The Rugby World Cup starts in France on September 8. Here's a crash course on the rules and origins of the 15-a-side code.

Rugby union's top medical official has said that the rules of the game may need changing to halt a growing trend in brain injuries suffered by players. Martin Raftery, the chief medical officer ...

The rules of the game went through a number of changes before they settled on the modern-day Rugby Union rules in 1871. During this era, Rugby quickly became popular in many schools and ...

World Rugby need to look at the rule book and draw from past experiences and experimentations of laws and decide once and for all what rules and laws will stay and what needs to be consigned to ...

Rugby is a continuous game whereby two teams carry, pass, kick and ground the ball in order to score as many points as possible, with the team scoring the greater number of points being the winner ...

A revolutionary change to rugby union's international eligibility rules has been approved by World Rugby. It means from January 2022 a player will now be able to represent a different country ...

Rugby union matches see each team field 15 players on the field with a bench made up of eight replacement players. But there are two different substitutions that allow each team to make multiple ...