanon Libya Macau Montenegro Niger Panama San Marino Slovakia St. Kitts and Nevis Turkey Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Qatar

Combination teams

African Leopards British and Irish Lions Pacific Islanders South American XV

Defunct teams

Arabian Gulf Commonwealth of Independent States Czechoslovakia East Africa East Germany Nyasaland (Malawi) Soviet Union West Germany Yugoslavia