Rugby Union

World Rugby has announced plans to add 17 female representatives to its Council in a move designed to further promote gender equality across the organisation.

French Rugby Federation (FFR) president Bernard Laporte has said he will stand for a second term in office, but added that this will be his last spell in charge if he gains re-election.

The organising committees for the 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2021 World Masters Games have agreed a partnership designed to maximise the benefits and impact of each event in Japan.

France is set to host major sporting events in consecutive years after it yesterday (Wednesday) landed the rights to the 2023 Rugby World Cup, despite World Rugby having earlier recommended South Africa’s bid.

Former Synergy chief executive Tim Crow says the Six Nations rugby union tournament's stop-gap title sponsorship with NatWest is symptomatic of a soft UK sports sponsorship market. In the first of a series of columns for SportBusiness International, he gives four reasons why sport is struggling to find buyers.

South Africa’s Sports Minister, Thulas Nxesi, has hit back at criticism of World Rugby’s decision to recommend the country as host of the 2023 World Cup stating the “latter day prophets and naysayers” will be proven wrong.

Steve Tew, chief executive of New Zealand Rugby (NZR), has rubbished talk of a hybrid game taking place between the All Blacks and Australia’s national rugby league team.

World Rugby today (Thursday) announced details of an increased investment into Fiji, Tonga and Samoa in co-operation with Pacific Rugby Players, the body representing players in the region, while the sport’s global governing body has again defended its under-fire bidding process for the 2023 World Cup.

More than WST$350,000 (€119,000/$138,000) has been generated in a fundraiser for the Samoa Rugby Union after SRU chairman, and the Pacific Island nation’s Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, declared that the sport’s governing body was “insolvent”.

The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has ramped up the pressure on World Rugby following last week’s decision to recommend South Africa as host of the 2023 World Cup by issuing a formal complaint over the process to the sport’s global governing body.

Premier League football club Swansea City has agreed terms on a deal with Swansea Council to take on full operational control of its Liberty Stadium home.

World Rugby has said it will contact the French Rugby Federation (FFR) to “raise its concerns” after FFR president Bernard Laporte accused the world governing body of “amateurism” in the process by which it last week backed South Africa as the proposed host of the 2023 World Cup.

In the first part of a series on frictionless stadium technology, Ben Cronin examines how Bath Rugby has invested in a piece of white label software that allows fans to pre-order half-time drinks and snacks.

World Rugby and the local organising committee for the 2019 World Cup have today (Thursday) unveiled the schedule and ticketing programme for the national team tournament under a scheme that seeks to make it accessible for the whole of Japan.

France and Ireland have vowed to fight on in their efforts to land the 2023 Rugby World Cup after seeing South Africa’s bid backed by the sport’s world governing body.

South Africa is poised to land the 2023 Rugby World Cup after World Rugby today (Tuesday) announced that it has unanimously recommended the country’s bid for its showpiece national team competition ahead of rival offers from France and Ireland.