Australia women's national rugby union team

For the men's team, see Australia national rugby union team.

Australia

Union	Australian Rugby Union
Nickname(s)	Wallaroos
Coach(es)	Dwayne Nestor
Captain(s)	Sharni Williams
Most caps	(-)
Top scorer	(-)
Team kit Change kit
First international
Australia 0-37 New Zealand (Sydney, Australia 2 September 1994)
Largest win
Australia 87-0 Samoa (Samoa, 08 August 2009)
Largest defeat
New Zealand 64-0 Australia (Auckland, New Zealand 22 July 1995)
World Cup
Appearances	6 (First in 1998)
Best result	3rd place, 2010

Australia at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.

The Australia women's national rugby union team, also known as the Wallaroos, has competed at all Women's Rugby World Cups since 1998, with their best result finishing in third place in 2010.

Australian women have been playing rugby since the late 1930s, in regional areas of New South Wales. In 1992 the first National Women's Tournament as held in Newcastle, NSW. The following year the Australian Women's Rugby Union was established, and it was declared that the national women's team would be called the Wallaroos.

History

The Wallaroos played their first international in 1994 against New Zealand, also known as the Black Ferns. The match was played at North Sydney Oval, and NZ won the game 37 to 0. The team placed fifth at their first World Cup appearance in 1998 in the Netherlands. They placed fifth at the 2002 event in Barcelona, Spain also.

In 2014, The Wallaroos played two Test matches in New Zealand against their Tasman rivals, the Black Ferns, and North American outfit, Canada. Although losing both of these matches, the Wallaroos took this experience into the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. The Australian team was second in the pool stage behind host team France and was narrowly defeated by the United States in the first playoff, but beat Wales in their last match to finish the tournament in seventh place.

Results

World Cup

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	PF	PA
1991	Did Not Enter
1994
1998	Quarter-finals	5th	5	3	0	2	84	70
2002	Quarter-finals	7th	4	2	0	2	63	54
2006	Plate semi-final	7th	5	2	0	3	118	85
2010	Third play-off	rd	5	3	0	2	115	67
2014	Plate semi-final	7th	5	3	0	2	104	49
2017	Fifth play-off	6th	5	2	0	3	94	149
2021	Qualified
Total	6/9	3rd	29	15	0	14	578	474

Overall

Summary of matches (full internationals only) updated to the end of the 2017 World Cup:

Opposition	First game	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	% Won
Canada	2014	3	0	0	3	0%
England	1998	5	0	0	5	0%
France	1998	5	1	0	4	20%
Ireland	1998	4	3	0	1	75%
Japan	2017	1	1	0	0	100%
New Zealand	1994	15	0	0	15	0%
Samoa	2009	1	1	0	0	100%
Scotland	1998	2	2	0	0	100%
South Africa	2006	3	3	0	0	100%
Spain	1998	1	1	0	0	100%
United States	1997	5	0	0	5	0%
Wales	2002	4	4	0	0	100%
Summary	1994	49	16	0	33	35%

Full internationals

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

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	1994-09-02	Australia	0–37	New Zealand	Sydney	[1/8/1]

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	1995-07-22	New Zealand	64–0	Australia	Auckland	[9/2/2]

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	1996-08-31	Australia	5–28	New Zealand	Sydney	[3/10/3]

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	1997-08-02	Australia	24–28	United States	Brisbane	[4/24/1]

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	1997-08-16	New Zealand	44–0	Australia	Dunedin	[15/5/4]

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	1998-05-02 (WC)	Australia	21–0	Ireland	Amsterdam	[6/22/1]

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	1998-05-05 (WC)	Australia	8–10	France	Amsterdam	[7/46/1]

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	1998-05-09 (WC)	Australia	13–30	England	Amsterdam	[8/45/1]

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	1998-05-12 (WC)	Australia	17–15	Spain	Amsterdam	[9/18/1]

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	1998-05-16 (WC)	Australia	25–15	Scotland	Amsterdam	[10/33/1]

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	1998-08-29	Australia	3–27	New Zealand	Sydney	[11/21/5]

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	2001-05-26	Australia	19–41	England	T G Millner Field, Sydney	[12/74/2]

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	2001-06-02	Australia	5–15	England	Newcastle, NSW	[13/75/3]

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	2002-05-13 (WC)	Australia	30–0	Wales	Barcelona	[14/65/1]

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	2002-05-18 (WC)	Australia	3–36	New Zealand	Barcelona	[15/30/6]

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	2002-05-21 (WC)	Australia	0–18	United States	Barcelona	[16/43/2]

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	2002-05-25 (WC)	Australia	30–0	Scotland	Barcelona	[17/66/2]

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	2006-08-31 (WC)	Australia	68–12	South Africa	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[18/7/1]

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	2006-09-04 (WC)	Australia	10–24	France	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[19/108/2]

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	2006-09-08 (WC)	Australia	6–10	United States	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[20/57/3]

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	2006-09-12 (WC)	Australia	12–29	United States	St. Albert Rugby Park, St. Albert	[21/58/4]

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	2006-09-16 (WC)	Australia	18–14	Ireland	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[22/79/2]

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	2007-10-16	New Zealand	21–10	Australia	Cooks Gardens, Wanganui	[48/23/7]

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	2007-10-20	New Zealand	29–12	Australia	Wellington	[49/24/8]

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	2008-07-22	Australia	3–37	New Zealand	Canberra	[25/50/9]

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	2008-07-26	Australia	16–22	New Zealand	Sydney	[26/51/10]

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	2009-08-08 (WCQ)	Samoa	0–87	Australia	Samoa	[14/27/1]

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	2010-08-20 (WC)	Australia	26–12	Wales	Surrey Sports Park, Guildford	[28/132/2]

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	2010-08-24 (WC)	Australia	5–32	New Zealand	Surrey Sports Park, Guildford	[29/55/11]

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	2010-08-28 (WC)	Australia	62–0	South Africa	Surrey Sports Park, Guildford	[30/22/2]

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	2010-09-01 (WC)	England	15–0	Australia	Twickenham Stoop	[167/31/4]

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	2010-09-05 (WC)	France	8–22	Australia	Twickenham Stoop	[150/32/3]

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	2014-06-01	New Zealand	38–3	Australia	Rotorua International Stadium	[68/33/12]

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	2014-06-06	Australia	0–22	Canada	Tauranga, New Zealand	[34/101/1]

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	2014-08-01 (WC)	Australia	26–3	South Africa	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[35/36/3]

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	2014-08-05 (WC)	Australia	25–3	Wales	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 2	[36/159/3]

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	2014-08-09 (WC)	Australia	3–17	France	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[37/189/4]

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	2014-08-13 (WC)	Australia	20–23	United States	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[38/99/5]

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	2014-08-17 (WC)	Australia	30–3	Wales	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[39/162/4]

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	2016-10-22	New Zealand	67–3	Australia	Eden Park, Auckland	[80/40/13]

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	2016-10-26	New Zealand	29–3	Australia	QBE Stadium, North Harbour	[81/41/14]

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	2017-06-09	Australia	10–53	England	Porirua Park, Wellington	[42/245/5]

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	2017-06-13	New Zealand	44–17	Australia	Rugby Park, Christchurch	[86/43/15]

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	2017-06-17	Australia	5–45	Canada	Smallbone Park, Rotorua	[44/122/2]

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	2017-08-09 (WC)	Ireland	19–17	Australia	UCD Bowl, Dublin	[149/45/3]

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	2017-08-13 (WC)	France	48 – 0	Australia	UCD Bowl, Dublin	[215/46/5]

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	2017-08-17 (WC)	Australia	21–15	Japan	Billings Park UCD, Dublin	[47/47/1]

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	2017-08-22 (WC)	Ireland	24–36	Australia	Ravenhill Stadium, Belfast	[149/48/4]

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	2017-08-26 (WC)	Canada	43–12	Australia	Queen's University, Belfast	[122/49/3]

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	2018-08-18	Australia	11–31	New Zealand	ANZ Stadium, Sydney	[50/93/16]

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	2018-08-25	New Zealand	45–17	Australia	Eden Park, Auckland	[94/51/17]

Other matches

2016-10-18

Auckland	19–21	Australia

Bell Park, Pakuranga

Squads

Current squad

TBA

Previous squads

Squad to 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup:

• Millie Boyle
• Chloe Butler
• Cheyenne Campbell
• Rebecca Clough
• Mollie Gray
• Grace Hamilton
• Alisha Hewett
• Evelyn Horomia
• Kiri Lingman
• Hana Ngaha
• Shannon Parry
• Liz Patu
• Emily Robinson
• Hilisha Samoa
• Alexandra Sulusi
• Violeta Tupuola
• Katrina Barker
• Fenella Hake
• Ashleigh Hewson
• Nareta Marsters
• Mahalia Murphy
• Trilleen Pomare
• Sarah Riordan
• Kayla Sauvao
• Huia Swanell
• Ashleigh Timoko
• Samantha Terherne
• Sharni Williams

2016 Wallaroos squad composition for the Women's Bledisloe Cup

Squad:

• 1. Louise Burrows
• 2. Alanna Patison
• 3. Hanna Ngaha
• 4. Alisha Hewett
• 5. Chloe Butler
• 6. Grace Hamilton
• 7. Ariana Kaiwai
• 8. Mollie Gray
• 9. Iliseva Batibasaga
• 10. Ash Hewson
• 11. Madeline Putz
• 12. Sarah Riordan
• 13. Katrina Barker
• 14. Cobie-Jane Morgan
• 15. Chloe Leaupepe

Finishers:

• 16. Ivy Kaleta
• 17. Emily Robinson
• 18. Danielle Meskell
• 19. Michelle Bailey
• 20. Liz Patu
• 21. Kirby Sefo
• 22. Nareta Marsters
• 23. Cheyenne Campbell

Squad to 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup

Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.

Player Position Date of Birth (Age) Caps Club/province Louise Burrows Hooker 11 March 1978 Royals RU Margaret Watson Hooker 18 December 1986 University of Newcastle Danielle Meskell Prop 13 November 1973 Warringah Rats Shannon Parry Prop 27 October 1989 Redlands RUC Oneata Schwalger Prop 4 July 1985 Melbourne Unicorns Caroline Vakalahi Prop 4 January 1983 Australian Services RU Sharni Williams Prop 2 March 1988 Royals RU Rebecca Clough Lock 14 November 1988 Cottesloe RUC Alisha Hewett Lock 26 December 1985 Australian Services RU Brooke Saunders Lock 23 April 1985 Australian Services RU Chloe Butler Flanker 11 April 1987 Parramatta Two Blues Dalena Dennison Flanker 26 December 1985 Sunnybank Dragons Mollie Gray Flanker 29 September 1989 Australian Services RU Michelle Milward Flanker 10 January 1986 Queanbeyan Whites Liz Patu Flanker 15 July 1989 Western Bulldogs Rebecca Smyth Flanker 8 February 1985 Dubbo Rhinos Nita Maynard Scrum-half 7 July 1992 Parramatta Two Blues Tui Ormsby Scrum-half 20 January 1978 Warringah Rats Cheyenne Campbell Centre 10 September 1986 Redlands RUC Ashley Marsters Centre 2 November 1993 Melbourne Unicorns Cobie-Jane Morgan Centre 29 June 1989 Warringah Rats Natasha Haines Wing 23 December 1981 Cottesloe RUC Madeline Putz Wing 18 September 1989 Kalamunda RUC Tricia Brown Fullback 14 March 1979 University of Queensland Ashleigh Hewson Fullback 18 December 1979 Sydney University

Records

Coaches

• Dwayne Nestor (2018–present)
• Paul Verrell (2013–2017)
• no appointment (Oct 2010 to Aug 2013)
• John Manenti (2009–2010)
• Steve Hamson (2005–2008)
• no appointment (Jul 2002 to Jun 2005)
• Don Parry (c. 2000–2002)
• no appointment (Sep 1998 to c. Dec 2000)
• Bob Hitchcock (c. 1998)

Captains

• Sharni Williams (2017)
• Shannon Parry (2017)
• Ash Hewson (2016)
• Dalena Dennison (2014)
• Tui Ormsby (2014)
• Chris Ross (2010)
• Cheryl Soon (2007–2010)
• Selena Worsley (2002, 2006)
• Louise Ferris (2001)
• Nicole Wickert (1998–2000)
• Helen Taylor (1994)

See also

• National Women's Rugby Championship
• Australia women's national rugby sevens team

External links

• Official website
• Wallaroos chase World Cup glory
• List of results
• History of Australian Women's Rugby