List of leading rugby union test try scorers

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Daisuke Ohata, the leading international try scorer with 69.

This is a list of the leading try scorers in men's rugby union test matches. It includes players with a minimum of 30 test tries.

Try scorers[]

As of 12 September 2021

  • Bold denotes the player is still playing
Top international try scorers
Rank Player National team Tries Caps Tries /
match 		Years Ref
1 Daisuke Ohata  Japan 69 58 1.19 1996–2006 [1]
2 Bryan Habana  South Africa 67 124 0.54 2004–2016 [2]
3 David Campese  Australia 64 101 0.63 1982–1996 [3]
4 Shane Williams  Wales (58)
 British and Irish Lions (2) 		60 91 0.66 2000–2011 [4][5]
5 Hirotoki Onozawa  Japan 55 81 0.68 2001–2013 [6]
6 Rory Underwood  England (49)
 British and Irish Lions (1) 		50 91 0.55 1984–1996 [7]
7 Doug Howlett  New Zealand 49 62 0.79 2000–2007 [8]
8 Brian O'Driscoll  Ireland (46)
 British and Irish Lions (1) 		47 141 0.33 1999–2014 [9][10]
9 Christian Cullen  New Zealand 46 58 0.79 1996–2002 [11]
Joe Rokocoko  New Zealand 68 0.68 2003–2010 [12]
Julian Savea  New Zealand 54 0.85 2012–2017 [13]
12 George North  Wales (43)
 British and Irish Lions (2) 		45 105 0.43 2010- [14]
13 Jeff Wilson  New Zealand 44 60 0.73 1993–2002 [15]
14 Gareth Thomas  Wales (40)
 British and Irish Lions (1) 		41 103 0.40 1995–2007 [16][17]
15 Chris Latham  Australia 40 78 0.51 1998–2007 [18]
16 Adam Ashley-Cooper  Australia 39 121 0.32 2005-2019 [19]
Ben Smith  New Zealand 84 0.46 2009-2019
18 Serge Blanco  France 38 93 0.41 1980–1991 [20]
D.T.H. van der Merwe  Canada 61 0.62 2006-2019 [21]
Joost van der Westhuizen  South Africa 89 0.43 1993–2003 [22]
21 Israel Folau  Australia 37 73 0.51 2013–2019 [note 1] [24]
Jonah Lomu  New Zealand 63 0.59 1994–2002 [25]
23 Beauden Barrett  New Zealand 36 95 0.38 2012-
Tana Umaga  New Zealand 74 0.49 1997–2005 [26]
25 John Kirwan  New Zealand 35 63 0.56 1984–1994 [27]
26 Vincent Clerc  France 34 67 0.51 2002–2013 [28]
Keith Earls  Ireland 92 0.37 2008-
Ieuan Evans  Wales (33)
 British and Irish Lions (1) 		79 0.43 1987–1998 [29]
Drew Mitchell  Australia 71 0.48 2005–2016 [30]
Mils Muliaina  New Zealand 100 0.34 2003–2011
31 Cătălin Fercu  Romania 33 109 0.30 2005-
Jonny May  England 66 0.50 2013-
Diego Ormaechea  Uruguay 54 0.61 1979–1999 [31]
Sitiveni Sivivatu  New Zealand (29)
Flag of rugby Pacific Islanders.svg Pacific Islanders (4) 		48 0.69 2005–2011 [32][33]
35 Jaque Fourie  South Africa 32 72 0.44 2003–2014 [34]
Takashi Kikutani  Japan 68 0.47 2005–2014 [35]
Philippe Saint-André  France 69 0.46 1990–1997 [36]
38 Ben Cohen  England 31 57 0.54 2000–2006 [37]
Will Greenwood  England 57 0.54 1997–2004 [38][39]
Jeremy Guscott  England (30)
 British and Irish Lions (1) 		73 0.42 1989–1999 [40]
Ma'a Nonu  New Zealand 103 0.30 2003–2015 [41]
César Sempere  Spain 56 0.55 2004–2014 [42]
43 Tommy Bowe  Ireland 30 74 0.41 2004–2017 [43]
Matt Giteau  Australia 103 0.29 2002–2016 [44]
Tim Horan  Australia 80 0.38 1989–2000 [45][46]
Rieko Ioane  New Zealand 41 0.73 2016-
Jason Robinson  England (28)
 British and Irish Lions (2) 		56 0.54 2001–2007 [47]
Joe Roff  Australia 86 0.35 1996–2004 [45]
Philippe Sella  France 111 0.27 1982–1995 [48]
Lote Tuqiri  Australia 67 0.45 2003–2009 [45]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Folau is not eligible for selection by Australia following the termination of his contract by Rugby Australia.[23]

See also[]

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