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Rugby union is a contact sport, played with a prolate spheroid ball, by two teams of 15 players. There is also a seven-a-side variant named rugby sevens which is played under modified laws.

The International Rugby Board (IRB), founded in 1886, governs the sport worldwide and also publishes the game’s laws and rankings. There are currently 95 full members and eight associate member countries. According to IRB figures, rugby union is played in over 100 countries spanning six continents by men and women of all ages. The IRB controls the Rugby World Cup, the Women’s Rugby World Cup, Rugby World Cup Sevens, IRB Sevens World Series, Junior World Championship, Junior World Trophy, Nations Cup and the Pacific Nations Cup. It holds votes to decide where all of these events shall be held, except in the case of the Sevens World Series. For that competition, the IRB contracts with several national unions to hold individual events.

The most important tournament in rugby union is the Rugby World Cup, a men’s tournament that takes place every four years among the elite national rugby union teams.

The Six Nations is an annual competition involving the European northern hemisphere teams England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. Each country plays the other five once.