The Australian national under-19 rugby union team formerly represented
Australia on a national level in age graded
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 it ...
. The team competed in all four editions of the
Under 19 Rugby World Championship
The IRB under-19 Rugby World Cup was the premier tournament for male rugby union players under the age of 19 organised by the sports governing body the International Rugby Board (IRB) annually from 2004 until 2007. Both it and the Under 21 Rugby Wo ...
, winning the title in 2006,
[ and finishing third in 2005 and 2007.][
Starting in ]2008
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, the International Rugby Board
World Rugby is the world governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised and most profitable competition. It also organises a number of other international ru ...
scrapped its under-21 and under-19 world championships in favour of a single under-20 competition, the IRB Junior World Championship
The World Rugby Under 20 Championship (known as the IRB Junior World Championship until 2014) is an international rugby union competition. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, World Rugby, and is contested by 12 men's junior nat ...
. Australia accordingly replaced its under-21 and under-19 sides with a new under-20 side.
Record
Results 2004 to 2007
2007 Under 19 World Championship – (3rd place)
2006 Under 19 World Championship – (1st place)
2005 Under 19 World Championship – (3rd place)
2004 Under 19 World Championship – (6th place)
See also
* Australia national under-20 rugby union team
The Junior Wallabies is the national under-20 team that represents Australia playing rugby union. The team has been competing at the annual World Rugby U20 Championship since it began in 2008, replacing the previously held under-19 and under-2 ...
* Australia national under-21 rugby union team
References
{{National sports teams of Australia
Rugby Australia Under 19