Rugby Union Tickets

Date	Events	Venue
Tue, Nov 17, 2009 (19:45)	Saracens V South Africa Tickets	Wembley Stadium London United Kingdom
Sat, Dec 05, 2009 (19:00)	New Zealand V Barbarians Tickets	Twickenham Stadium London United Kingdom
Sat, Apr 24, 2010 (10:00)	London Wasps V Bath Tickets ST George Match	Twickenham Stadium London United Kingdom
Sun, May 30, 2010 (12:00)	England V Barbarians Tickets	Twickenham Stadium London United Kingdom
Sat, Aug 14, 2010 (10:00)	Middlesex Charity Sevens Tickets	Twickenham Stadium London United Kingdom

Get Rugby Union Tickets from Sold Out Ticket Market at low cost.

Rugby union in 2009

Here is the complete list of fixtures and results of test match rugby in 2009 all major international competitions.

International competitions

Worldwide

• 2008-09 IRB Sevens World Series — Winners: South Africa
• 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens — Winners: Wales (men), Australia (women)
• 2009 IRB Junior World Championship — Winners: New Zealand
• 2009 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy — Winner: Romania
• Nations Cup — Winners: Scotland A

Africa

• 2009 Tri Nations Series — Winners: South Africa
• 2009 Africa Cup
• 2009 Castel Beer Trophy
• 2011 Rugby World Cup - Africa qualification

Asia

• 2009 Asian Five Nations – Winner: Japan
• 2009 Asian Five Nations - Division One – Winner: Arabian Gulf
• 2009 Asian Five Nations - Division Two – Winner: Malaysia
• 2009 Asian Five Nations - Division Three – Winner: Philippines
• 2009 Asian Five Nations - Regional Divisions
• Division 1: Laos
• Division 2: Uzbekistan
• 2011 Rugby World Cup - Asia qualification

Europe

• 2009 Six Nations Championship — Winner: Ireland
• 2008-2010 European Nations Cup First Division- Winner: Ongoing
• 2008-2010 European Nations Cup Division 2A - Winner: Ongoing
• 2008-2010 European Nations Cup Division 2B - Winner: Ongoing
• 2008-2010 European Nations Cup Division 3A - Winner: Ongoing
• 2008-2010 European Nations Cup Division 3B - Winner: Ongoing
• 2008-2010 European Nations Cup Division 3C - Winner: Ongoing
• 2008-2010 European Nations Cup Division 3D -Winner: Ongoing
• 2011 Rugby World Cup - Europe qualification

North America

• 2009 Churchill Cup - Ireland A
• 2011 Rugby World Cup - Americas qualification

Oceania

• 2009 Tri Nations Series — Winners: South Africa
• 2009 Pacific Nations Cup – Junior All Blacks
• 2011 Rugby World Cup - Oceania qualification

South America

• 2009 South American Rugby Championship
• 2011 Rugby World Cup - Americas qualification

Get Rugby Union Tickets from Sold Out Ticket Market at low cost.

Major International Competitions

International tournaments

Name	Participants		First played	Last played	Frequency
Rugby World Cup	Top 12 teams from previous World Cup (the top 3 in each group) plus 8 nations chosen from regional qualifying tournament.		1987	2007	Quadrennial
Women's Rugby World Cup	12 top national women's teams		1991	2006	Quadrennial
Six Nations Championship	England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales		1883	2009	Annually
Women's Six Nations Championship	England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales		1996	2009	Annually
Tri Nations	Australia, New Zealand, South Africa		1996	2009	Annually
Canada Cup	Canada, plus up to three other invitational teams.		1993	2005	Approximately biennial
Churchill Cup	Canada, England Saxons, United States and three invitational teams.		2003	2009	Annually
FIRA Women's European Championship	Up to 16 European national teams		1988	2008	Annually
European Nations Cup	36 European national teams		2000	2009	Annually
Pacific Nations Cup	Australia A, Fiji, Japan, Junior All Blacks, Samoa, Tonga		2006	2009	Annually
Nations Cup	Argentina A, Italy A, Namibia, Georgia, Romania, Emerging Springboks		2006	2009	Annually
Asian 5 Nations	Top five Asian sides		2008	2009	Annually

There are many other tournaments as well but due to shortage of time m uploading few but popular one.

Get Rugby Union Tickets from Sold Out Ticket Market at low cost.

Rugby Union History

Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire

The origin of rugby is reputed to be an incident during a game of English school football at Rugby School, Rugby, England, in 1823 when William Webb-Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it. Although this tale is apocryphal, the Rugby World Cup trophy is named after him. Rugby football stems from a game played at Rugby School, Rugby, which old pupils initially took to university; with Cambridge believing that Old Rugbeian Albert Pell was the first student to form a 'football' team. During this early period different schools used different rules, with former pupils from Rugby and Eton attempting to carry their preferred rules through to their universties.

Significant events in the early development of rugby were the production of the first set of written laws at Rugby School in 1845, the Blackheath Club's decision to leave The Football Association in 1863 and the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. The code was originally known simply as "rugby football"; it was not until after a schism in 1895, which resulted in the separate code of rugby league, that the name "rugby union" came to be used for the game itself. Supporters of both codes will frequently refer to theirs as merely "rugby", unless they are differentiating between the two.

The first rugby international took place on 27 March 1871, played between England and Scotland. By 1881 both Ireland and Wales had representative teams, and in 1883 the first international competition, the Home Nations Championship had begun. 1883 also saw the first rugby sevens tournament at Melrose - the Melrose Sevens, which is still held annually. Five years later two important overseas tours took place; a British Isles team visited Australia and New Zealand - although a private venture, it laid the foundations for future British and Irish Lions tours; and the 1888 New Zealand Native team brought the first overseas team to British spectators.

From 1905 through to 1907, all three major Southern Hemisphere rugby countries sent their first touring teams to the Northern Hemisphere; Dave Gallaher's New Zealand in 1905, followed by Paul Roos' South Africa in 1906 and then Herbert Moran's Australia. All three teams brought new styles of play, fitness levels and tactics, and were far more successful than critics at first believed. 1905 also saw the first French internationals.

The years during both World Wars saw an end of international rugby games and union-sponsored club matches, but competitions continued with service teams such as the New Zealand Army team.

In 1973 the first officially sanctioned international sevens tournament took place at Murrayfield, as part of the Scottish Rugby Union centenary celebrations. In 1987 the first Rugby World Cup was held in New Zealand and Australia, and the inaugural winners were New Zealand. The first World Cup Sevens tournament was held at Murrayfield in 1993.

Rugby union was famously an amateur sport until the IRB declared the game 'open' in 1995, removing restrictions on payments to players. However, the pre-1995 period of rugby union was marked by frequent accusations of "shamateurism" in some quarters.

Get Rugby Union Tickets from Sold Out Ticket Market at low cost.

Rugby Union

Rugby union is a full contact team sport, a form of football which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. It is played with an oval-shaped ball, outdoors on a level field, usually with a grass surface, 100 m long and 70 m wide. At each end of the field is an H-shaped goal. It is one of the most popular sports in the world, being played in over a hundred countries, on every continent.

William Webb Ellis is often credited with the invention of running with the ball in hand when, in 1823, at Rugby School he caught the ball while playing football, and ran towards the opposition goal. Ellis was immortalised at the school with a plaque commemorating his innovation. 25 years later the first rules were written by pupils - this was one of recognized events in the early development of rugby; others include the Blackheath Club's decision to leave The Football Association in 1863, and in 1895, the split between rugby union and rugby league.

Rugby union has been governed by the International Rugby Board since its formation in 1886 and currently has a membership of 115 national unions. In 1995 the IRB removed restrictions on payments to players, making the famously amateur game professional at the highest levels.

The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years, with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup. The Six Nations in Europe and the Tri Nations in the southern hemisphere are major international competitions held annually. Major domestic competitions include the Top 14 in France, the Guinness Premiership in England, the Currie Cup in South Africa, and the Air New Zealand Cup in New Zealand. The Magners League is a transnational competition involving the three Celtic nations of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, with Italian involvement planned starting in 2010–11.

Get Rugby Union Tickets from Sold Out Ticket Market at low cost.

Rugby

Rugby football (usually just "rugby") may refer to a number of sports through history descended from a common form of football developed in different areas of the United Kingdom. Today it refers to either rugby league or rugby union.

Get Rugby Union Tickets from Ticket Market at low cost.