The New Caledonia national rugby union team represents

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rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

. The team has been playing international rugby since the 1960s. All their matches have been against other teams from

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. New Caledonia has competed at the

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, winning a silver medal in 1966South Pacific Games 1966
ESPN Scrum. before finishing out of the medals at the 1969 games. The team won the gold medal in 1987, defeating Cook Islands in the final in Nouméa, and won gold again at the boycott-affected games in Papeete in 1995 where

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was the only other competing team. More recently, the team has played for the

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. In 2008, their win over fellow Pacific rivals

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, 32–20, paved their way to the final of the competition, but New Caledonia lost the match to

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, 5–27. __TOC__

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rugby.nc
official website (in French)

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