England national rugby union team
England
Union
Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)
The Red and Whites
Emblem(s)
Red Rose
Ground(s)
Twickenham
Coach
Martin Johnson
Captain
Steve Borthwick
Most caps
Jason Leonard (114)[1]
Top scorer
Jonny Wilkinson (1023)[2][3]
Most tries
Rory Underwood (49)
Team kit
Change kit
First international
(also the world’s first)
Scotland 4–1 England
(27 March 1871)
Largest win
England 134–0 Romania
(17 November 2001)
Worst defeat
Australia 76–0 England
(6 June 1998)
World Cup
Appearances
6 (First in 1987)
Best result
Champions, 2003
The England national rugby union team
represents England in rugby union. They
compete in the annual Six Nations Champion-
ship with France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy,
and Wales. They have won this championship
on 25 occasions, 12 times winning the Grand
Slam. England also compete for the Calcutta
Cup with Scotland as part of the Six Nations.
England are ranked Sixth in the world by the
International Rugby Board as of 23 March
2009. They won the Rugby World Cup in
2003 and finished runner-up in 1991 and
2007.
The history of the team extends back to
1871 when the English rugby team played
their first official Test match, losing to Scot-
land by one try. England dominated the early
Home Nations Championship (now the Six
Nations) which started in 1883. Following
the schism of rugby football in 1895, England
did not win the Championship again until
1910. England first played against New Zeal-
and (the All Blacks) in 1905, South Africa in
1906, and Australia in 1909. England was
one of the teams invited to take part in the
inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 and
went on to appear in the final in the second
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cup in 1991 only to be defeated by Australia.
Following their 2003 Six Nations Grand
Slam, England won that year’s World Cup —
beating Australia 20–17 in extra time. They
also contested the final in 2007 but finished
as runners up, losing 15–6 to South Africa.
England players traditionally wear w