Tonga women's national rugby union team

The Tonga women's national rugby union team are a national sporting side of Tonga, representing them at rugby union.

For the men's team, see Tonga national rugby union team. For the women's sevens team, see Tonga women's national rugby sevens team. For the women's rugby league team, see Tonga women's national rugby league team.
Tonga
Nickname(s)'Ikale Tahi
UnionTonga Rugby Football Union
First colours
Second colours
World Rugby ranking
Current26 (as of 23 November 2020)
First international
Tonga  5–52  Fiji
(2006 P3N)
Biggest win
Tonga  62–26  Papua New Guinea
(2018 Oceania Championship)
Biggest defeat
Samoa  68–7  Tonga
(2018 Oceania Championship)

History

Tonga played their first international test match against Fiji in 2006 at the Women's Pacific Tri-Nations. Tonga joined the Oceania Rugby Women's Championship in 2018.[1] They recorded their first and biggest win at the 2018 Oceania Championship over Papua New Guinea with a score of 62–26.[2]

There was a measles outbreak in Tonga in 2019, so the team had to withdraw from the Oceania Championship when a player was suspected of having measles.[3] The tournament also acted as a qualifier for the 2021 Rugby World Cup and was revised to allow Tonga to compete for the Oceania berth. Fiji won the Oceania regions only spot and qualified for the World Cup.[3]

In 2020 Tonga played Papua New Guinea and Samoa in a Repechage qualifier playoff for a spot in the Final Qualification Tournament for the 2021 World Cup. Samoa were the team to progress.[3]

Results

See Women's international rugby for information about the status of international games and match numbering

(Full internationals only)

Overall record
Rugby: Tonga internationals 2006-
Opponent First game Played Won Drawn Lost Percentage
 Fiji 2006 2 0 0 2 0.00%
 Papua New Guinea 2018 2 2 0 0 100.00%
 Samoa 2006 3 0 0 3 0.00%
Summary 2006 7 2 0 5 20.00%

Full internationals
[535]
2006-04-18 (P3N) Tonga  5–52  Fiji Teufaiva Park, Nuku’alofa [1/2/1]
[536]
2006-04-22 (P3N) Tonga  5–60  Samoa Teufaiva Park, Nuku’alofa [2/8/1]
[1277]
2018-11-16 (OC) Fiji  53–8  Tonga Churchill Park, Lautoka [6/3/2]
[1284]
2018-11-20 (OC) Samoa  68–7  Tonga Churchill Park, Lautoka [25/4/2]
[1286]
2018-11-24 (OC) Tonga  62–26  Papua New Guinea Churchill Park, Lautoka [5/4/1]
1 March 2020
Papua New Guinea  24–36  Tonga
18 April 2020
to repechage Samoa  40–0  Tonga

References
  1. "Sport: Fijiana 15s women expecting tough title defence". RNZ. 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  2. "Fiji win Oceania Rugby Women's Championship title". www.rugbyworldcup.com. 2018-11-24. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  3. "Oceania-qualification for women's Rugby World Cup revised". Loop. 24 November 2019. Archived from the original on 27 November 2019.
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