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- The team takes part in the annual Six Nations Championship, where they are the current Calcutta Cup and Doddie Weir Cup holders. They also participate in the Rugby World Cup, which takes place every four years. As of 14 February 2024, Scotland are 6th in the World Rugby Rankings.
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The World Rugby Rankings is a ranking system for national teams in rugby union, managed by World Rugby, the sport's governing body. There are separate men's and women's rankings. The teams of World Rugby's member nations are ranked based on their game results, with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
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Scotland: 18 March 2017: 9-13 Ireland: 17 Ireland: 9 July...
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1873–1920s
The Scottish Football Union was founded on Monday 3 March 1873 at a meeting held at Glasgow Academy, Elmbank Street, Glasgow. Eight clubs were represented at the foundation, Glasgow Academicals; Edinburgh Academical Football Club; West of Scotland F.C.; University of St Andrews Rugby Football Club; Royal High School FP; Merchistonians; Edinburgh University RFC; and Glasgow University. Five of these clubs were, at the time of founding the Scottish Football Union, already members of the previou...
1990s–present
The SRU owns Murrayfield Stadium which is the main home ground of the Scottish national team, though in 2004 international rugby games were played at Hampden Park in Glasgow and McDiarmid Park in Perth, as part of the SRU's campaign to reach out to new audiences outside the traditional rugby areas. When the Heineken Cup (now replaced by the European Rugby Champions Cup) was suggested SRU officials were concerned that Scottish club sides could not compete against the best teams from France and...
Centenary celebrations
The SRU celebrated its centenary in 1973 with a number of events. Among these was the 1973 International Seven-A-Side Tournament, the first sevens tournament to have national representative sides. The programme for that event also sported the new coat of arms of the SRU that was granted by the Lord Lyon King of Arms on 28 February 1973, for the centenary season. The coat of arms is still in use today, but in the main the SRU use the commercial thistle logo on jerseys and stationary. The coat...
The SRU oversees the national league system, known as the Scottish League Championship, and consisting of: 1. a Premiershipof 20 teams across 2 divisions. 2. a National Leaguesof 20 teams across 2 regional divisions. 3. Regional Leaguesof 150 clubs in 18 divisions across three regions It also oversees the Scottish Cup. It is not directly responsibl...
The SRU oversees Scotland's national teams. The most prominent team is the Scotland national rugby union team, which competes in the Six Nations tournament every year and in the Rugby World Cup every four years. The SRU also oversees the Scotland national sevens team, which competes every year in the World Rugby Sevens Series. And the SRU oversees ...
On 28 March 2019, the SRU announced that it had taken a minority stake in Old Glory DC, a team set to begin play in Major League Rugby (MLR), the current top level of the sport in the United States and Canada, in 2020. As MLR operates on a "single-entity" business model similar to the two countries' Major League Soccer, with the league owning all t...
The current president is Ian Barr who succeeded Dee Bradbury on 15 August 2020. John McGuigan was appointed Chair in May 2023.The Chief Executive Officer is Mark Dodson. In May 2014, it was announced that Sheila Begbiehad been appointed to the newly created post of Head of Women's Rugby, reporting directly to the Director of Rugby and she was due t...
Scotland has played international rugby union since 1871, when they beat England in their first Test match. Scotland have competed in every Rugby World Cup. The records listed below only include performances in Test matches. The top five are listed in each category.
TriesPlayerOpposing TeamVenue3Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh3Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh3Shizuoka Stadium, Fukuroi3Murrayfield Stadium, EdinburghAccording to the International Rugby Board as of September 2010, Scotland has 241 rugby union clubs; 343 referees; 7,556 pre-teen male players; 13,402 teen male players; 10,556 senior male players (total male players 31,514) as well as 1,303 (total) female players.
6 February, 2023. · 1 min read. Scotland have moved above England and into fifth place in the World Rugby Men’s Rankings powered by Capgemini following their 29-23 win at Twickenham on Saturday.
