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rugby union

team sport, code of rugby football
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Summary

rugby union is a team sport[1]. It draws 17,743 Wikipedia views per month (team sport category, ranking #2 of 18).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of sport[3]
  • Subclass of: rugby[4]
  • Commons category: Rugby union[5]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[6]
  • Inception: 1823[7]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1823[8]
  • Authority: World Rugby[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Rugby union[10]
  • Commons gallery: Rugby union[11]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Rugby union[12]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=rugby_union[13], sport=rugby[14]
  • Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16]
  • Different from: football[17], rugby league[18], Rugby[19]
  • Uses: rugby union ball[20], rugby union field[21]
  • Practiced by: rugby union player[22], rugby union coach[23], rugby union executive[24]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25]

Why It Matters

rugby union has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

All.Rugby Anne McClain Camille Chautemps Che Guevara Eric Liddell Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy Invictus Jacques Chaban-Delmas Jacques Rogge Jean-Baptiste Charcot Michael Skinner Pierre de Coubertin Piotrków Kujawski Sonny Bill Williams Sylvain Bourbon United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → football, rugby league, Rugby
    P14692 → ['Q7481', 'Q7394']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 11w ago · Blackcat · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → football, rugby league, Rugby
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: rugby league"
  3. 18w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14537 → ['z3989qt', 'zcpnhv4', 'zp2m7hv', 'zx72qty', 'zyyvfrd']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14537: z3989qt, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/294227260|Rugby (#294227260)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8060|‎BBC Bitesize topics]] #"
  4. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Uses → rugby union ball, rugby union field
    Authority → World Rugby
    Subclass of → —
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007546333005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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