Thursday 12 December 2019

What countries is rugby most popular in?

It is the national sport in New Zealand, Wales, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Georgia and Madagascar, and is the most popular form of rugby globally.

Rugby is popular in most of the former/current British colonies/territories: NZ, Australia, South Africa, Fiji, Canada, etc. It is most popular in NZ and Wales, but also strong in England, Ireland and Scotland. Soccer is most popular in these last three but rugby is a strong second as a winter team sport.

The Six Nations is a tournament played every year between the top rugby union-playing countries in Europe. The six countries that take part are England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Italy.

Rugby union, widely known simply as rugby, is a contact team sport that originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players

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