Brazil women's national rugby union team

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For the men's team, see Brazil national rugby union team. For the women's sevens team, see Brazil women's national rugby sevens team. For the women's rugby league team, see Brazil women's national rugby league team.
Brazil
UnionBrazilian Rugby Confederation
First colours
Second colours
World Rugby ranking
Current41 (as of 23 November 2020)
First international
 Brazil 0-10 Netherlands 
(Amsterdam, Netherlands 10 May 2008)
Biggest defeat
 Colombia 28-07 Brazil 
(Amsterdam, Netherlands 25 August 2019)

The Brazil women's national rugby union team are the national side of Brazil, representing them at rugby union. After several successful performances at Sevens rugby, they played their first 15-a-side fixture in May 2008 against Netherlands and lost 10–0 (see here for photographs of the first Brazilian international).

The team wasn't formed again until 2019, when Brazil visited Colombia for its first match against South American opposition. In 2020, Brazil and Colombia played again in Medellín, in a match that was the first one in a Women's Rugby World Cup qualifiers. Colombia defeated Brazil by 23-19.

History[]

The first women's rugby match known in Brazil took place in 1987, during São Paulo Athletic Club's traditional end-of-year sevens tournament. Most of the players were the girlfriends and sisters of the men's team players, who always accompanied them to games and practices. In 1997, during Women's Day, another match took place in Florianópolis, in Desterro Rugby Clube. Maria Mikaella, former captain of Brazilian National Team, played that match made a little statement about how it was "we didn't know the sport. In Brazil we didn't have rugby on TV or even a rugby ball to buy. We haven't heard about rugby until our friends began to play. We started just watching, but the sport seemed to be really cool to just watch. So we convinced the boys to teach us. The first game was messy. I just remember that we lost. However made us fall in love with rugby."

Results summary[]

(Full internationals only)

Rugby: Brazil internationals 2008-
Opponent First game Played Won Drawn Lost Percentage
 Netherlands 10 May 2008 1 0 0 1 00.00%
 Colombia 25 August 2019 1 0 0 1 00.00%
Summary 2 0 0 2 00.00%

Results[]

See Women's international rugby for information about the status of international games and match numbering

Full internationals[]

[679]
2008-05-10 Netherlands  10-0  Brazil Amsterdam []
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2019-08-25 Colombia  28-07  Brazil Medellín []
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2020-03-07 Colombia  23-19  Brazil Medellín [84/1/1]

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