East Germany national rugby union team

East Germany played its first rugby international in 1951 in Bucharest against the Romanians, losing 26-64. The East Germans played against mostly Eastern Bloc countries, but they did play Netherlands (once), Sweden (three times), Denmark (twice) and Luxembourg (once). Their one-game against Luxembourg also happened to be their last, taking place shortly before the reunification of Germany in 1990. Despite requests from its West German counterpart, the East German rugby body, DTSB, refused to permit an international against West Germany to take place and the two teams never played each other over their 40-year history.

Internationals

Country	First Played	Games	Won	Drew	Lost
Romania	1951	14	0	1	13
Czechoslovakia	1956	16	3	2	11
Netherlands	1958	1	1	0	0
Poland	1958	13	2	1	10
Sweden	1964	3	3	0	0
Denmark	1964	2	2	0	0
Bulgaria	1976	14	9	0	5
Soviet Union	1978	2	0	0	2
Yugoslavia	1978	1	0	0	1
Hungary	1990	1	1	0	0
Luxembourg	1990	1	0	0	1
Overall		68	21	4	43

The team did not compete in the FIRA championship but did take part in a number of four-nation tournaments: 1961 in Brno, 1964 in Malmö, 1978, 1979 and 1983 in Bulgaria (Varna and Nesebar).