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Rugby union in Senegal is a moderately popular sport. The Senegal national team is currently ranked 54th by World Rugby.
Senegal is a founder member of the
IRB, 10 July 2014. and they created a union in 1960. For 20 to 30 years rugby was a game only for the French colonists and the military. Rugby was largely unknown among the Senegalese until the 1990s. In the late 1990s, the Fédération Sénégalaise de Rugby increased the visibility of the game among the Senegalese, with a new policy aiming to develop rugby in the schools. Rugby took off in 2005 when Senegal participated in their first Rugby World Cup qualifying and played six international games. In 2005, the national Rugby championships comprised just five clubs, all of them made up of French immigrants. Eight years later, there were 12 clubs, and all but one of them was fully Senegalese. In 2014, 18 clubs came to at least one of the national championships, whether it be men’s, women’s, Fifteens or Sevens. This has led to the International Rugby Board increasing its development grant every year. The Senegalese federation has been growing rugby in Senegal. The Senegalese federation receives technical and training support from the IRB and the Confédération Africaine de Rugby (CAR), where professionals come to Senegal and deliver short, intensive courses.
IRB Senegal page
official union page
CAR
Senegal
on rugbydata.com *
Les S'en Fout le Score
Charognards XV
Les Lionceaux (École de rugby)
(photographs)
Senegal sanctioned for misconduct
Governing body
The governing body is the Fédération Sénégalaise de Rugby.IRB.com retrieved on 23 June 2009History
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Rugby has been played in Senegal by French colonialists since the 1920s,"Senegal rugby ready to make a move"IRB, 10 July 2014. and they created a union in 1960. For 20 to 30 years rugby was a game only for the French colonists and the military. Rugby was largely unknown among the Senegalese until the 1990s. In the late 1990s, the Fédération Sénégalaise de Rugby increased the visibility of the game among the Senegalese, with a new policy aiming to develop rugby in the schools. Rugby took off in 2005 when Senegal participated in their first Rugby World Cup qualifying and played six international games. In 2005, the national Rugby championships comprised just five clubs, all of them made up of French immigrants. Eight years later, there were 12 clubs, and all but one of them was fully Senegalese. In 2014, 18 clubs came to at least one of the national championships, whether it be men’s, women’s, Fifteens or Sevens. This has led to the International Rugby Board increasing its development grant every year. The Senegalese federation has been growing rugby in Senegal. The Senegalese federation receives technical and training support from the IRB and the Confédération Africaine de Rugby (CAR), where professionals come to Senegal and deliver short, intensive courses.
National team
The Senegal national team has been playing regular international rugby since 2003. In 2005, Senegal participated in their first Rugby World Cup qualifying, and played six international games. The Senegalese union identified players of Senegal origin in France, and tried to build a stronger national team with expats to raise the profile of the game. Senegal are ranked in the top ten in Africa and in the top 50 in the world. They have shown that they can compete with the other African countries: in 2012, they lost to Namibia by just two points, and by only three in 2008.Players
Notable Senegalese players includeMax Brito
Max Brito (8 April 1968 – 19 December 2022) was an Ivorian rugby union player on the Ivory Coast rugby team. As a result of injuries sustained at the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, he was paralysed. As of 2007, he could only move hi ...
, who played for the Ivory Coast's national side, and had a notorious accident in the Rugby World Cup
The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams. The tournament is administered by World Rugby, the sport's international governing body. The winners are awarded the Webb E ...
.
See also
*Senegal national rugby union team
The Senegal national rugby union team represent Senegal in the sport of rugby union. They are ranked as a tier-three nation by the International Rugby Board (IRB). Senegal have thus far not qualified for a Rugby World Cup, but have competed in qua ...
* Confederation of African Rugby
Rugby Africa, is the administrative body for rugby union within the continent of Africa under the authority of World Rugby, which is the world governing body of rugby union. , Rugby Africa has 37 member nations and runs several rugby tournaments ...
* Africa Cup
External links
IRB Senegal page
official union page
CAR
Senegal
on rugbydata.com *
Les S'en Fout le Score
Charognards XV
Les Lionceaux (École de rugby)
(photographs)
Senegal sanctioned for misconduct
References