Union: | Gibraltar Rugby Football Union |
Pattern B1: | _whitehoops |
Leftarm1: | FF0000 |
Body1: | CC0000 |
Rightarm1: | FF0000 |
Shorts1: | FFFFFF |
Socks1: | FF0000 |
First: | 8 – 20 Belgium XV (5 November 2011) |
Bigwin: | 55 – 7 Montenegro (5 November 2016) |
No World Cup Apps: | 0 |
Current: | 20 - 15 Jamaica (25 March 2023) |
The Gibraltar national rugby union team represent Gibraltar in men's rugby union.
The nation is not currently affiliated to World Rugby and have yet to qualify for a World Cup.
On 5 November 2011 the Gibraltar Rugby Football Union (GRFU) fielded a national team in its first official Test Match. The fixture was against the Belgium Development Team and was held in Brussels. The final score was: Belgium Development 20 – Gibraltar 8.
Test Caps have officially been awarded to the Gibraltar team players, this came after playing and defeating a Cyprus XV and an Israel A team. Their first full international came against Malta in March 2015.
The GRFU went through the process of FIRA/AER (European Rugby Federation) membership.[1] The GRFU had planned other international fixtures for April 2012. This however was blocked by Spain.[2] This came as a surprise as UEFA and the ICC recognise Gibraltar.
The Gibraltar national rugby sevens team plays regularly in tournaments, particularly in the Tangier Sevens.
width=6% | Date | width=7% | Home | width=4% | Score | width=6% | Away | width=10% | Venue | width=9% | Referee | width=9% | Competition |
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5 November 2011 | Belgium XV | 20–8 | Brussels, Belgium | unknown | Friendly (First International) | ||||||||
23 March 2013 | 36–10 | Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar | unknown | Friendly | |||||||||
22 February 2014 | 25–12 | Israel A | Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar | Julian Bevan (SWE) | Friendly | ||||||||
7 March 2015 | 8–33 | Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar | Ranbir Dhillon (GBR) | Friendly (First full International) | |||||||||
17 October 2015 | 14–29 | Malta | unknown | Friendly | |||||||||
6 April 2016 | 49–0 | unknown | Friendly | ||||||||||
8 April 2016 | 13–13 | unknown | Friendly | ||||||||||
5 November 2016 | 7–55 | Petra Druskovic (CRO) | Friendly | ||||||||||
8 April 2017 | 22–17 | Matthew Shales (GBR) | Friendly | ||||||||||
6 October 2017 | 15–21 | unknown | Friendly | ||||||||||
24 February 2018 | 33–14 | George Pounder (SRU) | Friendly | ||||||||||
17 March 2018 | 17–5 | Fergus Hollins (SRU) | Friendly | ||||||||||
27 April 2018 | 28–15 | R. Drake | Friendly | ||||||||||
10 October 2018 | 20–17 | unknown | Friendly | ||||||||||
13 April 2019 | 26–22 | unknown | Friendly | ||||||||||
4 May 2019 | 26–31 | David Young (SRU) | Friendly | ||||||||||
28 September 2019 | 22–6 | Charles Samson (SRU) | Friendly | ||||||||||
9 October 2022 | 33-16 | National Sports Centre, Bermuda | unknown | Friendly | |||||||||
26 November 2022 | 18-36 | Birmingham Moseley Rugby | unknown | Friendly | |||||||||
25 March 2023 | 20-15 | Europa Point, Gibraltar | Elgan Williams (WRU) | Friendly |