Women's International Rugby Union - International Women's Matches

International Women's Matches

Definition of an "international":

Individual unions compile their own international records. As a result the list below will conflict with some of these "official" records (much in the same way as they will conflict with each other) as unions:

• may not include some games in their official records because they fielded a below strength team in a tournament for full international XVs, or
• my include games which are not listed below because they fielded a full strength team in a friendly against an unofficial or "A" team.

For consistency this list has used the following criteria when defining what is or is not an international:

• Tournament games between national representative XVs from tournaments for full international teams, regardless of an individual union's selection policy;
• "Friendly" fixtures which it appears were generally promoted prior to the game as being between full strength national XVs. In case of doubt the opinion of the home union - i.e. the promoter of the game - has carried the most weight.
• Fixtures between official national selections and supra-national teams (such as "World XVs").