Union | Fédération Luxembourgeoise de rugby |
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Ground(s) | Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City |
Coach(es) | Jon Flynn |
Captain(s) | Saman Rezapour |
Most caps | Nigel Shaplin (51) |
Top scorer | Gilles Caviglia (288) |
Most tries | Steve Knowles (11) |
First international | |
Belgium 28 – 6 Luxembourg 3 May 1975 |
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Largest win | |
Luxembourg 78 – 12 Norway 15 April 2000 |
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Largest defeat | |
Luxembourg 3 – 116 Sweden |
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Official website | |
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Luxembourg 3 – 116 Sweden
5 May 2001
The Luxembourg national rugby union team (FLR) represents Luxembourg at rugby union. Luxembourg is a minor team, and is ranked as a third tier nation. The team participates in the annual Rugby Europe Championship Conference 1 North 2016–17 Rugby Europe Conference.
Luxembourg has been a member of FIRA since 1976, two years after the founding of Luxembourg Rugby Federation (French: Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Rugby (FLR)). The Grand Duchy has participated several times in the FIRA championships and, despite the small size, has honourably acquitted itself. Luxembourg has also been a member of the International Rugby Board since 1991.
The Luxembourg rugby team is the only national sports team to have been three times champions of their group in a European competition. In 1995, more than 20 points scored against Slovenia at Cessange and more than 20 points scored in Split against Croatia and finally an excellent draw against Andorra in Luxembourg enabled them to be champions of their group. In 1997 they won the Bronze Cup with wins against Bosnia, Bulgaria and Monaco. Luxembourg has in their past encounter recorded a 10-10 draw against Georgia, but the best performance to date was a“Grand Slam” in 2004 in FIRA-AER European Cup division 3B.