Governing Body
Rugby union is governed by the Samoa Rugby Union who are also members of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance.
Samoa were awarded 'second tier' status by the International Rugby Board which entitles them to funding from the IRB.
The Samoa Rugby Union was founded in 1924, as the "Apia Rugby Union", and affiliated to the NZRFU in the same year. As the Western Samoa Rugby Football Union, it joined the IRB in 1988. When Western Samoa amended its constitution to change the country's name from Western Samoa to Samoa, the union also changed its name, and dropped the word football to become the Samoa Rugby Union. The union is also a member of the Federation of Oceania Rugby Unions (FORU).
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