Austria national rugby union team

Austria national rugby union team

Infobox rugby team
country = Austria


imagesize = 80px
union = Österreichischer Rugby Verband
nickname =
coach =
from =
captain = Andreas Gaul
caps =
top scorer
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first = ru-rt|HUN 23 - 9 ru|AUT
(3 March 1992)
bigwin = ru-rt|AUT 77 - 0 ru|LUX
(12 May 2001)
bigloss = ru-rt|AUT 0 - 78 ru|UKR
(14 May 1994)

Austria is a third tier rugby union playing nation. They began playing international rugby in the early 1990s. Thus far, Austria has not made an appearance at any of the World Cups.

History

Austria played their first official international on March 3, 1992 against Hungary, losing 23 points to nine. Austria had another fixture against Hungary that year, as well as two games against Slovenia. Austria played nations such as Croatia and Ukraine as well as regulars Slovenia.

Austria's first win came against Serbia & Montenegro in 1996, winning three points to nil. Austria began winning more games, and only loss a few sparodic matches in the late 1990s, as they were now beating the European sides that had beaten them in the early 1990s. During the 2000s Austria were now playing a larger variety of nations. After not winning one game in 2002, Austria went on to win every fixture in 2004, creating an undefeated streak which was broken by Denmark in 2005.

Other

On 3rd of May, 2008, an incident took place in the town centre of Vilnius, Lithuania, where about 20 of the team members performed an unusual, unofficial nude drunken act. Austrian Rugby Union has issued an apology and stated that the behaviour was unnaceptable.

External links

* [http://www.rugby-austria.at Österreichischer Rugby Verband] - Official Site de icon


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