Hungary women's national rugby union team

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Union Hungarian Rugby Union
Coach(es) Flag of Hungary.svg László Csont
Captain(s) Flag of Hungary.svg Mária Gyolcsos
Most caps (-)
Top scorer(-)
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The Hungary national women's rugby union team are the national women's rugby union team of Hungary. They have thus far only played in sevens tournaments and they have yet to qualify for the Women's Rugby World Cup.

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On 5 April 2010 they won the ENTC (Emerging Nations Training Camp) Test European Championship 7s which was held in the village of Zánka, Hungary. [1] They beat Poland 24–0 in the final.

On 2014 they won the European Division B tournament which was held in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. They beat Serbia 43-0 and Luxemburg with 47–0, and they won against Israel with 35–12 at the semi-finals. They won the finals against Lithuania with 40–5. [2]

Results

2010

Women's rugby – Hungarian internationals in 2010
DateLocationOppositionResultTournament
1–5 AprilZánkaFlag of Finland.svg  Finland 21-5ENTC Test European Championship 7s
1–5 AprilZánka Flag of Poland.svg Poland14-10ENTC Test European Championship 7s
1–5 AprilZánkaFlag of Austria.svg  Austria 29-5ENTC Test European Championship 7s
1–5 AprilZánkaFlag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 26-0ENTC Test European Championship 7s
1–5 AprilZánka Flag of Poland.svg Poland24-10ENTC Test European Championship 7s (Final)

Current squad

The squad [3] for the 2010 ENTC Test European Championship 7s:

  1. Mária Gyolcsos
  2. Csilla Fehér
  3. Noémi Kis
  4. Beáta Szalai
  5. Brigitta Kiss
  6. Anita Deák
  7. Zsuzsanna Jakab
  8. Beatrix Sólyom
  9. Anett Pintér
  10. Veronika Kovács
  11. Aliz Krizsák
  12. Katalin Huszti
  13. Judit Kovács

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References

  1. FIRA-AER website - ENTC V + Test European Championship 2010
  2. "Hungary bounce back to Euro Division A". Archived from the original on 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2014-11-02.
  3. (in Hungarian) Piros-Fehér-Zöldre festett tojás labda Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine