Kenya women's national rugby union team

Kenya

Nickname(s)	Lionesses
Union	Kenya Rugby Union
Head coach	Felix Oloo
Captain	Philadelphia Olando
First colours
World Rugby ranking
Current	24 (as of 23 November 2020)
First international
Kenya 0 - 24 Uganda  (Nairobi, Kenya; September 9, 2006)
Biggest win
Kenya 38 - 5 Uganda  (Nairobi, Kenya; August 15, 2009)
Biggest defeat
South Africa 39 - 0 Kenya  (Brakpan, South Africa; August 17, 2019)

The Kenya women's national rugby union team are a national sporting side of Kenya, representing them at rugby union. The side first played in 2006.

History[]

Kenya were runners-up at the 2019 Rugby Africa Women's Cup which also doubled as a World Cup qualifying tournament.^[1] Despite their loss, the Lionesses still advanced to a cross-regional repechage play-off against Colombia.^[2] However, their last chances of qualifying were dashed with a narrow 15 - 16 loss to Colombia in Nairobi.^[3]

Results summary[]

(Full internationals only)

Rugby: Kenya internationals 2006-

Opponent	First game	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Percentage
	2019	1	1	0	0	100.00%
South Africa	2019	1	0	0	1	0.00%
Uganda	2006	21	12	1	8	57.14%
Summary	2006	23	13	1	9	56.52%

Results[]

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

Full internationals[]

[553]
	2006-09-09	Uganda	24-0	Kenya	Kampala	[3/1/1]

[558]
	2006-08-12	Kenya	0-3	Uganda	Nairobi	[2/4/2]

[699]
	2008-05-24	Uganda	18-7	Kenya	Kampala	[5/3/3]

[711]
	2008-08-16	Kenya	15-13	Uganda	Nairobi	[4/6/4]

[762]
	2009-08-15	Kenya	38-5	Uganda	Nairobi	[5/7/5]

[771]
	2009-08-29	Uganda	12-5	Kenya	Kampala	[8/6/6]

[831]
	2010-07-03	Uganda	8-5	Kenya	Kampala	[11/9/9]

[832]
	2010-07-10	Kenya	16-8	Uganda	Nairobi	[10/12/10]

[891]
	2011-07-09	Kenya	22-10	Uganda	Nairobi	[11/13/11]

[898]
	2011-07-16	Uganda	29-10	Kenya	Kampala	[14/12/12]

[935]
	2012-04-21	Uganda	15-6	Kenya	Kyadondo Rugby Club, Kampala	[15/13/13]

[936]
	2012-04-28	Kenya	15-3	Uganda	RFUEA Ground, Nairobi	[14/16/14]

[993]
	2013-06-15	Kenya	18-17	Uganda	Moi Sports Centre, Nairobi	[15/17/15]

[994]
	2013-06-22	Uganda	13-8	Kenya	Kyadondo Rugby Club, Kampala	[18/16/16]

[1055]
	2014-07-12	Uganda	15-33	Kenya	Kyadondo Rugby Club, Kampala	[20/17/17]

[1056]
	2014-07-19	Kenya	39-10	Uganda	RFUEA Ground, Nairobi	[18/21/18]

[1111]
	2015-06-13	Kenya	5-5	Uganda	RFUEA Ground, Nairobi	[19/22/19]

[1112]
	2015-06-20	Uganda	6-7	Kenya	Legends Ground, Kampala	[23/20/20]

[?]
	2019-06-22	Kenya	44–13	Uganda	Mamboleo Showground, Kisumu	[21/24/21]

[?]
	2019-07-13	Uganda	5–35	Kenya	Kyadondo Rugby Club, Kampala	[25/22/22]

[?]
	2019-08-09 RAC		5–35	Kenya	Bosman Stadium, Brakpan	[1/23/1]

[?]
	2019-08-13 RAC	Kenya	37–5	Uganda	Bosman Stadium, Brakpan	[24/27/23]

[?]
	2019-08-17 RAC	South Africa	39–0	Kenya	Bosman Stadium, Brakpan	[26/25/1]

Other matches[]

[-]
	2005-08-13	Ugandan Select XV	58-0	Kenyan Barbarians	Kampala	[-/-/-]

2019 Elgon Cup Squad[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Rugby International