History of the Argentina national rugby union team stadium. In the second game (played on November 3) Argentina was defeated by 17–12. During the 1980s, several teams toured on South America also reaching Argentina. This allowed the Pumas to face some of the most important sides of the world, such as England, France, New Zealand and Australia national rugby union team. From the late seventies to the early nineties, Argentina never lost the two matches of a series held in Buenos Aires. After the British Lions visits in 1909 and 1927, the England national team arrived in Argentina for the first time in 1981. The English side played
Ireland national rugby union team Ireland national rugby union team The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union. They are ranked second in the world by World Rugby as of 19 November 2018. The team competes annually in the current Six Nations Championship, which they have won fourteen times outright and shared nine times in its various formats. The team also competes every four years in the Rugby World Cup, where they reached the quarter-final stage in all but two competitions (1999 and 2007). Ireland is also one of the four unions that make up the British and Irish