The Laos national rugby union team represents Laos in international

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. The team's first international match was against

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in 1974, losing 34 points to 10. After this the Laotian team did not field an international side again until 2006. With the recent reorganisation of the Asian rugby union competition structure they are set to play more often in the future. The Lao Rugby Federation is the governing body. Laos has been an associate member of

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(formerly IRB) since November 2004.

External links

Lao Rugby
official site *
Laos
on IRB.com
Laos
on rugbydata.com Asian national rugby union teams Rugby union in Laos

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 ...

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