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Rugby Football Union

Index Rugby Football Union

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the governing body for rugby union in England. [1]

89 relations: Addison Football Club, Andy Cosslett, Army Rugby Union, Belsize Park FC, Ben Gollings, Benjamin Burns, Blackheath F.C., Civil Service F.C., Clapham Rovers F.C., Commonwealth Games, County Championship (rugby union), Dan Norton, Eddie Jones (rugby union), England national rugby sevens team, England national rugby union team, England national under-20 rugby union team, England women's national rugby union team, English rugby union system, European Rugby Challenge Cup, European Rugby Champions Cup, Exeter Chiefs, Flamingoes F.C., France national rugby union team, Frederick Stokes (rugby union), Gary Street, George Hotel, Huddersfield, Gipsies Football Club, Grand Slam (rugby union), Guy's, Kings and St Thomas' Rugby Football Club, Harlequin F.C., Industrial and provident society, Ireland national rugby union team, Italy national rugby union team, John Spencer (rugby union), King's College Hospital RFC, Lausanne F.C., Law FC, London Irish, Marlborough Nomads, Mohicans Football Club, Ollie Phillips (rugby union), Pall Mall Restaurant, Premiership Rugby, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Professional, Queen's House Football Club, Ravenscourt Park Football Club, Regent Street, RFU Championship, Richmond F.C., ..., Rob Andrew, Rugby Europe, Rugby Football League, Rugby Football Union for Women, Rugby School, Rugby union, Rugby union in England, Rugby World Cup, Rugby World Cup Sevens, Scotland national rugby union team, Semi-professional, Simon Amor, Simon Middleton, Six Nations Championship, St Paul's School, London, The Times, Triple Crown (rugby union), Twickenham Stadium, Wales national rugby union team, Wasps RFC, Wellington College, Berkshire, West Kent Football Club, Wimbledon RFC, Women's Premiership, Women's Rugby World Cup, World Rugby, World Rugby Rankings, World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year, World Rugby Sevens Series, Yorkshire Carnegie, 1991 Rugby World Cup, 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens, 1994 Women's Rugby World Cup, 2003 Rugby World Cup, 2007 Rugby World Cup, 2013 IRB Junior World Championship, 2014 IRB Junior World Championship, 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, 2016 World Rugby Under 20 Championship. Expand index (39 more) »

Addison Football Club

Addison was a 19th-century football club that played football by the rugby football codes.

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Andy Cosslett

Andrew Peter Cosslett (born 14 April 1955) is a British businessman and chairman of the Rugby Football Union, and Kingfisher plc.

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Army Rugby Union

The Army Rugby Union (ARU) is the governing body for rugby union in the British Army and a constituent body of the Rugby Football Union (RFU).

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Belsize Park FC

Belsize Park was a short-lived 19th century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union.

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Ben Gollings

Ben Gollings (born 13 May 1980) is an English former rugby union player who currently works as a rugby coach.

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Benjamin Burns

Benjamin Henry Burns (28 May 1848 – 3 June 1932) was a Scottish rugby union footballer who represented England in the first international match against Scotland in 1871.

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Blackheath F.C.

Blackheath Football Club is a rugby union club based in Well Hall, Eltham in south-east London, now playing National 1 league rugby at Well Hall, having moved from the famous Rectory Field in Blackheath at the end of the 2015-16 season.

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Civil Service F.C.

Civil Service Football Club is an English football club based in the city of London.

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Clapham Rovers F.C.

Clapham Rovers was from its foundation in 1869 a leading English sports organisation in the two dominant codes of football, association football and rugby union.

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Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

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County Championship (rugby union)

The County Championship is an annual rugby union competition in England between teams representing English counties.

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Dan Norton

Dan Norton (born 22 March 1988) is a rugby union player for the England rugby sevens national team.

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Eddie Jones (rugby union)

Eddie Jones (born 30 January 1960) is an Australian rugby union coach and former player.

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England national rugby sevens team

The England national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Commonwealth Games.

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England national rugby union team

The England national rugby union team competes in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Wales.

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England national under-20 rugby union team

The England Under 20 rugby team are the newest representative rugby union team from England.

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England women's national rugby union team

The England women's national rugby union team first played in 1982.

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English rugby union system

Rugby union in England consists of 101 leagues, which includes professional leagues at the highest level, down to amateur regional leagues.

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European Rugby Challenge Cup

The European Rugby Challenge Cup is an annual European rugby union competition organised by European Professional Club Rugby.

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European Rugby Champions Cup

The European Rugby Champions Cup (known as the Heineken Champions Cup for sponsorship reasons) is an annual rugby union tournament organised by European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR).

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Exeter Chiefs

Exeter Chiefs (officially Exeter Rugby Club) are an English professional rugby union club based in Exeter, Devon.

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Flamingoes F.C.

The Flamingoes was a 19th-century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union.

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France national rugby union team

The France national rugby union team competes annually against England, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales in the Six Nations Championship.

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Frederick Stokes (rugby union)

Frederick Stokes was the first captain of the England national rugby union team, who played for and captained the team in the first three rugby internationals, all between England and Scotland.

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Gary Street

Gary Street is an English rugby union coach.

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George Hotel, Huddersfield

The George Hotel in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, is a Grade II listed building famous as the birthplace of rugby league football in 1895.

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Gipsies Football Club

The Gipsies Football Club was a short lived 19th century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union, as well as producing a number of international players in the sport's early international fixtures.

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Grand Slam (rugby union)

In rugby union, a Grand Slam (Irish: Caithréim Mhór. Welsh: Y Gamp Lawn. French: Grand Chelem) occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship (or its Five Nations predecessor) manages to beat all the others during one year's competition.

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Guy's, Kings and St Thomas' Rugby Football Club

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Harlequin F.C.

The Harlequin Football Club (Harlequins or Quins for short) are an English rugby union team who play in the top level of English rugby, the English Premiership.

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Industrial and provident society

An industrial and provident society (IPS) was a legal entity for a trading business or voluntary organisation in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and New Zealand.

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Ireland national rugby union team

The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union.

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Italy national rugby union team

The Italy national rugby union team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship against the other top rugby teams in Europe.

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John Spencer (rugby union)

John Southern Spencer (born 10 August 1947) is a former England international rugby union player.

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King's College Hospital RFC

King's College Hospital RFC is an open rugby union club founded in the 19th century as a football club whose representatives were made up of medics from King's College Hospital.

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Lausanne F.C.

Lausanne was a 19th-century football club that fielded teams playing both the association football and rugby football codes.

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Law FC

Law, or The Law Club as it was also known, was a 19th-century football club that fielded teams playing by rugby football codes.

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London Irish

London Irish RFC is an English rugby union club, with an Irish Identity.

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Marlborough Nomads

The Marlborough Nomads was a 19th-century English rugby union club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union.

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Mohicans Football Club

Mohicans was a 19th-century football club that played football by the rugby football codes.

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Ollie Phillips (rugby union)

Ollie Phillips (born 8 September 1982) is a professional rugby union footballer who played wing or full back for Stade Français and England Sevens.

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Pall Mall Restaurant

The Pall Mall Restaurant was a hostelry situated at Number 1 Cockspur Street, Westminster, London, just off Pall Mall and near Trafalgar Square.

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Premiership Rugby

Premiership Rugby (officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership due to sponsorship reasons) is an English professional rugby union competition.

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September 1984) is a member of the British royal family.

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Professional

A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified professional activity.

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Queen's House Football Club

Queen's House was a 19th-century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union, as well as producing a number of international players in the sport's early international fixtures.

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Ravenscourt Park Football Club

Ravenscourt Park was a short lived 19th century English rugby union club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union, as well as supplying a number of international players for the sport's early international fixtures.

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Regent Street

Regent Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London.

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RFU Championship

The RFU Championship, known for sponsorship reasons as the Greene King IPA Championship from 2013–14, is the second tier of the English rugby union league system and was founded in September 1987.

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Richmond F.C.

Richmond Football Club is a rugby union club from Richmond, London.

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Rob Andrew

Christopher Robert "Rob" Andrew MBE (born 18 February 1963 in Richmond, Yorkshire), nicknamed "Squeaky", is a former English rugby union footballer and was, until April 2016, Professional Rugby Director at the RFU.

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Rugby Europe

Rugby Europe is the administrative body for rugby union in Europe.

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Rugby Football League

The Rugby Football League is the governing body for professional rugby league in England.

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Rugby Football Union for Women

The Rugby Football Union for Women (RFUW) was the governing body for women's rugby union in England.

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Rugby School

Rugby School is a day and boarding co-educational independent school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Rugby union in England

Rugby union in England is one of the leading professional and recreational team sports.

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Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams.

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Rugby World Cup Sevens

The Rugby World Cup Sevens is the premier stand-alone international rugby sevens competition outside the Olympic Games.

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Scotland national rugby union team

The Scotland national rugby union team is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union.

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Semi-professional

A semi-professional athlete is one for whom sport is not a full-time occupation.

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Simon Amor

Simon Daniel Edward Amor (born 25 April 1979) is an English former rugby union footballer who played at scrum-half or fly-half for London Scottish and is a former captain of the England Sevens team.

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Simon Middleton

Simon Middleton (born 2 February 1966) is an English former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Six Nations Championship

The Six Nations Championship (recently known as the NatWest 6 Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

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St Paul's School, London

St Paul's School is a selective independent school for boys aged 13–18, founded in 1509 by John Colet and located on a 43-acre (180,000m2) site by the River Thames, in Barnes, London.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Triple Crown (rugby union)

In rugby union, the Triple Crown is an honour contested annually by the "Home Nations" – i.e. England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales who compete within the larger Six Nations Championship.

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Twickenham Stadium

Twickenham Stadium (usually known as Twickenham or Twickers) is a rugby union stadium in Twickenham, south west London, England.

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Wales national rugby union team

The Wales national rugby union team (Tîm rygbi'r undeb cenedlaethol Cymru) competes annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland.

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Wasps RFC

Wasps Rugby Football Club is an English professional rugby union team based in Coventry, England.

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Wellington College, Berkshire

Wellington College is a British co-educational day and boarding independent school in the village of Crowthorne, Berkshire.

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West Kent Football Club

The West Kent Football Club was a short-lived 19th century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union, as well as producing a number of international players in the sport's early international fixtures.

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Wimbledon RFC

Wimbledon Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from Wimbledon, London.

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Women's Premiership

The Women's Premiership, also called the RFUW Premiership is the top level of women's rugby union in England.

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Women's Rugby World Cup

The Women's Rugby World Cup is the premier international competition in rugby union for women.

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World Rugby

World Rugby is the world governing body for the sport of rugby union and rugby sevens.

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World Rugby Rankings

The World Rugby Rankings (formerly the IRB Rankings) is a ranking system for men's national teams in rugby union, managed by World Rugby, the sport's governing body.

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World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year

The World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year is awarded by World Rugby each year.

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World Rugby Sevens Series

The World Rugby Sevens Series is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams.

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Yorkshire Carnegie

Yorkshire Carnegie (formerly Leeds Carnegie, Leeds Tykes and Leeds RUFC) are an English rugby union club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, who play in the RFU Championship.

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1991 Rugby World Cup

The 1991 Rugby World Cup was the second edition of the Rugby World Cup, and was jointly hosted by England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France; at that time, the five European countries that participated in the Five Nations Championship making it the first Rugby World Cup to be staged in the northern hemisphere, with England as the host of the championship game.

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1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens

The 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at Murrayfield in Edinburgh, Scotland, in April 1993.

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1994 Women's Rugby World Cup

The 1994 Women's Rugby World Cup was the second world cup for women.

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2003 Rugby World Cup

The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth Rugby World Cup and was won by England.

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2007 Rugby World Cup

The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987.

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2013 IRB Junior World Championship

The 2013 IRB Junior World Championship was the sixth annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams.

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2014 IRB Junior World Championship

The 2014 IRB Junior World Championship was the seventh annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams.

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2014 Women's Rugby World Cup

The 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup was the seventh edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup, and the sixth held in Europe.

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2016 World Rugby Under 20 Championship

The 2016 World Rugby Under 20 Championship was the ninth annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_Football_Union

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