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The Wales national rugby union team (Welsh: Tîm rygbi'r undeb cenedlaethol Cymru) represents Wales in men's international rugby union.Its governing body, the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), was established in 1881, the same year that Wales played their first international against England.
The history of the Wales national rugby union team from 2005 to present (note that, as of September 2019, and despite reaching Number One in the Men's World Rugby Rankings for the first time in history, for a period of two weeks in late August 2019, [1] the rest of this article barely goes beyond 2015) covers a period where the side won four Grand Slams in the Six Nations Championship, as well ...
Wales: 3T–1T 1D Wales: 4 February 1888 Rodney Parade Wales Scotland: 1T–0 1888 Home Nations Championship Wales: 3 March 1888 Lansdowne Road Ireland Wales: 1 G 1T 1D–0 Ireland: 22 December 1888 St. Helen's Wales: New Zealand Natives 1G 2T–0 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team Wales: 2 February 1889 Raeburn Place Scotland Wales: 2T–0
Date Home Score Away Competition Location Attendance 1 January 1908 Wales 9–8 New Zealand 1907–08 Kiwis Tour: Athletic Ground, Aberdare: 20,000 20 April 1908 Wales 35–18 England
Most appearances at Rugby World Cup 21 – Alun Wyn Jones (2007, 2011, 2015, 2019) [4] Most Rugby World Cup tournaments 4 – Gareth Thomas, Stephen Jones, Gethin Jenkins, Alun Wyn Jones, George North Most points at Rugby World Cup 123 – Dan Biggar (2015, 2019, 2023) Most tries at Rugby World Cup 10 – Shane Williams (2003, 2007, 2011) [5]
Since 1908 Australia and Wales have competed against each other in rugby union in forty-nine matches, Australia having won thirty-four, Wales fourteen, with one draw. Since 2007 the teams have competed for the James Bevan Trophy, which was created to celebrate 100 years of rugby between the two nations. [1]
When Wales faced Australia on 3 December 1966, two future Rugby Hall of Fame members made their Test debuts; Gerald Davies and Barry John. [17] Davies played 46 Tests for Wales between 1966 and 1978. Although he started out playing in the centre, he was moved to the wing during Wales' 1969 tour of New Zealand and Australia, [ 18 ] and ...
Illustration of the Irish team which faced Wales in the 1895 Home Nations Championship. Ireland and Wales have played each other at rugby union since 1882. A total of 135 matches have been played, with Wales winning 70 matches, Ireland winning 58 matches and seven matches drawn.