Tawil national rugby union team
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Nickname(s) | هاجهرات (romanised: Hâjêrât) The Eagles | ||
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Union | Tawilan Rugby Union (MTR) | ||
Head coach | Tim Rochdale | ||
Captain | Hassan Khalifa | ||
Most caps | Rayan Ibrahim (112) | ||
Top scorer | Edin Kremić (321) | ||
Top try scorer | Hassan Khalifa (128) | ||
Home stadium | National Stadium | ||
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World Rugby ranking | |||
Current | 7 ▲ 1 (as of 1 December 2023) | ||
Highest | 5 (June 2018 – March 2020) | ||
Lowest | 24 (September 2017) | ||
First international | |||
Tawil 34 – 67 Florian Repubilc (Bangkok, Thailand; 5 April 2018) | |||
Biggest win | |||
Tawil 103 – 73 Senya (Kostos, Tawil; 16 August 2023) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
Senya 100 – 75 Tawil (London, England; 6 September 2017) |
The Tawil national rugby union team (Tawilan: طاڤیل نشتانه ضهق رۉغبهئ; romanised: Tāvīl Naštānê Ẓêq Roġbeīy), is the national rugby union team that represents the State of Tawil. They play at the National Stadium, which is northwest of Kostos.
Venues
Tawil currently play at the National Stadium, whichis located northwest of Kostos and have since August 2023 and played their first match at the stadium against Senya, which became the record capacity of the stadium and the team’s biggest win.
From 2016, the team played at Rajamangala Stadium for charity matches until 2020 due to Coronavirus but Tawil also played in the Aswan Stadium occasionally but it stopped playing there in 2019 after failing to pay the rent.