The Wales national rugby union team represents Wales in men’s international rugby union. Its governing body, the Welsh Rugby Union, was established in 1881, the same year that Wales played their first international against England. The team plays its home matches at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Since 2005, Wales has been the most successful team in the Six Nations, winning five Six Nations titles, more than any other team.
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The Wales national rugby union team represents Wales in men’s international rugby union. Its governing body, the Welsh Rugby Union, was established in 1881, the same year that Wales played their first international against England. The team plays its home matches at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Since 2005, Wales has been the most successful team in the Six Nations, winning five Six Nations titles, more than any other team. Between March 1907 and January 1910, they won 11 consecutive matches, a record that stood for over a century. Wales has also participated in every Rugby World Cup since the competition wasestablished in 1987. They finished third in the inaugural tournament and have since made two semi-finals, in 2011 and 2019. Wales reached number 1 in the World Rugby Rankings for the first time in August 2019. Eight former Welsh players have been inducted into the World rugby Hall of Fame; 10 were inducted to the International Rugby Hall of fame prior to its 2014 merger into the world Rugby Hall. Wales have won the Five Nations Championship 27 times, most recently in 2019, which was also a Grand Slam. Wales won the Home Nations Championship in 1893, winning the Triple Crown in the process. They won two more Triple Crowns in 1902 and 1905, and were runners-up in 1901, 1903 and 1904. When Wales faced New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park in late 1905, they had not lost at home since 1899. Wales’s only loss on their 35-match tour of New Zealand was a 3–0 defeat on December 12, 1908.
Two years later, Wales took the first Five Nations Grand Slam, winning all their matches in the tournament. It would be nearly 40 years before Wales’s defeat of England’s again in 1910 – with Wales’s first Grand Slam of that tournament – with a 9–6 defeat of the touring Australians. Wales were the host nation for the 1999 Rugby World World Cup, although matches were also played in England, Scotland, Ireland and France. Wales also finished fourth at both the 2011 RugbyWorld Cup and 2019 Rugby World cup. The Welsh national anthem – Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau – was first sung before a sporting fixture in Wales in 1850, when Reverend Rowland Williams became Vice-Principal at St David’s College, Lampeter, and introduced the sport there. Wales next won the Championship in 1900, heralding the first ‘golden age’ of Welsh rugby, which were to last until 1911. In 1906, Wales again won the home Nations Championship, and later later that year played South Africa for first time, winning 11–0 in the first match of that year’s tournament. In 1909, Wales won the Home Championship and then in 1910, Wales defeated South Africa 9-6 in the final match of the tournament, with Wales’ first Grand slam of that competition. Wales lost the final game of the 1907 Six Nations Championship against South Africa 11-0. Wales” first international match against England was on 19 February 1881; organised by Newport’s Richard Mullock and captained by James Bevan, they lost by seven goals, one drop goal and six tries to nil.
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