The Fiji national rugby union team represents Fiji in men's international rugby union competes every four years at the Rugby World Cup, and their best performances were the 1987 and 2007 tournaments when they defeated Argentina and Wales respectively to reach the quarterfinals. Fiji also regularly plays test matches during the June and November test windows. Fiji also plays in the Pacific Tri-Nations, and has won the most Pacific Tri-Nations Championships of the three participating teams.
The Canada national rugby union team represents Canada in men's international rugby union and it is governed by Rugby Canada, and play in red and white. Canada is classified by World Rugby as a tier two rugby nation. Canada competes in competitions such as the Americas Rugby Championship and the Rugby World Cup.
In sport, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance in a game at international level. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of association football. In the early days of football, the concept of each team wearing a set of matching shirts had not been universally adopted, so each side would distinguish itself from the other by wearing a specific sort of cap.
New Zealand and Argentina have been playing each other in the sport of rugby union since 1976.
The history of rugby union matches between Argentina and Ireland is one of a very even contest. As of October 2015, the sides have met twenty one times with a result of twelve wins to Ireland, eight to Argentina and one drawn game, however, five of these matches were not a fully test capped match for Ireland. At the end of the 2010 Autumn Internationals there was only a nineteen-point difference in cumulative points scored. The largest winning margin of 23 points was recorded in the meeting of their 2015 Rugby World Cup quarter-final, when Argentina won by 43 points to 20. However, Argentina have yet to beat Ireland on Irish soil, and Ireland have only won twice in Argentina. Ireland's first win against Argentina was in 1952, however it was only a capped match for Argentina. Ireland's first fully test capped match win in Argentina came in 2014.
France and Wales have played each other at rugby union since 1908. A total of 100 matches have been played, with Wales winning 51 times, France 46 times and the remaining three finishing as draws.
The national rugby union teams of Scotland and Argentina have played since 1969. However, the status of the countries' first three matches—two in 1969 and one in 1973—is ambiguous, as only Argentina awarded Test caps for those encounters. The first match recognised by both sides as a Test took place in 1990.
The national rugby union teams of England and Italy have been playing each other in Test rugby since 1991, and by November 2020, they had met in 27 test matches, all of which have been won by England.
Since 1909, France and Ireland have played each other in a total of 99 test matches, with France winning 57 times, Ireland winning 35 times and seven matches drawn.
France and Italy have played each other at rugby union a total of 42 matches, with France winning 39 times, Italy winning 3 times, and no matches drawn. Since 2007, the winner of the meeting between the teams in the Six Nations Tournament has received the Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy.
Australia and Italy have played each other at rugby union a total of 18 matches, all won by Australia.
Wales and Fiji have played each other at rugby union since 1985, when Wales won the inaugural game 40-3. Since then they have played each other on several occasions, including four times at the Rugby World Cup - once in the 2007 Rugby World Cup, once in the 2011 Rugby World Cup, once in the 2015 Rugby World Cup and once in the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Wales have won the majority of the games, winning ten out of the twelve matches played. Fiji has won once, with one draw in 2010.
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The Samoa national rugby union team and the Fiji national rugby union team have played each other on 53 occasions, with Fiji winning the most at 30 wins to Samoa's 20.
Ireland and United States first played each other at rugby union in 1994 when Ireland won 26-15 at their home ground, Lansdowne Road, in Dublin. They have played each other nine times, five times in the United States and three times in Ireland. The other match was at a neutral venue in New Zealand in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Ireland and the US also played each other in the 1999 Rugby World Cup but the fixture was played at Ireland's home ground. Ireland have won all nine matches played between the teams.
Canada and France have played each other 8 times with France winning 7 off the meetings. They have met each other 3 times during the Rugby World Cup; 1991, 1999 and 2011, with Les Bleus winning all the meetings.
France and the United States have played each other a total of 8 times, with France winning 6 of the matches, and the United States winning 2. They first played each other in 1920 at Olympisch Stadion in Antwerp, Belgium during the 1920 Summer Olympics final. The United States won the match 8-0.
Ireland and Fiji have played each other four times with Ireland winning all 4 meetings. An uncapped Ireland XV has also played Fiji three times winning all three games.
Ireland and Canada first played each other at rugby union in 1987 when Ireland won 33-11 in Dunedin in the group stage of the inaugural rugby world cup. They have played each other eight times, three times in Canada and three times in Ireland, with the other two matches in neutral venues as part of the 1987 and 2015 rugby world cups. Ireland have won seven of the eight matches played between the teams, with one draw.
The Autumn Nations Cup is a rugby union competition being held in November and December 2020 in place of the usual Autumn internationals series typically held in the same period each year, as many teams are avoiding extended travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight teams are participating – the teams involved in the Six Nations Championship plus Georgia and Fiji – divided into two groups of four. Japan were originally going to take part, but withdrew due to travel restrictions, resulting in them being replaced by Georgia, moving Fiji to Group B.
