Germany women's national rugby union team

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Germany
Shirt badge/Association crest
EmblemBundesadler (Federal Eagle)
UnionGerman Rugby Federation
Head coachDirk Frase and Paul McGuigan
First
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World Cup
Appearances2 (First in 1998)

The Germany women's national rugby union team (

Rugby World Cup appearance at the 1998 tournament in the Netherlands, and made their last appearance at the 2002 Rugby World Cup in Spain. They regularly compete in the Rugby Europe Women's Championship
.

History

The German women's national rugby union team was founded in 1989. Back then women's rugby was still part of the "Deutsche Rugby Jugend", the youth rugby organization in Germany. After only 2 training camps in

BSV 92 Berlin, DRC Hannover, RK Heusenstamm, SC Neuenheim, TV Wiedenbrück and SV 08 Ricklingen. For their first international match the German women met Sweden in Berlin
in 1989 and lost only 0–8, and went on to qualify for the next two World Cups.

However German national teams (fifteens and sevens) have suffered from limited financial support, and after the European Championship finals in April 2005 (where Germany finished fourth) the DRV officially disbanded the XVs national team for financial reasons. Though this was reversed a year later at the next General Assembly of the DRV, it was a set-back and Germany have struggled to keep up with their neighbours in this form of the game.

Having played their last test match in 2010, Germany returned to test rugby in 2016 after a long six year absence. In 2019 Germany withdrew from the European Championships due to financial difficulties.[1]

Records

Rugby World Cup

Year Round Position GP W D L PF PA
Wales 1991 Did not enter
Scotland 1994
Netherlands 1998 Shield Final 14th 5 1 0 4 46 308
Spain 2002 15th Place Playoff 16th 4 0 0 4 19 232
Canada 2006 Did not enter
England 2010 Did not qualify
France 2014
Ireland 2017
2021
Total 2/9 14th 9 1 0 8 65 540

Overall

(Full internationals only)

Rugby: Germany internationals 1989-
Opponent First game Played Won Drawn Lost Percentage
 Belgium 2001 4 3 1 0 87.50%
 Denmark 2004 1 1 0 0 100.00%
 England 1997 1 0 0 1 0.00%
 Finland 2007 2 2 0 0 100.00%
 France 1997 1 0 0 1 0.00%
 Ireland 1997 3 0 0 3 0.00%
 Italy 1996 7 0 0 7 0.00%
 Kazakhstan 1993 4 1 0 3 25.00%
 Luxembourg 2007 1 1 0 0 100.00%
 Netherlands 1992 17 1 0 16 5.89%
 Norway 2003 3 3 0 0 100.00%
 Russia 2010 1 0 0 1 0.00%
 Spain 1996 2 0 0 2 0.00%
 New Zealand 1998 2 0 0 2 0.00%
 Romania 2007 1 1 0 0 100.00%
 Sweden 1989 10 3 0 7 30.00%
  Switzerland 2016 2 2 0 0 100.00%
 Wales 1998 2 0 0 2 0.00%
Summary 1989 64 18 1 45 28.13%

Players

See also

References

  1. ^ Birch, John (2019-12-17). "Finance crisis forces Germany out of Euros". Scrum Queens. Retrieved 2022-06-03.

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