Australia women's national rugby union team

Australia
Nickname(s)	Wallaroos
Emblem	Wallaroo
Union	Rugby Australia
Head coach	Jay Tregonning
Captain	Grace Hamilton
	First colours
	First colours
World Rugby ranking
Current	5 (as of 23 November 2020)
Highest	3 (January 2004)
Lowest	7 (January 2009)
First international
	Australia 0–37 New Zealand ; (Sydney, Australia 2 September 1994)
Biggest win
	Australia 87–0 Samoa ; (Samoa, 8 August 2009)
Biggest defeat
	New Zealand 64–0 Australia ; (Auckland, New Zealand 22 July 1995)
World Cup
Appearances	6 (First in 1998)
Best result	3rd place, 2010

The Australia women's national rugby union team, also known as the Wallaroos, has competed at all Women's Rugby World Cups since 1998, with their best result finishing in third place in 2010.

Australia at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.

Australian women have been playing rugby since the late 1930s, in regional areas of New South Wales. In 1992 the first National Women's Tournament as held in Newcastle, NSW. The following year the Australian Women's Rugby Union was established, and it was declared that the national women's team would be called the Wallaroos.

History

The Wallaroos played their first international in 1994 against New Zealand, also known as the Black Ferns. The match was played at North Sydney Oval, and NZ won the game 37 to 0. The team placed fifth at their first World Cup appearance in 1998 in the Netherlands. They placed fifth at the 2002 event in Barcelona, Spain also.

In 2014, The Wallaroos played two Test matches in New Zealand against their Tasman rivals, the Black Ferns, and North American outfit, Canada. Although losing both of these matches, the Wallaroos took this experience into the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. The Australian team was second in the pool stage behind host team France and was narrowly defeated by the United States in the first playoff, but beat Wales in their last match to finish the tournament in seventh place.

Results

Women's World Rugby Rankings
Top 20 rankings as of 18 April 2022[1]
Rank	Change*	Team	Points
1		England	096.26
2		New Zealand	088.58
3		France	088.43
4		Canada	088.15
5		Australia	078.68
6		United States	076.63
7	1	Ireland	076.00
8	1	Italy	075.12
9		Wales	073.63
10		Scotland	072.72
11		Spain	072.10
12		Japan	065.49
13		South Africa	063.39
14		Russia	061.10
15		Samoa	059.72
16		Kazakhstan	058.45
17		Netherlands	058.27
18		Hong Kong	057.89
19		Sweden	057.73
20		Germany	057.72
*Change from the previous week

World Cup

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	PF	PA
1991	Did Not Enter
1994	Did Not Enter
1998	Quarter-finals	5th	5	3	0	2	84	70
2002	Quarter-finals	7th	4	2	0	2	63	54
2006	Plate semi-final	7th	5	2	0	3	118	85
2010	Third play-off		5	3	0	2	115	67
2014	Plate semi-final	7th	5	3	0	2	104	49
2017	Fifth play-off	6th	5	2	0	3	94	149
2021	Qualified
Total	6/9	3rd	29	15	0	14	578	474

Overall

Summary of matches (full internationals only) updated to the end of the 2019 season:

Opposition	First	P	W	L	%
Canada	2014	3	0	3	0%
England	1998	5	0	5	0%
France	1998	5	1	4	20%
Ireland	1998	4	3	1	75%
Japan	2017	3	3	0	100%
New Zealand	1994	19	0	19	0%
Samoa	2009	1	1	0	100%
Scotland	1998	2	2	0	100%
South Africa	2006	3	3	0	100%
Spain	1998	1	1	0	100%
United States	1997	5	0	5	0%
Wales	2002	4	4	0	100%
Summary	1994	55	18	37	33%

Full internationals

1990s

[110]
	1994-09-02	Australia	0–37	New Zealand	Sydney	[1/8/1]

[123]
	1995-07-22	New Zealand	64–0	Australia	Auckland	[9/2/2]

[140]
	1996-08-31	Australia	5–28	New Zealand	Sydney	[3/10/3]

[169]
	1997-08-02	Australia	24–28	United States	Brisbane	[4/24/1]

[172]
	1997-08-16	New Zealand	44–0	Australia	Dunedin	[15/5/4]

[197]
	1998-05-02 (WC)	Australia	21–0	Ireland	Amsterdam	[6/22/1]

[204]
	1998-05-05 (WC)	Australia	8–10	France	Amsterdam	[7/46/1]

[206]
	1998-05-09 (WC)	Australia	13–30	England	Amsterdam	[8/45/1]

[216]
	1998-05-12 (WC)	Australia	17–15	Spain	Amsterdam	[9/18/1]

[228]
	1998-05-16 (WC)	Australia	25–15	Scotland	Amsterdam	[10/33/1]

[230]
	1998-08-29	Australia	3–27	New Zealand	Sydney	[11/21/5]

2000s

[330]
	2001-05-26	Australia	19–41	England	TG Millner Field, Sydney	[12/74/2]

[321]
	2001-06-02	Australia	5–15	England	Newcastle, NSW	[13/75/3]

[363]
	2002-05-13 (WC)	Australia	30–0	Wales	Barcelona	[14/65/1]

[371]
	2002-05-18 (WC)	Australia	3–36	New Zealand	Barcelona	[15/30/6]

[382]
	2002-05-21 (WC)	Australia	0–18	United States	Barcelona	[16/43/2]

[391]
	2002-05-25 (WC)	Australia	30–0	Scotland	Barcelona	[17/66/2]

[563]
	2006-08-31 (WC)	Australia	68–12	South Africa	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[18/7/1]

[568]
	2006-09-04 (WC)	Australia	10–24	France	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[19/108/2]

[575]
	2006-09-08 (WC)	Australia	6–10	United States	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[20/57/3]

[579]
	2006-09-12 (WC)	Australia	12–29	United States	St. Albert Rugby Park, St. Albert	[21/58/4]

[583]
	2006-09-16 (WC)	Australia	18–14	Ireland	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[22/79/2]

[645]
	2007-10-16	New Zealand	21–10	Australia	Cooks Gardens, Wanganui	[48/23/7]

[646]
	2007-10-20	New Zealand	29–12	Australia	Wellington	[49/24/8]

[717]
	2008-07-22	Australia	3–37	New Zealand	Canberra	[25/50/9]

[718]
	2008-07-26	Australia	16–22	New Zealand	Sydney	[26/51/10]

[760]
	2009-08-08 (WCQ)	Samoa	0–87	Australia	Samoa	[14/27/1]

2010s

[835]
	2010-08-20 (WC)	Australia	26–12	Wales	Surrey Sports Park, Guildford	[28/132/2]

[844]
	2010-08-24 (WC)	Australia	5–32	New Zealand	Surrey Sports Park, Guildford	[29/55/11]

[850]
	2010-08-28 (WC)	Australia	62–0	South Africa	Surrey Sports Park, Guildford	[30/22/2]

[858]
	2010-09-01 (WC)	England	15–0	Australia	Twickenham Stoop	[167/31/4]

[863]
	2010-09-05 (WC)	France	8–22	Australia	Twickenham Stoop	[150/32/3]

[1046]
	2014-06-01	New Zealand	38–3	Australia	Rotorua International Stadium	[68/33/12]

[1047]
	2014-06-06	Australia	0–22	Canada	Tauranga, New Zealand	[34/101/1]

[1059]
	2014-08-01 (WC)	Australia	26–3	South Africa	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[35/36/3]

[1064]
	2014-08-05 (WC)	Australia	25–3	Wales	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 2	[36/159/3]

[1074]
	2014-08-09 (WC)	Australia	3–17	France	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[37/189/4]

[1079]
	2014-08-13 (WC)	Australia	20–23	United States	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[38/99/5]

[1084]
	2014-08-17 (WC)	Australia	30–3	Wales	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[39/162/4]

[1159]
	2016-10-22	New Zealand	67–3	Australia	Eden Park, Auckland	[80/40/13]

[1160]
	2016-10-26	New Zealand	29–3	Australia	QBE Stadium, North Harbour	[81/41/14]

[1195]
	2017-06-09	Australia	10–53	England	Porirua Park, Wellington	[42/245/5]

[1197]
	2017-06-13	New Zealand	44–17	Australia	Rugby Park, Christchurch	[86/43/15]

[1199]
	2017-06-17	Australia	5–45	Canada	Smallbone Park, Rotorua	[44/122/2]

[1208]
	2017-08-09 (WC)	Ireland	19–17	Australia	UCD Bowl, Dublin	[151/45/3]

[1215]
	2017-08-13 (WC)	France	48 – 0	Australia	UCD Bowl, Dublin	[215/46/5]

[1220]
	2017-08-17 (WC)	Australia	21–15	Japan	Billings Park UCD, Dublin	[47/47/1]

[1224]
	2017-08-22 (WC)	Ireland	24–36	Australia	Ravenhill Stadium, Belfast	[154/48/4]

[1227]
	2017-08-26 (WC)	Canada	43–12	Australia	Queen's University, Belfast	[122/49/3]

[1265]
	2018-08-18	Australia	11–31	New Zealand	ANZ Stadium, Sydney	[50/93/16]

[1266]
	2018-08-25	New Zealand	45–17	Australia	Eden Park, Auckland	[94/51/17]

[1329]
	2019-07-13	Australia	34–5	Japan	Sportsground 2, Newcastle	[52/50/2]

[1334]
	2019-07-19	Australia	46–3	Japan	North Sydney Oval, Sydney	[53/51/3]

[1339]
	2019-08-10	Australia	10–47	New Zealand	Optus Stadium, Perth	[54/102/18]

[1342]
	2019-08-17	New Zealand	37–8	Australia	Eden Park, Auckland	[103/55/19]

2020s

All planned test matches for the Wallaroos in 2020 were cancelled due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as was the September 2021 tour to New Zealand.[2]

Other matches

2016-10-18

Auckland	19–21	Australia

Bell Park, Pakuranga

Squads

Current squad

TBA

Previous squads

2016 Wallaroos squad composition for the Women's Bledisloe Cup [3][4]

Squad:

1. Louise Burrows
2. Alanna Patison
3. Hanna Ngaha
4. Alisha Hewett
5. Chloe Butler
6. Grace Hamilton
7. Ariana Kaiwai
8. Mollie Gray
9. Iliseva Batibasaga
10. Ash Hewson
11. Madeline Putz
12. Sarah Riordan
13. Katrina Barker
14. Cobie-Jane Morgan
15. Chloe Leaupepe

Finishers:

16. Ivy Kaleta
17. Emily Robinson
18. Danielle Meskell
19. Michelle Bailey
20. Liz Patu
21. Kirby Sefo
22. Nareta Marsters
23. Cheyenne Campbell

Records

Coaches

Jay Tregonning (2021–pres.)[7]

Dwayne Nestor (2018–2021) [8]
Paul Verrell (2013–2017) [9]
no appointment (Oct 2010 to Aug 2013)
John Manenti (2009–2010)
Steve Hamson (2005–2008)
no appointment (Jul 2002 to Jun 2005)
Don Parry (c. 2000–2002) [10]
no appointment (Sep 1998 to c. Dec 2000)
Bob Hitchcock (1995 to 1998) [11][12]
Col Spence (1994)[13]

Captains

Grace Hamilton (2019) [14]
Liz Patu (2018) [15]
Sharni Williams (2017)
Shannon Parry (2017)
Ash Hewson (2016)
Dalena Dennison (2014)
Tui Ormsby (2014)
Chris Ross (2010)
Cheryl Soon (2007–2010)
Selena Worsley (2002, 2006)
Louise Ferris (2001)
Nicole Wickert (1998–2000)
Helen Taylor (1994)

References

"Women's World Rankings". World Rugby. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
Mitchell, Brittany (17 August 2021). "Rugby Australia risk losing some of their best talent to NRLW". ESPN. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021.
"Wednesday's Rugby News". 25 October 2016.
http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2016/10/25/00/00/wallaroos-black-ferns-albany-team-announcement
"Wednesday's Rugby News". 25 October 2016.
http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2016/10/25/00/00/wallaroos-black-ferns-albany-team-announcement
Williamson, Nathan (14 September 2021). "Jay Tregonning appointed Wallaroos coach". rugby.com.au. Archived from the original on 14 September 2021.
Decent, Tom (13 February 2018). "New Wallaroos coach Dwayne Nestor says hosting 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup would be a 'fairytale'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
"Team Profile: Australia". Irish Rugby. 26 June 2017. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
"Women's Rugby World Cup: Pool A". International Rugby Board. 2002. Archived from the original on 5 August 2002. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
"Aust slips in Otago". The Canberra Times. 16 July 1995.
"Teams: Australia". Women's Rugby World Cup. 1998. Archived from the original on 24 August 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
Nix, Alwyn (26 August 1994). "Wallaroos will have a few surprises". The Canberra Times.
Robinson, Georgina (21 June 2019). "Amazing Grace: New Wallaroos captain's rapid rise to the top". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 23 June 2019.
Tiernan, Eamonn (13 August 2018). "Kiwi-born Liz Patu named new Wallaroos skipper". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.

External links

Official website
Wallaroos chase World Cup glory
List of results Archived 23 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
History of Australian Women's Rugby

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[women_runion_rankings-1] "Women's World Rankings". World Rugby. Retrieved 4 April 2022.

[2] Mitchell, Brittany (17 August 2021). "Rugby Australia risk losing some of their best talent to NRLW". ESPN. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021.

[3] "Wednesday's Rugby News". 25 October 2016.

[4] ttp://www.rugby.com.au/news/2016/10/25/00/00/wallaroos-black-ferns-albany-team-announcement

[5] "Wednesday's Rugby News". 25 October 2016.

[6] ttp://www.rugby.com.au/news/2016/10/25/00/00/wallaroos-black-ferns-albany-team-announcement

[7] Williamson, Nathan (14 September 2021). "Jay Tregonning appointed Wallaroos coach". rugby.com.au. Archived from the original on 14 September 2021.

[smh-feb-2018-8] Decent, Tom (13 February 2018). "New Wallaroos coach Dwayne Nestor says hosting 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup would be a 'fairytale'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

[irfb-2017-9] "Team Profile: Australia". Irish Rugby. 26 June 2017. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.

[irb-2002-10] "Women's Rugby World Cup: Pool A". International Rugby Board. 2002. Archived from the original on 5 August 2002. Retrieved 27 August 2017.

[11] "Aust slips in Otago". The Canberra Times. 16 July 1995.

[wrwc-1998-12] "Teams: Australia". Women's Rugby World Cup. 1998. Archived from the original on 24 August 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2017.

[13] Nix, Alwyn (26 August 1994). "Wallaroos will have a few surprises". The Canberra Times.

[smh-19-14] Robinson, Georgina (21 June 2019). "Amazing Grace: New Wallaroos captain's rapid rise to the top". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 23 June 2019.

[15] Tiernan, Eamonn (13 August 2018). "Kiwi-born Liz Patu named new Wallaroos skipper". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.