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- There are currently 132 members of World Rugby – 114 full members and 18 associate members – from six different regional associations in Asia Rugby, Rugby Africa, Rugby Europe, Oceania Rugby, Rugby Americas North and Sudamérica Rugby.
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World Rugby is an international federation and a global movement comprising of 133 national member Unions affiliated through six regional associations (Asia Rugby, Rugby Africa, Rugby Europe, Oceania Rugby, Rugby Americas North and Sudamérica Rugby).
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There are currently 132 members of World Rugby – 114 full members and 18 associate members – from six different regional associations in Asia Rugby, Rugby Africa, Rugby Europe, Oceania Rugby, Rugby Americas North and Sudamérica Rugby.
Each member country must also be a member of one of the six regional unions into which the world is divided: Africa, North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and Oceania. [6] World Rugby was founded as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) in 1886 by Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with England joining in 1890. [7] .
This list shows each country which has a union affiliated to World Rugby, the international governing body for rugby union. It also shows the number of registered clubs playing in each country, official referees and the number of registered players broken down by gender and age group.
World Rugby is an international federation and a global movement comprising more than 500 million fans and eight million players within 132 national member federations affiliated through six regional associations.
Nov 19, 2020 · Burkina Faso, Iran and Laos are the latest rugby nations to become full member of World Rugby, the sport’s governing body. At its virtual interim council meeting earlier in the week, the three unions were anounced as full members, while while Nepal and Panama become new associate members of the international federation.
GLOBAL PARTICIPATION IN RUGBY Country Total active Total players participants Andorra (1991) 390 2,085 Austria (1992) 1,850 2,200 Azerbaijan (2004) Associate Member Belgium (1988) 12,259 10,715 Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996) 726 482 B.
