Rugby union in Wales

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: Oggy Oggy Oggy, List of Wales national rugby union players, Wales national rugby union team, Wales national women's rugby union team, 1999 Rugby World Cup, 1991 Rugby World Cup, Max Boyce, Welsh Rugby Union, Wales rugby union captains, Introduction of regional rugby union teams in Wales, Wooden Spoon Society, 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup, 1980 New Zealand rugby union tour of Wales, Wales national under-20 rugby union team, RGC 1404, Prince of Wales's feathers, Grannygate, Calon Lân, Rugby in Cardiff, Y Clwb Rygbi, Welsh rugby union system, Welsh Rugby Players Association, Wales national under-18 rugby union team, Paul Child, Canada Cup, Wales A national rugby union team, Four Nations Tournament, Rugby Special. Excerpt: List of Wales national rugby union players is a list of players who have represented Wales at rugby union. The list only includes players who have played in a Test match for the senior team. The players are listed in order of chronological appearance for the national team. Players that were first capped during the same match are listed in order of those that began in the starting line up before replacements and then in alphabetical order by surname. Connection Timeout The Wales women's national rugby union team are a national sporting side of Wales, representing them at rugby union. The side first played in 1987. Wales Women have played as a team officially since 5 April 1987 when a Wales Women team, led by the recently retired Liza Burgess, took on an England Women side at Pontypool Park. Prior to 1987, Welsh players were selected to represent Great Britain with the first representative side featuring players from Wales running against France at Richmond Athletic Ground in 1986. Great Britain played as a team on several occasions until 1990, beating Italy in their final match. Wales have played England every year since 1987. Wales hosted the first ever Women's Rugby World Cup in Cardiff in 1991 and since then they have participated in a further four of the five tournaments finishing fourth in 1994, their highest ever finish. The IRB adopted the competition in 1998, which was won by the New Zealand Black Ferns who also won the tournaments in Barcelona in 2002 Edmonton, Canada in 2006. The Welsh Women's Rugby Union was created in 1994 charged with promoting and governing the development and practice of Women's Rugby in Wales; the other three home unions also took charge of their own administration effectively ending the function of the WRFU in the process. The WWRU also became affiliated to the Welsh Rugby Union at the same time. The creation of four separate home unions for Women's Rugby in Great Britain also saw the introduction of the Women's Home Nations com