World Rugby

World Rugby (WR) is the world governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised and most profitable competition. It also organises a number of other international rugby competitions, such as the World Rugby Sevens Series, the World Under 20 Championship, and the Pacific Nations Cup.

World Rugby's headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Its membership now comprises 117 national unions (100 full members and 17 associate members). Member countries must each also be members of one of the six regional unions into which the world is divided: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Caribbean, South America, and Oceania.

World Rugby was founded as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) in 1886 by Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with England joining in 1890.Australia, New Zealand and South Africa became full members in 1949.France became a member in 1978 and a further eighty members joined from 1987 to 1999. The body was renamed the International Rugby Board (IRB) in 1998, and took up its current name in November 2014.

World Rugby (video game)

World Rugby is a sports management video game developed by Brendan O'Brien and David Taylor. It was published by Zeppelin Games in 1993 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. This was Zeppelin's last release for the 8-bit home computer market.

Critical reaction

Your Sinclair awarded World Rugby 72%, praising good presentation the originality of a rugby management game, but criticising the poor graphics in the match highlights.Sinclair User awarded 80%, highlighting the accuracy and range of the player database but advising non-fans of the management genre to stay away.

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