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Rugby union has a long history in Australia, with the first club being formed in 1863 at Sydney University. Today it holds tier one status with World Rugby and has over 82,000 players nationwide. Early history and nineteenth century
Rugby union in Australia has a history of organised competition dating back to the late 1860s. Although traditionally most popular in Australia 's rugby football strongholds of New South Wales , Queensland and the ACT , it is played throughout the nation.
Rugby Australia Ltd, [2] previously named Australian Rugby Union Limited and Australian Rugby Football Union Limited, is an Australian company operating the premier rugby union competition in Australia and teams. [3] It has its origins in 1949. It is a member of World Rugby.
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]
The professional era in rugby union began in 1995, marked by creation of the SANZAR group (a combination of South Africa, New Zealand and Australia) [2] which was formed with the purpose of selling TV rights for two new competitions, the domestic Super 12 competition and the Tri-Nations. [2]
The Cook Cup came about at the start of Rugby Union's professional era, when the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) agreed to play each other on a home-and-away basis. The first Cook Cup match was played at the Sydney Football Stadium on 25 June 1997. Australia won the match 25–6.
The Australia men's national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team.
Australia: 1981 France tour of Australia: 14 11 July 1981 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 24–14 Australia: 15 13 November 1983 Stade Marcel-Michelin, Clermont-Ferrand: 15–15 draw: 1983 Australia tour of Italy and France: 16 19 November 1983 Parc des Princes, Paris 15–6 France: 17 21 June 1986 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 27–14 Australia