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Rugby football match on the 1846 Shrove Tuesday in Kingston upon Thames, England. Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, [1] where the rules were first codified in 1845. [2]
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand.
Premiership Women's Rugby is the top tier of the women's English rugby union domestic league system run by the Rugby Football Union. The league was created mainly from teams in the Women's Premiership. Its first season began on 16 September 2017.
Rugby league: 13 players per side Masters Rugby League; Mod league; Rugby league nines; Rugby league sevens; Touch (sport) Wheelchair rugby league; Both codes Tag rugby; Rugby fives, a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court; Underwater rugby, an underwater sport played in a swimming pool and named after rugby football ...
This category is for articles about rugby football prior to the 1895 schism that split the sport into the modern games of rugby league and rugby union and for articles about sports that derive from first laws of rugby drawn up in 1871.
The Rugby Football League (RFL) is the governing body for rugby league in England. [4] Founded in 1895 as the Northern Rugby Football Union following 22 clubs resigning from the Rugby Football Union , it changed its name in 1922 to the Rugby Football League.
World Rugby was founded as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) in 1886 by Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with England joining in 1890. [7] Australia , New Zealand and South Africa became full members in 1949. [ 7 ]
One of the most important rugby union tournaments in the world, the Six Nations Championship is broadcast in various countries in addition to the six participating nations. [ 35 ] In the United Kingdom, the BBC has long covered the tournament, broadcasting all matches (apart from England home matches between 1997 and 2002, which were shown live ...