Tag Archives: Rugby Europe

Rugby World Cup (RWC) 2023 qualifiers will begin in Europe in March. The qualifying tournament of the Rugby Europe Championship has been announced. Favorites Georgia will travel to Portugal on the opening round of the qualifiers. Russia will play host to Romania in the other match on the opening weekend. …

Portugal won 33-13 today against Brazil. The result gives the Europeans a 2-0 series win over the South Americans. Portugal won game one 30-10 last Saturday and today they were 33-13 winners. Both Portugal and Brazil are preparing for RWC 2023 qualifiers. They will each face stiff opposition in regional …

World Rugby has added Jordan, Qatar and Turkey as members. The three countries all obtain Associate Membership status. With it the number of World Rugby national unions in membership is now 127. Rugby has a differing history in the three new unions. Jordan and Qatar were a part of the former …

International competition kicked-off today in Europe for 2020. While most eyes were on the Six Nations matches, there were also round one fixtures in the Rugby Europe Championship. Two of the five matches played today were Six Nations fixtures. Wales defeated Italy 42-0 in Cardiff, while Ireland were 19-12 winners over …

World Rugby’s desired world league, the Nations Championship is in danger. Recent meetings held in Europe to agree to the terms of the competition did not go well for World Rugby, reports Fermín de la Calle. for Revista 22. de la Calle writes that a meeting on Tuesday (April 16) …

Game two of the Central European tour saw the USA South Panthers winning in Austria. Taking-on Austria’s test team the USA South Panthers were 51-0 winners in Vienna this afternoon. The fixture was game two of a three-match tour. In the tour opener the USA South Panthers defeated Hungary 35-12 …

The USA South Panthers defeated Hungary 35-12 to begin their Central European tour. Played in in Szazhalombatta near Budapest the Panthers came out clean winners against Hungary’s national team. Game two of the tour will take place tomorrow, on Wednesday August 29 against Austria while the tour will conclude on Saturday …

The USA South Panthers have named their playing roster to tour Europe. On August 25 a 31-man squad and a group of six coaches will meet in Budapest, Hungary to begin a nine day tour of Central Europe. The tour will see matches played against the test teams from Hungary, …

2018 has been a year to further assess and expose the complexity of World Rugby’s player eligibility laws. Belgium, Romania, Spain, and Tahiti were all disqualified from RWC 2019 for fielding players who were either (a) unknowingly captured by another as was the case regarding Romania and Spain, or (b) …

Samoa are set to become the next team etched into the Rugby World Cup schedule after completing a dominant 66-15 victory over Germany in Apia on Saturday. The rampant Manu chalked up 10 tries in all while conceding only two in a one-sided display of running rugby. It had been …