1995 Rugby World Cup squads
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This article lists the official squads for the 1995 Rugby World Cup in
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from 25 May to 24 June 1995. Players marked (c) were named as captain for their national squad. All details, such as number of international caps and player age, are current as of the opening day of the tournament on 25 May 1995.


Pool A


Australia

Head coach: Bob Dwyer


Canada

Head coach:
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Romania

Head coaches: Mircea Paraschiv /
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South Africa

* James Dalton and
Pieter Hendriks Pieter Hendriks (born 13 April 1970), is a former South African rugby union player who played for the South Africa national rugby union team between 1992 and 1996. Playing career Hendriks represented the South Eastern Transvaal Schools team at ...
were banned from the tournament for fighting in their pool match against Canada and were replaced by
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and
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respectively. Head coach:
Kitch Christie George Moir Christie, better known as Kitch Christie (31 January 1940 – 22 April 1998), was a South African rugby union coach best known for coaching the country's national team, the Springboks, to victory at the 1995 Rugby World Cup. He remai ...


Pool B


Argentina

Head coaches: Alejandro Petra and
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England

Head coach:
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Italy

Head coach: Georges Coste


Western Samoa

Head coach:
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Pool C


Ireland

Head coach: Gerry Murphy


Japan

Head coach: Osamu Koyabu


New Zealand

Head coach:
Laurie Mains Laurence William Mains (born 16 February 1946) is a former rugby union footballer and coach who represented New Zealand. Mains' representative career started when he first played for Otago in 1967. He made his All Blacks début in 1971, agains ...


Wales

Head coach: Alex Evans


Pool D


France

Head coach:
Pierre Berbizier Pierre Berbizier (born 17 June 1958) is a French former rugby union footballer and a current coach. His usual position was at scrum-half. He played 56 times for France. Biography Berbizier was born in Saint-Gaudens. He made his international deb ...


Ivory Coast

Head coach:
Claude Ezoua Claude-Aimé Ezoua (born 2 October 1956) is a French-born Ivorian rugby union coach and a former player. He was called to be Ivory Coast head coach and achieved a surprise qualification for the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The Ivorians played rather poor ...
Manager:
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Scotland

Head coach:
Jim Telfer James Telfer (born 17 March 1940) is a Scottish former rugby union coach and player. As a player, he won 21 international caps in the amateur era, also having a career as a headmaster at Hawick High School and Galashiels Academy and Forrester H ...


Tonga

Head coach:
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