Australia national women's rugby union team
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| Union | Australian Rugby Union |
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| Nickname(s) | Wallaroos |
| Coach(es) | Dwayne Nestor |
| Captain(s) | Sharni Williams |
| Most caps | (-) |
| Top scorer | (-) |
| First international | |
 Australia 0-37 New Zealand  (Sydney, Australia 2 September 1994) |
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| Largest win | |
Australia 87-0 Samoa  (Samoa, 08 August 2009) |
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| Largest defeat | |
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New Zealand 64-0 Australia (Auckland, New Zealand 22 July 1995) |
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| 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.
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.
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.
Summary of matches (full internationals only) updated to the end of the 2017 World Cup:
See Women's international rugby for information about the status of international games and match numbering.
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