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      The following is a list of international rugby union teams:


      National teams – band classification


      Starting in 2008, in addition to the existing tier system, the IRB introduced a four-band system of classification in which unions are classified based on "their development status and record on the international stage". The new structure is:


      = High performance

      =
      All countries previously in Tiers 1 and 2. Now under "High Performance" status are still divided in "Tier 1" and "Tier 2".


      Tier 1




      Tier 2




      = Development One

      =
      These are countries earmarked for increased developmental funding and include:

      Chile
      Hong Kong
      Kenya
      Portugal
      Spain
      Zimbabwe


      = Targeted

      =
      The IRB did not release a list of unions in this category, but named several as World Cup hopefuls being in this band:

      Belgium
      Brazil
      Germany
      Ivory Coast
      Malaysia
      Netherlands
      Paraguay
      Poland
      South Korea
      Sri Lanka
      Philippines


      = Developmental

      =

      World Rugby associates in italics


      = Other teams

      =


      Multinational teams


      The British and Irish Lions.
      England
      Ireland
      Scotland
      Wales
      Established in 1950, East Africa conducted seven tours between 1954 and 1982 and played against incoming international, representative and club touring sides including twice against the British Lions; perhaps the only example of representative (as opposed to invitational) multinational teams playing against each other. They also played against the Barbarians.
      Kenya
      Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika)
      Uganda
      A similar development in 2004 has been the Pacific Islanders team.
      Fiji
      Samoa
      Tonga
      The South American Jaguars were a combination team who played South Africa during the early 1980s.
      Argentina
      Chile
      Uruguay
      The African Leopards are a development side drawn from across Africa, they have played representative rugby union against South African students.
      The Arabian Gulf rugby union team combined various teams from Arab countries in the Persian Gulf and competed in World Cup qualification. The Arabian Gulf Rugby Union has now been dismantled and responsibility for the game devolved to each of the member nations, although the team may be revived in the future.

      There was also a West Indies side, which first toured when the Caribbean Rugby Union sent a team (managed by Gavin Clark) to tour England in 1976. Their last tour was also to England in October and November 2000.
      The Commonwealth of Independent States played during the early 1990s.


      Defunct national sides


      Various national sides have ceased to exist for political reasons. In the case of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, there is more than one successor team. In the case of Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War and Franco's crackdown put an end to it, and in the case of East and West Germany, reunification led to their amalgamation into a single German side.

      Arabian Gulf* – dissolved by the end of 2010 and replaced by separate unions and national teams
      Catalonia
      CIS*
      Czechoslovakia
      East Africa* – a combination of Kenya, Tanzania/Tanganyika and Uganda. It has not played since 1982 but the Rugby Football Union of East Africa (RFUEA) still exists and there have been recent talks to resurrect the team
      East Germany
      Soviet Union
      Yugoslavia
      * For more information on these teams see above.


      Women's rugby




      = Defunct women's national sides

      =
      Catalonia
      Great Britain
      Soviet Union


      = Invitation sides

      =
      Nomads


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