Luxembourg national rugby union team

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Luxembourg

Union	Luxembourg Rugby Federation
Head coach	Alexandre Benedetti
Captain	Christian Olsen
Most caps	Nigel Shaplin (51)
Top scorer	Gilles Caviglia (288)
Top try scorer	Steve Knowles Adrien Timmermans (11)
Home stadium	Stade de Luxembourg, Luxembourg City
First colours Second colours Third colours
World Rugby ranking
Current	59 (as of 6th May 2024)
Highest	56 (2019)
Lowest	94 (2008)
First international
Belgium 28 – 6 Luxembourg 3 May 1975
Biggest win
Luxembourg 84 – 7 Slovenia 24 April 2024
Biggest defeat
Luxembourg 3 – 116 Sweden 5 May 2001
Website	www.rugby.lu

The Luxembourg national rugby union team is a minor team, and is ranked as a third tier nation. The team participates in the annual Rugby Europe Championship Conference 2 North 2017–18 Rugby Europe Conference. Since 1996 Luxembourg also competes in the sevens circuits in Europe Luxembourg national rugby sevens team.

Luxembourg has been a member of FIRA since 1976, two years after the founding of Luxembourg Rugby Federation (French: Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Rugby (FLR)). The Grand Duchy has participated several times in the FIRA championships and, despite the small size, has honourably acquitted itself. Luxembourg has also been a member of the International Rugby Board since 1991.

The Luxembourg rugby team is the only national sports team to have been three times champions of their group in a European competition. In 1995, more than 20 points scored against Slovenia at Cessange and more than 20 points scored in Split against Croatia and finally an excellent draw against Andorra in Luxembourg enabled them to be champions of their group. In 1997 they won the Bronze Cup with wins against Bosnia, Bulgaria and Monaco. Luxembourg has in their past encounter recorded a 10–10 draw against Georgia, but the best performance to date was a "Grand Slam" in 2004 in FIRA-AER European Cup division 3B. In the 2017–2018 campaign, Luxembourg won the Grand Slam against Denmark, Norway, Finland and Estonia in the Rugby Europe Conference 2 North, while also integrating several young players in the squad, and gained promotion to the Rugby Europe Conference 1 North for the 2018–2019 campaign.

After two narrow losses to group favourites Ukraine and Sweden, Luxembourg beat Moldova 23–10 at home to, for the first time ever, secure a spot for a second consecutive year on this level. Two weeks later Luxembourg also beat Hungary away 18–15, showing the potential of the team.

The national side is ranked 62nd in the world (as of 23 October 2023).^[1]