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The Croatia national rugby union team is governed by the Croatian Rugby Union. Croatia have been playing internationals rugby since 1992, they have yet to qualify for the Rugby World Cup. The national side is ranked 46th in the world (as of 20 March 2023)

Internationals

Шаблон:Update-section Croatia played their first international on 28 November 1992, away against Bosnia & Herzegovina, and won 47–3. Croatia played four the following year with wins over Austria and Hungary. They then faced off against Italy, who won 76–11. The year finished off with a win over Morocco 36–12 but a loss to Spain .

The following year they won three of their five fixtures, though they lost to Ukraine and Luxembourg, though the following year, they were able to defeat Luxembourg in 1995. Croatia won a number of games in 1996–97, defeating the likes of Israel, Norway, Bulgaria, Latvia and Moldova and but losing to an experienced Georgia that year by 29–15.

1997 to 2000, Croatia played 11 International for 10 wins and 1 loss (to the Netherlands).

Croatia won five matches in a row from 2001 to 2002. Croatia started in round three of the 2007 Rugby World Cup European qualification tournament but were knocked out by Latvia and Andorra.

On St. Patrick's Day 17 March 2007, in Knin, the Croatian national team played an Irish Barbarians side and won the St. Pat's in Knin Cup.Шаблон:Fact

On 10 November 2007 Croatia defeated Malta 24–9 in Makarska. There are two internationals coming up in 2008 with Croatia taking on Andorra in Split (19 April) and away to Latvia in Riga (10 May)

Famous players

Croatia have a host of players who are New Zealanders, Australians and South Africans of Croatian origin who play the game and have played internationally for these countries. The first New Zealander of Croatian descent to play for Croatia was Brendon Winslow against Luxembourg in 1995.

Other New Zealanders, were Paul Vegar (North Shore, NZ reps), Paul Vujcich (Counties, Manurewa and North Shore) and the Graham brothers Rob and Reon (Counties, Patumahoe, Manurewa).

Anthony Posa was another New Zealander who played many times for Croatia (1996–2003), playing out of both the GHA RFC, Glasgow, Scotland and Beverley RUFC, Yorkshire, England. He is now Head Coach of the Yorkshire Under 20 County side which has won numerous English National County Championships and coaches professionally at the Doncaster club in England. His family originated from the Island of Korčula.

Frano Botica was a one time Croatian rugby player and former All Black, whose grandparents were also born in Korčula. Another former All Black who turned out for the Croatian side at the same time was Matthew Cooper. Dan Luger is an England representative whose father Darko Luger is from the island of Brac. Sean Fitzpatrick is another former All Black captain who has Croatian heritage.

Record

World Cup

World Cup record World Cup Qualification record
Year Round Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip
Шаблон:FlagiconШаблон:Flagicon 1987 Part of Yugoslavia: Not an independent country Part of Yugoslavia: Not an independent country
Шаблон:FlagiconШаблон:FlagiconШаблон:Flagicon 1991 Part of Yugoslavia: Not an independent country Part of Yugoslavia: Not an independent country
Шаблон:Flagicon 1995 did not enter did not enter
Шаблон:Flagicon 1999 did not qualify 8 6 0 2 297 172
Шаблон:Flagicon 2003 4 2 0 2 56 70
Шаблон:Flagicon 2007 4 1 0 3 76 86
Шаблон:Flagicon 2011 4 3 0 1 74 60
Шаблон:Flagicon 2015 4 1 0 3 78 92
Шаблон:Flagicon 2019 4 2 1 1 106 79
Шаблон:Flagicon 2023 Automatically eliminated
Total 0/9 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 15 1 12 687 559

European Competitions

Season Division Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip
2000 European Nations Cup Second Division 4 3 0 1 105 36 +29 9 2nd
2000-01 European Nations Cup Second Division 5 2 1 2 70 77 -7 10 4th
2002-04 European Nations Cup Second Division Pool B 8 3 1 4 114 95 +19 15 3rd
2006-08 European Nations Cup Second Division 2B 8 4 0 4 133 134 -1 16 3rd
2008-10 European Nations Cup Second Division 2B 8 6 0 2 161 114 +47 20 2nd
2010-12 European Nations Cup Second Division 2A 8 3 0 5 162 170 -8 19 4th
2012-14 European Nations Cup Second Division 2A 8 2 0 6 145 221 -76 11 4th
2014-16 European Nations Cup Second Division 2A 8 3 0 5 166 217 -51 17 3rd
2016-17 Rugby Europe Conference 1 South 4 2 1 1 106 79 +27 12 3rd
2017-18 Rugby Europe Conference 1 South 4 2 1 1 85 97 -12 11 2nd
2018-19 Rugby Europe Conference 1 South 4 3 1 0 123 69 +54 16 2nd
2019-20 Rugby Europe Conference 1 South 2 2 0 0 64 30 +34 9 1st
2021-22* Rugby Europe Conference 1 South 2 2 0 0 77 11 +66 10 1st

Overall

Below is a table of the representative rugby matches played by a Croatia national XV at test level up until 1 April 2023:

Opponent Played Won Lost Drawn % Won
Шаблон:Ru 7 5 1 1 71.43%
Шаблон:Ru 4 4 0 0 100%
Шаблон:Ru 4 2 2 0 50%
Шаблон:Ru 4 4 0 0 100%
Шаблон:Ru 1 1 0 0 100%
Шаблон:Ru 4 4 0 0 100%
Шаблон:Ru 5 1 4 0 20%
Шаблон:Ru 5 4 0 1 80%
Шаблон:Ru 1 0 1 0 0%
Шаблон:Ru 3 1 1 1 33.33%
Шаблон:Ru 4 4 0 0 100%
Шаблон:Ru 1 0 1 0 0%
Шаблон:Flagicon Italy A 1 0 1 0 0%
Шаблон:Ru 8 7 1 0 87.5%
Шаблон:Ru 8 6 2 0 75%
Шаблон:Ru 5 2 3 0 40%
Шаблон:Ru 2 1 1 0 50%
Шаблон:Ru 15 8 5 2 53.33%
Шаблон:Ru 1 1 0 0 100%
Шаблон:Ru 1 0 1 0 0%
Шаблон:Ru 5 1 4 0 20%
Шаблон:Ru 1 1 0 0 100%
Шаблон:Ru 3 1 2 0 33.33%
Шаблон:Ru 1 1 0 0 100%
Шаблон:Ru 1 1 0 0 100%
Шаблон:Ru 8 7 1 0 87.5%
Шаблон:Ru 2 0 1 1 0%
Шаблон:Ru 5 1 4 0 20%
Шаблон:Ru 9 2 7 0 22.22%
Шаблон:Ru 5 1 4 0 20%
Total 124 71 47 6 57.26%

Recent Matches

Current squad

The following players formed the squad for the 2021–22 Rugby Europe Conference 1 South match against Cyprus on 13 November 2021.[1]

  • Known Caps updated after match with Cyprus.

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See also

References

Шаблон:Reflist

External links

Шаблон:National rugby teams Шаблон:Croatian national teams