Greece national rugby union team

The Greece National Rugby Union team represents one of the world's newest rugby union playing nations. The national team is governed by the HRF (Hellenic Rugby Federation), or EOP (Elliniki Omospondia Rugby), presided by Evangelos Stamos. Greece has been participating in international competitions since October 2005 playing its first international game against Austria in Vienna. Since then, they have played several international games in FIRA competition 3D, and in Greece. Greece played Slovakia in the Final on 12 May 2007 in Thessaloniki, where they won 20–17 and in doing so gained promotion to division 3C. The current coach of the Greek national team is Mike Bishop taking over from Niall Doherty who is currently involved with Turkey. The national side is ranked 102nd in the world (as of 12 October 2019)

Greece
UnionGreek Rugby Federation
Head coachNikos Petropoulos
First colours
Second colours
World Rugby ranking
Current103 (as of November 23rd, 2020)
First international
 Austria 52–3 Greece 
(22 October 2005)
Biggest win
 Greece 47–7 Bulgaria 
(5 November 2011)
Biggest defeat
 Austria 52–3 Greece 
(22 October 2005)
World Cup
Appearances0

History

It is unknown when rugby was first played in Greece. During the mid 19th century, English and French sailors are recorded as playing some of the earliest games in northern Greece.

Record

Overall
Against Played Won Lost Drawn % Won
 Austria10100.00
 Azerbaijan2200100.00
 Bosnia and Herzegovina2200100.00
 Bulgaria422050.00
 Cyprus30300.00
 Finland835037.50
 Israel20200.00
 Luxembourg633050.00
 Monaco1100100.00
 Norway211050.00
 Slovakia1100100.00
Total321517046.87

Current squad

Squad to 2014 European Nations Cup - Division 2D.[1]

References
  1. http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/matches/match=13816/index.html Archived 21 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine

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