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Emblem | Bundesadler (Federal Eagle) | ||
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Union | German Rugby Federation | ||
Head coach | Dirk Frase and Paul McGuigan | ||
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World Rugby ranking | |||
Current | 21 (as of 9 January 2023) | ||
First international | |||
![]() ![]() ( West Berlin, West Germany 14 October 1989) | |||
Biggest win | |||
![]() ![]() ( Amsterdam, Netherlands 8 May 2003) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
![]() ![]() ( Amsterdam, Netherlands 2 May 1998) | |||
World Cup | |||
Appearances | 2 (First in 1998) |
The Germany women's national rugby union team are a national sporting side of Germany, representing them at rugby union. They made their first Rugby World Cup appearance at the 1998 tournament in the Netherlands, and made their last appearance at the 2002 Rugby World Cup in Spain. They regularly compete in the Rugby Europe Women's Championship.
The German women's national rugby union team was founded in 1989. Back then women's rugby was still part of the "Deutsche Rugby Jugend", the youth rugby organization in Germany. After only 2 training camps in Wiedenbrück and Hannover a team was formed with players from BSV 92 Berlin, DRC Hannover, RK Heusenstamm, SC Neuenheim, TV Wiedenbrück and SV 08 Ricklingen. For their first international match the German women met Sweden in Berlin in 1989 and lost only 0–8, and went on to qualify for the next two World Cups.
However German national teams (fifteens and sevens) have suffered from limited financial support, and after the European Championship finals in April 2005 (where Germany finished fourth) the DRV officially disbanded the XVs national team for financial reasons. Though this was reversed a year later at the next General Assembly of the DRV, it was a set-back and Germany have struggled to keep up with their neighbours in this form of the game.
Having played their last test match in 2010, Germany returned to test rugby in 2016 after a long six-year absence. In 2019 Germany withdrew from the European Championships due to financial difficulties. [1]
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Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | Squad | |||||||||||
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![]() | Shield Final | 14th | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 46 | 308 | Squad | |||||||||||
![]() | 15th Place Playoff | 16th | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 232 | Squad | |||||||||||
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Total | 2/9 | 14th† | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 65 | 540 | ||||||||||||
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(Full internationals only)
Opponent | First game | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Percentage |
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![]() | 2001 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 87.50% |
![]() | 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% |
![]() | 1997 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% |
![]() | 2007 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% |
![]() | 1997 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% |
![]() | 1997 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00% |
![]() | 1996 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.00% |
![]() | 1993 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25.00% |
![]() | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% |
![]() | 1992 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5.89% |
![]() | 2003 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% |
![]() | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% |
![]() | 1996 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00% |
![]() | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00% |
![]() | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% |
![]() | 1989 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 30.00% |
![]() | 2016 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% |
![]() | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00% |
Summary | 1989 | 64 | 18 | 1 | 45 | 28.13% |
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