Women's international rugby union results summary

The most successful teams in women's international rugby union have been England, France, and New Zealand.

Fifteens

Current playing records

25 matches or more

10-24 matches

Fewer than 10 matches

Year of first international

Year of last international

Official rankings

IRB World Ranking

Although the IRB produce a complex and continually updated ranking for men's international rugby they do not compile any ranking system for the women's game. Rugby statistician Serge Piquet has produced a currently unofficial, but generally accepted, world ranking, but where rankings are referred to by some boards these will normally be the finishing positions in the previous Women's Rugby World Cup (which only takes place every four years and will only include those countries that qualified for the finals).

The IRB's seedings for each World Cup are also influenced by positions in the previous tournament, but not entirely decided by them. The table below shows the final positions for the 2014 tournament and is therefore the closest thing to an "official" IRB ranking:[1]

Rugby Europe Ranking

Rugby Europe, formerly known as FIRA-AER, do produce an annual ranking of European nations, based on previous season's Rugby Europe and Six Nations competitions, for use in RE tournaments (though Six Nations teams are often given a higher seeding in tournaments than their ranking might suggest). As these will be based on more recent performances they can contradict the IRB list and also include countries not featuring in the World Cup-based ranking. On the other hand, they obviously only include European nations. Rankings[2] (based on previous season results) appear to be:

Rank Nation 1997/8 1998/9 1999/0 2000/1 2001/2 2002/3 2003/4 2004/5 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 2008/9 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13
1 England121112122111111
2 France432241311324422
3 Ireland887876555563333
4 Italy668787877788955
5 Wales776555446242264
6 Scotland213423233455546
7 Spain344334664667777
8 Netherlands55991010998877888
9 Sweden----98789101010699
10 Russia--------11999101010
11 Finland----------141414-11
12 Germany99-10119101010-12111111-
13 Belgium----12----1111121212-
14 Romania----------131313--
15 Luxembourg----------151515--
16 Norway------11111212161616--
17 Serbia----------17----
18 Denmark------1212-------
19Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia-Herzegovina--------13------
NR[3]  Switzerland---------------
NR[4] Kazakhstan--566----------

Sevens

Current playing record (to end of 2011)

Detailed results from a small number of tournaments, especially in Africa and Asia, have never been published. The following table therefore relates to the published tournament results. Note: Almost all of New Zealand's sevens matches - apart from the 2009 World Cup and qualifier and two Hong Kong Sevens - have been played by "Aotearoa Maori" and (before 2000) "New Zealand Wild Ducks". While in some cases they were officially sanctioned by the NZRU, neither were full New Zealand teams, and occasionally included players not eligible to play for New Zealand. As a result, they are not included in the table below. The playing record of these unofficial New Zealand teams is: Played 59, Won 55, Lost 4, 93.22%.

Year Matches
1997 32
1999 15
2000 42
2001 41
2002 15
2003 87
2004 51
2005 141
2006 101
2007 212
2008 303
2009 283
2010 337
2011 408
Total 2068

Year of first international

Debut YearNations
1997Arabian Gulf;  Australia;  Canada;  England;  Fiji;  Hong Kong;  Japan;  Netherlands;

 Scotland;  Singapore;  United States

1999  China;  Russia;  Samoa
2000 Kazakhstan;  New Zealand;  Thailand;  Wales
2001 Sweden
2003 Belgium;  Bulgaria;  Croatia;  Czech Republic;  France;  Kyrgyzstan;  Norway;

 Portugal;  Spain;  Sri Lanka;   Switzerland;  Uzbekistan

2004 Argentina;  Brazil;  Chile;  Colombia;  Malta;  Paraguay;  Peru;  Tunisia;  Uruguay;  Venezuela
2005 Austria;  Barbados;  Germany;  Guyana;  Hungary;  Israel;  Italy;  Jamaica;

 Lithuania;  Poland;  Saint Lucia;  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines;  Trinidad and Tobago; West Indies

2006 Andorra;  Bosnia and Herzegovina;  Burkina Faso;  Guam;  Ireland;  Kenya;  Luxembourg;  Romania;  Rwanda;  Uganda;  Zambia;  Zimbabwe
2007 Cambodia;  Denmark;  Finland;  Ivory Coast;  South Korea;  Laos;  Latvia;  Moldova;  Papua New Guinea;  Serbia
2008 Bermuda;  Botswana;  Cayman Islands;  Georgia;  Madagascar;  Niue;  Slovenia;

 South Africa;  Taiwan

2009 Bahamas;  Burkina Faso;  Egypt;  Ghana;  India;  Iran;  Malaysia;  Mexico

 Morocco;  Niger;  Togo;  Ukraine

2010 Cook Islands;  Guadeloupe;  Indonesia;  Philippines;  Senegal;  Tonga
2011  Cameroon;  New Caledonia;  Slovakia
2012  Solomon Islands
2013  Turkey
2015  Costa Rica;  Montenegro

Official rankings

IRB World Ranking

As with rankings for 15-a-side rugby, IRB rankings for Sevens are based on the finishing positions in the previous World Cup. The table below shows the final positions for the 2009 tournament:

2009 World Cup Nation
1 Australia
2 New Zealand
3= South Africa
4= United States
5 England
6 Canada
7= France
7= Spain
9 China
10 Brazil
11= Italy
11= Russia
13= Netherlands
13= Japan
13= Thailand
13= Uganda

Rugby Europe Ranking

Rugby Europe also produce an annual ranking of European nations, based on previous season's RE championships which are used for the following season's tournaments. Current rankings are:

Pos20102011
1 Spain England
2 Netherlands Spain
3 France Netherlands
4 Italy Russia
5 England France
6 Russia Portugal
7 Germany Germany
8 Portugal Italy
9 Sweden Sweden
10 Moldova Moldova
11 Finland Ukraine
12  Switzerland  Switzerland
13 Belgium Finland
14 Romania Romania
15 Latvia Czech Republic
16 Andorra Croatia
17 Czech Republic Austria
18 Austria Belgium
19 Croatia Norway
20 Bulgaria Bulgaria
21 Israel Latvia
22 Ukraine Malta
23 Malta Poland
24 Hungary Denmark
25 Norway Andorra
26 Poland Israel
27 Georgia Georgia
28 Lithuania Hungary
29 Denmark Lithuania
30 Luxembourg Serbia
31 Bosnia and Herzegovina Luxembourg
32 Slovenia Bosnia and Herzegovina
33 Serbia Slovenia

References

  1. ↑ "Women's Rankings". World Rugby. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  2. ↑ As described on the RE website
  3. ↑ No ranking - have yet to play in a FIRA XVs tournament
  4. ↑ No ranking - no longer a FIRA member
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