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Jun 8, 20 •
321 Views •
General News, International, Rugby World Cup, Rugby World Cup News, South Africa, World Rugby •
Shaun Liddle •
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• Process designed to promote regional strength and the best teams to rugby’s showcase event • 12 teams already qualified owing to top three pool placing at RWC 2019 • RWC 2023 on track to be a spectacular celebration of rugby and France World Rugby...
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May 18, 20 •
335 Views •
General News, International, World Rugby •
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• Hall of Fame themed week includes podcast, features, interviews and classic match footage• Physical Hall of Fame located in the town of Rugby, United Kingdom• New promotional video showcasing the greatest of our game This week, World Rugby will shine...
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May 15, 20 •
284 Views •
Australia, General News, International, National, World Rugby •
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Rugby Australia has secured $14.2m AUD in funding from the game’s global governing body, World Rugby as part of its COVID-19 rugby relief strategy. The emergency relief fund of approximately $160m AUD from World Rugby is being allocated to unions on an...
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May 15, 20 •
268 Views •
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The programme of international rugby matches during the 2020 July window has been postponed due to ongoing government and health agency COVID-19 directives, World Rugby has announced on Friday. Extended travel and quarantine restrictions that apply to...
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May 13, 20 •
382 Views •
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World Rugby is inviting the global rugby family to use the current void in rugby to download the latest version of its concussion app, learn from experts and take the test ahead of rugby’s restart. The app designed to educate general public, players,...
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May 13, 20 •
330 Views •
General News, International, IRB Laws, World Rugby •
Shaun Liddle •
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World Rugby has announced that, with immediate effect, it will no longer be possible to score a try by grounding the ball against the post protector. The minor amendment to Law 8 was approved by the World Rugby Council during its special meeting held via...
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May 12, 20 •
256 Views •
General News, International, IRB Laws, National, World Rugby •
Shaun Liddle •
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The laws of rugby union have changed significantly since the game’s first law book in 1845. Its 37 rules were printed in a booklet now on display at the World Rugby Hall of Fame in Rugby, UK. Fast forward 175 years, the World Rugby Laws of the Game 2020 are...
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Apr 15, 20 •
587 Views •
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World Rugby has confirmed the nominations for the positions of Chairman and Vice-Chairman, which will be determined at the annual meeting of Council on 12 May, 2020. In accordance with the World Rugby Bye-Laws, member unions were invited to submit nominations...
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Mar 24, 20 •
569 Views •
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World Rugby supports the prudent and necessary decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee to postpone the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The health and safety of the athletes, fans, and everyone involved is our...
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Feb 12, 20 •
994 Views •
General News, International, National, Sevens Rugby, South Africa •
Shaun Liddle •
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World Rugby announced on Tuesday that South Africa will host yet another major international tournament with the inaugural event on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series for women heading to Stellenbosch next month. Twelve teams from all six of World...
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Jan 14, 20 •
1615 Views •
Australia, Europe, General News, International, IRB Laws, National, New Zealand, South Africa, South Africa, Super Rugby, Super Rugby News, Top 14, Top 14, Varsity & Club, Varsity Cup, World Rugby •
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With rugby set to continue to experience exponential participation and fan growth as a new decade begins, World Rugby’s evidence-based drive to reduce the risk of injury in the sport continues to make a positive impact. Player welfare is the sport’s...
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Dec 18, 19 •
787 Views •
General News, International, Sevens Rugby •
Shaun Liddle •
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The World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series, a new and exciting international rugby sevens competition, will be launched in February 2020 to boost rugby sevens’ development across the globe. With sevens experiencing exponential growth from a performance and...
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Nov 3, 19 •
1842 Views •
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South Africa’s Pieter-Steph du Toit and England’s Emily Scarratt have been named World Rugby Men’s and Women’s 15s Player of the Year 2019 in association with Mastercard respectively at the World Rugby Awards in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday. On a night to...
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Nov 3, 19 •
1029 Views •
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• Record 99.3 per cent attendance with 1.84 million tickets sold • Record 1.13 million people in fanzones • Record 54.8 million television audience for Japan v Scotland (Japan team involved in top 5 biggest ever television audiences) • Record 437...
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Oct 31, 19 •
738 Views •
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The Springboks as well as South Africa’s Director of Rugby, Rassie Erasmus, have been nominated for prestigious honours in the World Rugby awards.The Springboks have been named as contenders for the title of Team of the Year while Erasmus is among the five...
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Oct 30, 19 •
920 Views •
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The contenders for the International Rugby Players (IRP) Try of the Year 2019 have been revealed, with the winner to be announced at the World Rugby Awards in Tokyo on 3 November. Three of the tries shortlisted were scored at Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan...
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Oct 30, 19 •
943 Views •
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Three countries are represented in the nominees for the World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year 2019 award in association with Tudor. The nominees for this prestigious award, now in its fifth year, are Joe Cokanasiga (England), Herschel Jantjies (South...
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Oct 29, 19 •
637 Views •
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World Rugby has today announced that the Unión de Rugby del Uruguay will join the World Rugby Council, the international federation’s primary decision-making forum. Uruguay become the 52nd member of Council, following in the footsteps of Fiji and Samoa who...
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May 16, 19 •
932 Views •
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· Appointments confirmed for 63 matches of 2019 Test season · All 23 Rugby World Cup 2019 match officials in action · Appointments made for RWC 2019 warm-up...
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Dec 30, 18 •
1250 Views •
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New Zealand Rugby congratulates Sir Bill Beaumont on being awarded a Knighthood for services to rugby in The Queen’s New Year’s honours list. Beaumont has been the Chairman of World Rugby for the past two years and has contributed more than five decades...
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Dec 11, 18 •
732 Views •
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A collaborative anti-doping education meeting involving the key stakeholders in South African rugby was held on Monday in Newlands, Cape Town, with the aim of strengthening education and information delivery for young players and their support network....
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Nov 3, 18 •
980 Views •
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All Blacks Beauden Barrett and Rieko Ioane, and Black Ferns skipper Fiao’o Faamausili have been named as finalists for the Men’s and Women’s 15s Player of the Year awards, taking the tally of New Zealand nominations to seven, for this year’s World...
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Nov 2, 18 •
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Two Springboks, Malcolm Marx and Faf de Klerk, are amongst a group of five players nominated for the prestigious 2018 World Rugby Player of the Year Award. Marx (hooker) and De Klerk (scrumhalf) join their Springbok colleague Aphiwe Dyantyi as South African...
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Sep 19, 18 •
1111 Views •
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Rugby’s leading decision-makers will meet in Sydney next week when Rugby Australia hosts key World Rugby committee meetings. Within a week of scheduled meetings, World Rugby’s Executive, Rugby, Regional, Audit and Risk and Regulations Committees and Rugby...
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Aug 9, 18 •
1786 Views •
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South Africa’s Ashleigh Murray, one of the country’s leading women’s referees, has been named amongst the 25 match officials from 15 unions for the 2019 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series. World Rugby named the appointments for the forthcoming season on...
