The England national rugby team are one of the sport’s most successful sides. They’ve won the Six Nations Championship a record 29 times and they’re also the only team from the Northern Hemisphere to capture the Rugby World Cup.
On this page, you can discover everything there is to know about the England Rugby union team. As well as learning about the history of the England national rugby team, you can see the team’s upcoming fixtures and read all of the latest England Rugby team news.
Henry Arundell has the “world at his feet” if he is able to emulate the adaptability shown by Manchester City striker Erling Haaland, according to his England team-mate Jonny May.
Tom Curry has been pushing himself through a punishing training regime to ensure he is ready to face Samoa in England’s final World Cup group match.
The England national rugby team are one of the sport’s most successful sides. They’ve won the Six Nations Championship a record 29 times and they’re also the only team from the Northern Hemisphere to capture the Rugby World Cup.
On this page, you can discover everything there is to know about the England Rugby union team. As well as learning about the history of the England national rugby team, you can see the team’s upcoming fixtures and read all of the latest England Rugby team news.
The history of the England national rugby team dates all the way back to 1871. Although the side lost their first ever test match (and the first test match ever played) against Scotland, they very quickly began to dominate the Home Nations Championship (now the Six Nations Championship) after it launched in 1883.
When the Rugby World Cup was founded in 1987, the England Rugby team were invited to take part in the tournament’s inaugural edition and they reached the quarter-final stage. Only four years later, in the next edition of the tournament, they reached the final. Sadly, they fell to Australia at their home ground of Twickenham.
However, the England national rugby union team soon entered into a golden era where they went from being ‘nearly men’ to champions. In 2003, the side conquered all who came before them in the Six Nations Championship and won every game in the competition, claiming the Grand Slam in the process. Following this, they went into the 2003 edition of the World Cup on a high and won the tournament in dramatic fashion when a Jonny Wilkinson drop goal sealed victory against Australia in extra time of the final.
Although the England Rugby team have never won the Rugby World Cup again, they have finished as the tournament’s runners-up twice more (2007 and 2019). In addition, they won the Grand Slam again in 2016 and won 18 tests in a row between 2016 and 2017.
Overall, the England Rugby team have now won an impressive 29 Six Nations Championships. Of these, 13 were Grand Slam victories and 26 saw them win the Triple Crown by beating Ireland, Scotland and Wales. They’ve also been the number-one ranked team in the world on a number of occasions.
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Will Joseph Fullback As the England national rugby team have been so successful over the years, many famous faces and star players have represented England Rugby, including several greats of the game such as Martin Johnson and Jason Leonard, who are in the International Rugby Hall of Fame.
Currently, some of the finest players in world rugby play for the England Rugby union team, including lock Maro Itoje, fly-half Owen Farrell and wing Jonny May.
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