England women's national rugby union team

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England
Union	Rugby Football Union for Women
Coach	Gary Streeter
Team colours		Change colours
First international
Wales  4-22  England (1987)
Largest win
England  101-0  South Africa (2005)
Worst defeat
New Zealand  67-0  England (1997)
World Cup
Appearances	5 (First in 1991)
Best result	Winners, 1994

The England women's national rugby union team are a national sporting side of England, representing them at rugby union. The side first played in 1982.

Contents 1 History 2 Results summary 3 Results 3.1 Full internationals 3.2 Other matches 4 External links

[edit] History

Women’s Rugby was first played seriously in Great Britain in the late 1970’s. Early teams were established through the student network and included Keele University, University College of London, Imperial College, York University and St Mary’s Hospital.

Until May 1994 Women’s’ Rugby was run by the Women’s’ Rugby Football Union (WRFU), formed in 1983. The WRFU was responsible for rugby in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. When the WRFU was formed there were 12 founder teams as members in the first year. These teams included: Leicester Polytechnic, Sheffield University, UCL, University of Keele, Warwick University, Imperial College, Leeds University, Magor Maidens, York University and Loughborough University.

In 1994 the Rugby Football Union for Women (RFUW) was formed in England with each of the Home Nations governing their own countries. The RFUW currently has over 410 Clubs comprising of 170 Senior clubs, 80 student sides, 29 Under 18’s sides, 103 Under 16’s sides and 40 Schools. These clubs are slotted into regions, these being: North West, North East, Yorkshire & Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, Eastern Counties, London & South East North, South East South, South West (North) and South West (South) There are also 16 Partnership Officers developing girls rugby in their geographical regions.

Unusually the badge and logo of England women's national teams is significantly different from that worn by men's teams.

Many top men’s clubs have had women’s teams from time to time. These have included Wasps, Saracens, Worcester, Rosslyn Park, London Irish, London Welsh, Waterloo, Richmond, Blackheath and Harlequins, but not all of these clubs still field women's sides. One effect of the continued division between RFU and RFUW is that there remains little incentive for clubs to create women's sections, and little encouragement for those that do field women's teams to actively integrate them fully into the host club.

The first women’s International in Great Britain took place when Great Britain played against France in April 1986 at Richmond Athletic Ground, London. France won 14 - 8. Since then Great Britain has played Holland and Italy and taken part in the first European Cup against France, Holland and Italy. Great Britain has not played since they beat Italy in 1990. England first played against Wales on the 5th April 1987, when they won 22 – 4 at Pontypool Park, Wales. An England v Wales International has taken place every year since and on all occasions has been won by England.

England have taken part in every Women’s Rugby World Cup competition, winning in 1994 and finishing as runner-up on three other occasions.

The 1995/1996 season saw the introduction of a Home Nations Championship between England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which England won in its inaugural year. England won the Championship every year except from the 1997/98 season when Scotland won it. France joined the competition in the 1998/99 season making it the Five Nations Championship with England achieving the Grand Slam in three successive seasons. In the 2001/02 season, Ireland rejoined the fold in preparation for the World Cup, and the competition expanded to be known as the Six Nations, since when England have never finished lower than runner-up, and have won the title (and Grand Slam) three more times.

[edit] Results summary

Note: In recent years England's RFUW have not tended to enter their first XV in the FIRA European championships, and as a result the RFUW do not include the results in their first XV's international statistics. However - as confirmed by leading rugby statistician Stuart Farmer of SFMS Ltd - even in men's rugby full international status is awarded to any game...

"where ONE country awards full test caps for its players, not like cricket when both sides must award caps for it to count. Also, one country may even award caps when the opponents are not even a country (as with Wales against the Barbarians in 1990 and 1996, or even when countries play against another country’s second teams or age group sides."

As most of England's opponents (and FIRA) treat FIRA tournament games as full internationals they are recorded as such below. This will mean that RFUW statistics will differ, but the unilateral decisions of one nation cannot affect the status of an entire international tournament.

For more information on the status of women's rugby internationals see Women's international rugby.

Rugby: England internationals 1987-

Opponent	First game	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Percentage
Australia	1998	3	3	0	0	100.00%
Canada	1993	12	12	0	0	100.00%
France	1991	23	16	0	7	69.57%
Germany	1997	1	1	0	0	100.00%
Ireland	1996	12	12	0	0	100.00%
Italy	1991	6	6	0	0	100.00%
Kazakhstan	2000	2	2	0	0	100.00%
Netherlands	1997	2	2	0	0	100.00%
New Zealand	1997	10	1	0	9	10.00%
Russia	1994	2	2	0	0	100.00%
Samoa	2005	1	1	0	0	100.00%
Scotland	1994	17	15	0	2	88.26%
South Africa	2005	2	2	0	0	100.00%
Spain	1991	13	11	1	1	96.15%
Sweden	1988	3	3	0	0	100.00%
United States	1991	7	6	0	1	85.71%
Wales	1987	25	25	0	0	100.00%
Summary 1987-		141	121	1	19	86.17%

[edit] Results

See Women's international rugby for information about the status of international games and match numbering.

[edit] Full internationals

[13]
	1987-04-05	Wales	4-22	England	Pontypool Park	[1/1/1]

[20]
	1988-04-24	Wales	6-36	England	Newport RFC	[2/2/2]

[28]
	1988-10-15	England	40-0	Sweden	Waterloo	[3/5/1]

[29]
	1989-02-12	England	38-4	Wales	Moseley RFC	[4/3/3]

[34]
	1990-02-11	Wales	12-18	England	Neath RFC	[4/5/4]

[43]
	1991-03-24	England	24-13	Wales	Waterloo	[6/5/5]

[47]
	1991-04-06 (WC)	England	12-0	Spain	Swansea	[7/2/1]

[51]
	1991-04-08 (WC)	England	25-9	Italy	Llanharan	[8/7/1]

[57]
	1991-04-12 (WC)	England	13-0	France	Cardiff Arms Park	[9/21/1]

[58]
	1991-04-14 (WC)	England	6-19	United States	Cardiff	[10/10/1]

[60]
	1992-02-09	Wales	10-14	England	National Stadium Cardiff	[8/11/6]

[66]
	1993-03-14	England	23-5	Wales	Northampton RFC	[12/9/7]

[69]
	1993-06-08 (CC)	England	17-6	United States	Fletcher’s Fields, Toronto	[13/12/2]

[70]
	1993-06-10 (CC)	Canada	lost to	England	Fletcher’s Fields, Toronto	[8/14/1]

[72]
	1993-06-12 (CC)	England	38-0	Wales	Fletcher’s Fields, Toronto	[15/12/8]

[78]
	1994-02-13	Wales	10-11	England	Bridgend	[14/16/9]

[79]
	1994-02-18	England	32-8	France	Wolverhampton	[17/25/2]

[81]
	1994-04-11 (WC)	England	66-0	Russia	Boroughmuir	[18/1/1]

[87]
	1994-04-15 (WC)	Scotland	0-26	England	Boroughmuir	[5/19/1]

[92]
	1994-04-17 (WC)	England	24-10	Canada	Gala	[20/12/2]

[97]
	1994-04-20 (WC)	England	18-6	France	Gala	[21/28/3]

[105]
	1994-04-24 (WC)	England	38-23	United States	Edinburgh Academicals RFC	[22/19/3]

[111]
	1995-02-12	England	25-0	Wales	Sale RFC	[23/21/10]

[124]
	1996-02-04 (HN)	England	56-3	Wales	Leicester	[24/22/11]

[126]
	1996-02-18	France	6-15	England	Villand Bonnot	[33/25/4]

[127]
	1996-0?-?? (HN)	England	beat	Ireland	Venue unknown	[26/10/1]

[129]
	1996-03-03 (HN)	Scotland	8-12	England	Meggetland, Edinburgh	[16/27/2]

[146]
	1997-01-05	England	17-15	Spain	Leeds	[28/10/2]

[149]
	1997-01-26 (HN)	England	23-3	Scotland	Blackheath	[29/19/3]

[150]
	1997-02-09 (HN)	Ireland	0-32	England	Limerick	[13/30/2]

[151]
	1997-02-23	England	15-17	France	Northampton	[31/39/5]

[153]
	1997-03-09 (HN)	Wales	22-24	England	Worcester	[27/32/12]

[155]
	1997-04-02 (FIRA)	England	40-3	Netherlands	Nice, France	[33/31/1]

[160]
	1997-04-04 (FIRA)	France	10-15	England	Nice, France	[34/41/6]

[165]
	1997-04-06 (FIRA)	England	24-8	Scotland	Nice, France	[35/23/4]

[169]
	1997-08-13	New Zealand	67-0	England	Burnham	[14/36/1]

[171]
	1997-08-31	Germany	0-84	England	Hürth	[17/37/1]

[178]
	1998-02-01	France	5-13	England	Villeneuve d' Ascq, Lille	[43/38/7]

[180]
	1998-02-15 (HC)	England	29-12	Wales	Waterloo	[39/28/13]

[183]
	1998-03-21 (HC)	Scotland	8-5	England	Stewarts Melville	[28/39/5]

[185]
	1999-04-05 (HC)	England	62-8	Ireland	Worcester	[41/21/3]

[189]
	1998-05-02 (WC)	England	75-0	Sweden	Amsterdam	[42/18/2]

[196]
	1998-05-05 (WC)	Canada	6-72	England	Amsterdam	[20/43/3]

[204]
	1998-05-09 (WC)	Australia	13-30	England	Amsterdam	[8/44/1]

[212]
	1998-05-12 (WC)	England	11-44	New Zealand	Amsterdam	[45/19/2]

[224]
	1998-05-16 (WC)	Canada	15-31	England	Amsterdam	[23/46/4]

[232]
	1999-02-28 (5N)	England	34-7	Scotland	Richmond RFC	[47/36/6]

[235]
	1999-03-07 (5N)	Ireland	0-56	England	Dublin	[29/48/4]

[236]
	1999-03-21 (5N)	England	13-8	France	Worcester	[49/52/8]

[239]
	1999-04-10 (5N)	Wales	11-83	England	Swansea	[39/50/14]

[243]
	1999-04-19 (FIRA)	England	91-3	Netherlands	Belluno, Italy	[51/42/2]

[248]
	1999-04-21 (FIRA)	England	0-19	France	Belluno, Italy	[52/55/9]

[252]
	1999-04-24 (FIRA)	England	13-15	Scotland	Belluno, Italy	[53/41/7]

[258]
	2000-01-09	Spain	10-42	England	Barcelona	[24/54/3]

[260]
	2000-02-06 (5N)	England	31-7	Spain	Banbury	[55/25/4]

[261]
	2000-02-18 (5N)	France	8-24	England	Massy, Paris	[58/56/10]

[264]
	2000-03-05 (5N)	England	51-0	Wales	Newbury	[57/44/15]

[268]
	2000-04-01 (5N)	Scotland	9-64	England	Edinburgh	[45/58/8]

[271]
	2000-05-08 (FIRA)	England *	41-3	Kazakhstan	Vera, Spain	[59/21/1]

[277]
	2000-05-10 (FIRA)	England *	12-19	France	Roquetas, Spain	[59/61/11]

[281]
	2000-05-13 (FIRA)	England *	40-20	Scotland	Almeria, Spain	[61/48/9]

[288]
	2000-09-23 (CC)	England	31-7	United States	Winnipeg	[62/34/4]

[291]
	2000-09-27 (CC)	Canada	10-34	England	Winnipeg	[29/63/5]

[292]
	2000-09-30 (CC)	England	13-32	New Zealand	Winnipeg	[64/26/3]

[297]
	2001-02-04 (5N)	Wales	0–18	England	Newport	[51/65/16]

[300]
	2001-02-18 (5N)	England	28–12	Spain	Worcester	[66/33/5]

[303]
	2001-03-04 (5N)	England	39–0	Scotland	Richmond	[67/51/10]

[306]
	2001-04-08 (5N)	England	50–6	France	Northampton	[68/67/12]

[311]
	2001-05-06 (FIRA)	England *	29-15	Kazakhstan	Tourcoing, France	[69/24/2]

[321]
	2001-05-10 (FIRA)	England *	8-15	Spain	Lille, France	[70/38/6]

[326]
	2001-05-12 (FIRA)	France	23-34	England*	Lille, France	[70/71/12]

[328]
	2001-05-26	Australia	19-41	England	T.G.Milner, Eastwood, Sydney	[12/72/2]

[329]
	2001-06-02	Australia	5-15	England	Newcastle, NSW	[13/73/3]

[330]
	2001-06-09	New Zealand	15-10	England	Rotorua	[27/74/4]

[331]
	2001-06-16	New Zealand	17-22	England	North Harbour Stadium	[28/75/5]

[343]
	2002-02-03 (6N)	Scotland	8–35	England	Dunbar	[58/76/11]

[346]
	2002-02-17 (6N)	England	79–0	Ireland	Worcester	[77/41/5]

[347]
	2002-03-01 (6N)	France	22–17	England	Tournon, Lyon	[73/78/14]

[352]
	2002-03-23 (6N)	England	40–0	Wales	London Welsh	[79/62/17]

[358]
	2002-04-07 (6N)	Spain	14–53	England	Madrid	[44/80/7]

[364]
	2002-05-13 (WC)	England	63-9	Italy	Barcelona	[81/35/2]

[373]
	2002-05-18 (WC)	Spain	5-13	England	Barcelona	[46/82/8]

[383]
	2002-05-21 (WC)	Canada	10-53	England	Barcelona	[35/83/6]

[391]
	2002-05-25 (WC)	England	9-19	New Zealand	Barcelona	[84/32/6]

[394]
	2003-02-15 (6N)	England	57–0	France	Twickenham	[85/80/15]

[397]
	2003-02-21 (6N)	Wales	7–69	England	Cardiff Arms Park	[73/86/17]

[401]
	2003-03-09 (6N)	England	69–0	Spain	Harlequins RFC	[87/51/9]

[405]
	2003-03-22 (6N)	England	31–0	Scotland	Harlequins RFC	[88/71/12]

[406]
	2003-03-28 (6N)	Ireland	3–46	England	Thomond Park RFC, Limerick	[53/89/6]

[417]
	2003-06-14 (CC)	Canada	5-10	England	Thunderbird Stadium, Vancouver	[40/90/7]

[418]
	2003-06-18 (CC)	England	15-8	United States	Thunderbird Stadium, Vancouver	[91/46/5]

[420]
	2003-06-28 (CC)	Canada	18-21	England	Thunderbird Stadium, Vancouver	[42/92/8]

[427]
	2004-02-15 (6N)	Spain	3-71	England	Pinares de Venecia , Zaragoza	[56/93/10]

[430]
	2004-02-21 (6N)	Scotland	7-20	England	Netherdale, Galashiels	[75/94/13]

[432]
	2004-03-06 (6N)	England	51-0	Ireland	Twickenham, London	[95/56/7]

[435]
	2004-03-20 (6N)	England	53-3	Wales	The Stoop, London	[96/80/19]

[438]
	2004-03-27 (6N)	France	13-12	England	Bourg-en-Bresse, Lyon	[91/97/16]

[443]
	2004-05-02 (FIRA)	England *	73-7	Italy	Toulouse, France	[98/41/3]

[452]
	2004-05-05 (FIRA)	England *	39-3	Wales	Toulouse, France	[99/83/20]

[456]
	2004-05-08 (FIRA)	France	8-6	England*	Toulouse, France	[94/100/17]

[464]
	2004-06-13 (CC)	Canada	11-35	England	Calgary Rugby Park	[44/101/9]

[466]
	2004-06-19 (CC)	England	0-38	New Zealand	Edmonton	[102/37/7]

[469]
	2004-11-14	England	45-5	Canada	Richmond	[103/46/10]

[471]
	2004-11-17	England	41-3	Canada	Newbury	[104/47/11]

[474]
	2005-02-04 (6N)	Wales	0-81	England	Arms Park, Cardiff	[87/105/21]

[478]
	2005-02-13 (6N)	England	10-13	France	Imber Court, London	[96/106/18]

[481]
	2005-02-26 (6N)	Ireland	0-32	England	St Mary's College, Dublin	[65/107/8]

[482]
	2005-03-12 (6N)	England	76-0	Spain	Imber Court, London	[108/67/10]

[488]
	2005-03-19 (6N)	England	22-10	Scotland	Twickenham, London	[109/87/14]

[495]
	2005-05-14	England	101-0	South Africa	Imber Court RFC	[110/4/1]

[510]
	2005-10-15	Samoa	0-53	England	Ericsson Stadium, Auckland	[6/111/1]

[511]
	2005-10-22	New Zealand	24-15	England	Eden Park, Auckland	[41/112/8]

[513]
	2005-10-26	New Zealand	33-8	England	Waikato Stadium, Hamilton	[42/113/9]

[520]
	2006-02-04 (6N)	England	38-15	Wales	Old Albanians, St Albans	[114/94/22]

[523]
	2006-02-11 (6N)	Spain	3-86	England	La Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid	[70/115/12]

[526]
	2006-02-25 (6N)	Scotland	5-22	England	Murrayfield	[83/116/15]

[530]
	2006-03-11 (6N)	France	0-28	England	Bondoufle, Paris	[105/117/19]

[532]
	2007-03-17 (6N)	England	29-10	Ireland	Old Albanians, St Albans	[118/73/9]

[560]
	2006-08-31 (WC)	England	18-0	United States	St. Albert Rugby Park, St. Albert	[119/55/6]

[564]
	2006-09-04 (WC)	England	74-8	South Africa	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[120/8/2]

[572]
	2006-09-08 (WC)	England	27-8	France	St. Albert Rugby Park, St. Albert	[121/109/20]

[577]
	2006-09-12 (WC)	Canada	6-10	England	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[59/122/12]

[586]
	2006-09-17 (WC)	England	17-25	New Zealand	Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton	[123/47/10]

[596]
	2007-02-03 (6N)	England	60-0	Scotland	Old Albanians, St Albans	[124/101/16]

[600]
	2007-02-10 (6N)	England	23-0	Italy	Twickenham, London	[125/53/4]

[604]
	2007-02-25 (6N)	Ireland	0-32	England	Thomond Park, Limerick	[82/126/11]

[607]
	2007-03-11 (6N)	England	38-12	France	Old Albanians, St Albans	[127/115/21]

[609]
	2007-03-17 (6N)	Wales	0-30	England	Taffs Well RFC, Cardiff	[106/128/23]

[624]
	2007-04-28 (FIRA)	England *	62-0	Russia	Barcelona, Spain	[129/22/2]

[628]
	2007-04-30 (FIRA)	England *	41-11	Italy	Barcelona, Spain	[130/58/5]

[633]
	2007-05-02 (FIRA)	Spain	22-22	England*	Barcelona, Spain	[81/131/13]

[639]
	2007-05-05 (FIRA)	England *	27-17	France	Barcelona, Spain	[132/120/22]

[653]
	2007-12-15	England	34-0	United States	London Irish	[133/62/7]

[655]
	2008-02-02 (6N)	England	55-0	Wales	London Irish	[134/112/24]

[657]
	2008-02-09 (6N)	Italy	6-76	England	Rome	[62/135/6]

[661]
	2008-02-23 (6N)	France	0-31	England	Bergerac, Agen	[123/136/23]

[664]
	2008-03-08 (6N)	Scotland	5-34	England	Meggetland	[110/137/17]

[666]
	2008-03-15 (6N)	England	17-7	Ireland	London Irish	[138/89/11]

[678]
	2008-05-17 (FIRA)	England	80-3	Sweden	Amsterdam	[139/22/3]

[688]
	2008-05-20 (FIRA)	England	22-11	Ireland	Drachten, Netherlands	[140/91/12]

[700]
	2008-05-24 (FIRA)	England	12-6	Wales	Amsterdam	[141/119/25]

*England only sent its Development Squad to this tournament.

[edit] Other matches

[-]
	2002-02-16	Wales A	0-53	England A	Bridgend	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2002-03-02	England Academy	5-0	Netherlands	Staines	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2002-03-24	England A	79-0	Wales A	London Welsh	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2002-04-14	England Academy	35-0	Wales A	Chester	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2003-02-01	Spain	0-34	England A	Cornella	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2003-03-23	Wales A	22-12	England Academy	Caerphilly	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2003-03-29	Netherlands	15-14	England Devp.	Amsterdam	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2004-01-31	England A	35-5	Spain	Imber Court	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2004-02-22	England Devp.	15-5	Netherlands	Newbury	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2004-03-27	France A	14-32	England A	Bourg-en-Bresse	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2004-04-25	England Academy	80-0	Wales A	Broadstreet, Coventry	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2004-12-08	England A	50-17	Wales	Clifton	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2005-01-09	Ireland	25-19	England Academy	St Mary's RFC, Dublin	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2005-02-06	Netherlands	19-36	England Academy	Amsterdam	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2005-02-12	England A	29-6	France A	Imber Court	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2005-03-20	England Academy	48-0	Wales A	Birchgrove	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2005-05-07	England A	42-12	South Africa	Old Albanians, St Albans	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2005-05-10	England Academy	25-19	South Africa	Old Albanians, St Albans	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2006-01-29	England A	8-21	United States	Imber Court	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2006-02-12	England A	17-10	Italy	Imber Court	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2006-02-26	Netherlands	13-0	England Students	RAF Halton	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2006-04-14	England Select XV	35-5	Sweden	RAF Halton	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2007-03-11	England A	21-7	France A	Old Albanians, St Albans	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2008-02-09	Spain	5-22	England A	Madrid	[-/-/-]

[-]
	2008-02-23	France A	0-3	England A	Bergerac, Agen	[-/-/-]

[edit] External links

• England Rugby Football Union website
• England Rugby website
• Museum of Rugby
• Origin of the red rose
• Unofficial England Rugby Union - Fan Site
• English rugby union news from Planet Rugby

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