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It also shows the number of registered clubs playing in each country, official referees and the number of registered players broken down by gender and age group. In 2023, the total number of registered players increased from 5.82 million to 8.4 million. South Africa has the most with 804,279.
Argentina (since 2012), Australia, New Zealand, South Africa: 1996: 2022: Annually From its inception through 2011, the competition involved only Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and was known as the Tri Nations. Rugby Europe Women's Championship: Up to 16 European national teams 1988: 2022: Annually Tournament for European women's ...
The African Leopards are a development side drawn from across Africa, they have played representative rugby union against South African students. The Arabian Gulf rugby union team combined various teams from Arab countries in the Persian Gulf and competed in World Cup qualification. The Arabian Gulf Rugby Union has now been dismantled and ...
The U20 Rugby Championship is the youth edition of the competition The Rugby Championship, played between the teams that make up SANZAAR (South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina) In July 2023 it was announced that the first edition of the youth competition of The Rugby Championship would be played, starting in April 2024, hosted on the ...
Australia and South Africa have met three times in the Rugby World Cup. In 1995 they were drawn in the same pool and host nation South Africa won 27–18, going on to win the cup. In 1999 Australia knocked South Africa out of the competition in a semi-final at Twickenham, winning 27–21, after extra-time.
Rugby union in South Africa is a highly popular team sport, along with cricket and soccer, and is widely played all over the country. The national team is among the strongest in the world and has been ranked in at least the top seven of the World Rugby Rankings since its inception in 2003. [ 2 ]
South Africa became the 2nd country ever to win the Rugby World Cup 3 times. The Springboks won the 2023 Rugby World Cup, defeating New Zealand 12–11 in the final at the Stade de France in Paris on October 28, 2023. It was South Africa's fourth Rugby World Cup title, and their second consecutive, having also won in 2019.
The All Blacks would go on to push this record further over the years, reaching 95.01 points on the 25 June 2007 after beating South Africa in Durban, 96.10 points after their 2015 World Cup win in England and 96.30 points on 22 August 2016, following their Rugby Championship victory over Australia in Sydney, to its current record of 96.57 ...