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Women's rugby union has a history going back to the late 19th century but it was not until 1982 that the first international fixture (or "Test Match") took place. The match was organised in connection with the Dutch Rugby Union's 50th anniversary. As part of the celebrations on June 13, 1982 the French national women's team was invited to Utrecht to play the Dutch, France winning 4-0〔A try was only worth four points in 1982, the five point try not coming in until 1992.〕 in a game that has since been recognised as the first ever women's international〔Definition of an "international" used in this article. This article, with its accompanying match list and associated data - as well as the statistical summary of each team's relative success - only includes matches that most independent observers appear to treat as "full internationals" (or "test matches"). These may be defined as: *Tournament games between national representative XVs from tournaments for full international teams; *"Friendly" fixtures which it appears were generally promoted ''prior to the game'' as being between full strength national XVs *Other fixtures which most independent authorities (''as opposed to individual unions'') appear to treat as full internationals (such as games involving "World XVs"). As a result the list may conflict with some "official" records published by some national unions who: *may not include all of these games in their official records (''most often because the Union concerned fielded a below strength team in a tournament for full international XVs''), or *my include games which fail to meet the above definitions (''most often because they fielded a full strength team in a friendly against an unofficial or "A" team''). 〕 rugby union match. Official recognition of women's internationals was not immediate. Almost all women's rugby was originally organised outside of the control of either national unions or World Rugby (WR). Partly as a result no internationally agreed list of rugby internationals exists. However, even in the men's game, WR does not decide which matches are "full internationals" (or "test matches"), leaving such decisions up to participating unions. As a result, one country may classify a match as a full international (and award full test caps) while the opposition may not - countries may even award caps for games against an opposition that is not a national team (World XVs, for example).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Statistics: Scoring & Player Numbers Explanation )〕 International rugby initially grew slowly.〔Internationals in each calendar year: *1982 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Women's international rugby union」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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