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

Complete record   Pld Won Dwn Lst % 71 62 1 8 88.03 212 178 2 32 84.43 186 129 4 54 70.43 58 35 0 23 60.34 95 53 1 41 56.32 110 56 0 54 50.91 105 50 2 53 48.57 36 17 0 19 47.22 29 13 1 15 46.55 39 18 0 21 46.15 160 70 1 89 44.62 103 44 2 57 43.69 157 60 2 95 38.85 126 46 0 80 36.51 115 39 2 74 34.78 77 25 0 52 32.46 36 11 1 24 31.94 34 10 0 24 29.41 62 16 1 45 26.61 28 6 1 21 23.21

Last 10 results   Pld Won Dwn Lst % 10 8 0 2 80.00 10 8 0 2 80.00 10 8 0 2 80.00 10 8 0 2 80.00 10 7 0 3 70.00 10 6 0 4 60.00 10 6 0 4 60.00 10 5 0 5 50.00 10 5 0 5 50.00 10 5 0 5 50.00 10 4 0 6 40.00 10 4 0 6 40.00 10 4 0 6 40.00 10 4 0 6 40.00 10 3 1 6 35.00 10 3 0 7 30.00 10 3 0 7 30.00 10 2 1 7 25.00 10 2 0 8 20.00 10 2 0 8 20.00

10-24 matches

Complete record   Pld Won Dwn Lst % 13 11 1 1 88.46 19 10 1 7 55.27 18 9 0 9 50.00 12 6 0 6 50.00 16 7 1 8 46.88 12 4 0 8 36.36 17 4 2 11 29.41 24 5 1 18 22.92 14 2 1 11 17.85

Last 10 results   Pld Won Dwn Lst % 10 8 1 1 85.00 10 6 0 4 60.00 10 5 1 4 65.00 10 5 0 5 50.00 10 4 0 6 40.00 10 4 0 6 40.00 10 3 0 7 30.00 10 1 1 8 15.00 10 1 0 9 10.00

Fewer than 10 matches

One win or more   Pld Won Dwn Lst % 1 1 0 0 100.00 1 1 0 0 100.00 6 5 0 1 83.33 5 3 1 1 70.00 9 6 0 3 66.67 8 5 0 3 62.50 9 5 0 4 55.55 2 1 0 1 50.00 4 2 0 2 50.00 9 4 0 5 44.44 5 2 0 3 40.00 3 1 0 2 33.33 Caribbean 4 1 0 3 25.00 5 1 0 4 20.00

No wins yet recorded   Pld Won Dwn Lst % 2 0 2 0 50.00 5 0 2 2 20.00 5 0 1 4 10.00 1 0 0 1 0.00 1 0 0 1 0.00 1 0 0 1 0.00 1 0 0 1 0.00 2 0 0 2 0.00 2 0 0 2 0.00 2 0 0 2 0.00 2 0 0 2 0.00 2 0 0 2 0.00 3 0 0 3 0.00 World XV 3 0 0 3 0.00 4 0 0 4 0.00 4 0 0 4 0.00 5 0 0 5 0.00 6 0 0 6 0.00

Year of first international 1982: : (1); (1) 1984: : (3) 1985: : (4) 1986: : (6); (5) 1987: : (9); (7); (9); (7) 1989: : (11); (10) 1990: : (12); (13); World XV(14) 1991: : (15) 1993: : (16); (18);(16) 1994: : (20); (19) 1995: : (21) 1998: : (22) 2000: : (23) 2003: : (24); (26); (24); (26) 2004: : (29); (31); (29); (28) 2005: : (34); (32); (32); (34) 2006: : (40); (36); (39); (38); (40);(37) 2007: : (42); (42); (42); (42); (46); (46) 2008: : (48); (49); (49) 2009: : (51); (53); (52) 2010: : (54); Caribbean XV (55) 2011: : (57); (58); (56) 2013: : (59); (59)

Year of last international 2014 : ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 2013 : ; ; ; ; 2012 : ; ; ; ; ; 2011 : Caribbean Select XV; ; ; ; 2010 : ; ; ; 2009 : ; ; 2008 : ; ; ; 2007 : ; ; ; 2006 : ; 2005 : ; ; 2004 : 1995 : 1991 : 1990 :

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:

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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. RankingsAs described on the RE website (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 2012/131 1211121221111112 4322413113244223 8878765555633334 6687878777889555 7765554462422646 2134232334555467 3443346646677778 559910109988778889 ----9878910101069910 --------1199910101011 ----------141414-1112 99-10119101010-12111111-13 ----12----1111121212-14 ----------131313--15 ----------151515--16 ------11111212161616--17 ----------17----18 ------1212-------19 Bosnia-Herzegovina--------13------NRNo ranking - have yet to play in a FIRA XVs tournament ---------------NRNo ranking - no longer a FIRA member --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%.

+ 20 Matches or more Nation P W D L % Ukraine 25 23 0 2 92.00% New Zealand 25 22 0 3 88.00% Australia 58 50 1 7 87.07% England 82 69 0 13 84.15% Tunisia 30 24 1 5 81.67% Kazakhstan 104 78 1 25 75.48% Canada 53 40 0 13 75.47% USA 97 72 1 24 74.74% France 85 59 3 23 71.18% Brazil 55 39 0 16 70.91% Spain 72 49 2 21 69.44% China 121 81 3 37 68.18% South Africa 25 17 0 8 68.00% Switzerland 49 32 0 17 65.31% Hungary 112 70 6 36 65.18% Guyana 34 21 2 11 64.71% Trinidad and Tobago 24 15 1 8 64.58% Jamaica 28 18 0 10 64.29% Uganda 30 18 2 10 63.33% Zambia 21 13 0 8 61.90% Samoa 42 26 0 16 61.90% Columbia 36 21 2 13 61.11% Venezuela 34 20 1 13 60.29% Romania 56 33 1 22 59.82% Fiji 26 15 1 10 59.62% Netherlands 88 50 2 36 57.95% Russia 47 26 2 19 57.45% Finland 54 31 0 23 57.41% Wales 26 14 1 11 55.77% Moldova 37 20 1 16 55.41% Chile 34 17 3 14 54.41% Belgium 52 27 2 23 53.85% Germany 54 29 0 25 53.70% Poland 68 36 0 32 52.94% Denmark 37 19 0 18 51.35% Lithuania 39 20 0 19 51.28% Thailand 113 56 3 54 50.88% Argentina 34 16 2 16 50.00% Italy 52 25 2 25 50.00% Uruguay 33 15 2 16 48.48% St Lucia 28 13 1 14 48.21% Georgia 27 13 0 14 48.15% Japan 110 51 3 56 47.73% Papua New Guinea 34 16 0 18 47.06% Andorra 47 22 0 25 46.81% Norway 45 21 0 24 46.67% Czech Republic 86 39 1 46 45.93% Portugal 56 23 4 29 44.64% Croatia 81 34 4 43 44.44% Hong Kong 127 54 4 69 44.09% Austria 102 43 3 56 43.63% Kenya 20 8 1 11 42.50% Arabian Gulf 81 33 1 47 41.36% Malta 50 19 3 28 41.00% Zimbabwe 22 9 0 13 40.91% Latvia 33 13 1 19 40.91% Laos 26 10 0 16 38.46% Singapore 124 45 4 75 37.90% Israel 51 19 0 32 37.25% Sweden 53 19 1 33 36.79% Serbia 48 17 1 30 36.46% Taiwan 31 10 0 21 32.26% Bulgaria 62 18 0 44 29.03% Sri Lanka 29 8 0 21 27.59% Uzbekistan 33 8 0 25 24.24% Malaysia 34 8 0 26 23.53% Cayman Islands 23 5 0 18 21.74% India 33 7 0 26 21.21% Luxembourg 45 9 1 35 21.11% Guam 27 4 3 20 20.37% Paraguay 30 4 0 26 13.33% Bosnia and Herzegovina 45 5 1 39 12.22% Korea 20 2 0 18 10.00% Slovenia 50 3 2 45 8.00% Peru 34 2 0 32 5.88%

+ 19 matches or less Nation P W D L % Nigeria 5 4 0 1 80.00% Senegal 9 6 1 2 72.22% Ireland 12 8 0 4 66.67% Morocco 14 7 0 7 50.00% Ghana 8 3 1 4 43.75% Cook Islands 18 7 1 10 41.67% Mexico 15 6 0 9 40.00% Philippines 11 4 0 7 36.36% Cameroon 3 1 0 2 33.33% Madagascar 9 3 0 6 33.33% New Caledonia 9 3 0 6 33.33% Burkina Faso 12 4 0 8 33.33% Iran 15 5 0 10 33.33% Scotland 8 2 1 5 31.25% Ivory Coast 7 2 0 5 28.57% Kyrgyzstan 8 2 0 6 25.00% Botswana 12 3 0 9 25.00% Togo 9 2 0 7 22.22% St Vincent 10 2 0 8 20.00% Tonga 10 2 0 8 20.00% Rwanda 11 2 0 9 18.18% Bermuda 6 1 0 5 16.67% Guadeloupe 7 1 0 6 14.29% Tahiti 7 0 2 5 14.29% Indonesia 7 0 1 6 7.14% Barbados 15 1 0 14 6.67% West Indies 1 0 0 1 0.00% Bahamas 4 0 0 4 0.00% Niue 4 0 0 4 0.00% Slovakia 4 0 0 4 0.00% Burundi 6 0 0 6 0.00% Egypt 8 0 0 8 0.00% Cambodia 13 0 0 13 0.00%

Year Matches1997321999152000422001412002152003872004512005141200610120072122008303200928320103372011408Total2068

Year of first international Debut Year Nations1997 Arabian Gulf; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 1999 ; ; 2000 ; ; ; 2001 2003 ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 2004 ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 2005 ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; West Indies2006 ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 2007 ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 2008 ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 2009 ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 2010 ; ; ; ; ; 2011 ; ; 2012 2013 2015 ;

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:

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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:

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References