List of international rugby union tries by Israel Folau

Israel Folau is a Tongan Australian international rugby union player. Folau started his international career with Australia (2013–2019) and primarily played as a fullback for them, however was deployed as a wing and also an outside centre as well. While Folau was playing for Australia internationally, he played for the New South Wales Waratahs in the Super Rugby. He made his international debut for Australia against the British & Irish Lions during their 2013 tour series, scoring the first try of the match, and of the game.

After his contract with the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) was axed in 2019, Folau racked up a total of thirty-seven tries in seventy-three matches, and became the fourth highest try-scoring Australian player.^[1]

In 2021, following eligibility changes made by World Rugby, Folau was eligible to play for Tonga. Folau changed allegiance to play for Tonga, and was selected to the Tongan squad for the 2022 Pacific Nations Cup.

International tries^[2]

No.	Opponent	Location	Competition	Date	Result	Ref.
Tries for  Australia
1	British & Irish Lions	Lang Park, Brisbane	2013 British & Irish Lions tour of Australia	22 June 2013	21–23	[3][4]
2
3	New Zealand	Wellington Regional Stadium, Wellington	2013 Rugby Championship	24 August 2013	27–16	[5]
4	Argentina	Subiaco Oval, Perth		14 September 2013	14–13	[6]
5		Estadio Gigante de Arroyito, Rosario		5 October 2013	17–54	[7]
6
7
8	Italy	Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, Turin	2013 Autumn International	9 November 2013	20–50	[8]
9	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh		23 November 2013	15–21	[9]
10	Wales	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff		30 November 2013	26–30	[10]
11	France	Lang Park, Brisbane	2014 France tour of Australia	7 June 2014	50–23	[11]
12		Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney		21 June 2014	39–13	[12]
13
14	New Zealand	Eden Park, Auckland	2014 Rugby Championship	23 August 2014	51–20	[13]
15	South Africa	Subiaco Oval, Perth		6 September 2014	24–23	[14]
16	Wales	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	2014 Autumn International	8 November 2014	28–33	[15]
17
18	New Zealand	Eden Park, Auckland	2015 Rugby World Cup warm-up match	15 August 2015	41–13	[16]
19	England	Lang Park, Brisbane	2016 England tour of Australia	11 June 2016	28–39	[17]
20		Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney		25 June 2016	40–44	[18]
21	Fiji	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Melbourne	2017 June International	10 June 2017	37–14	[19]
22
23	Scotland	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney		17 June 2017	19–24	[20]
24
25	Italy	Lang Park, Brisbane		24 June 2017	40–27	[21]
26
27	New Zealand	Stadium Australia, Sydney	2017 Rugby Championship	19 August 2017	34–54	[22]
28		Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin		26 August 2017	35–29	[23]
29	Argentina	Canberra Stadium, Canberra		16 September 2017	45–20	[24]
30
31	South Africa	Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein		30 September 2017	27–27	[25]
32	New Zealand	Lang Park, Brisbane	2017 Autumn International	21 October 2017	23–18	[26]
33	Argentina	Robina Stadium, Gold Coast	2018 Rugby Championship	15 September 2018	19–23	[27]
34		Estadio Padre Ernesto Martearena, Salta		6 October 2018	34–45	[28]
35	New Zealand	Int. Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama (Japan)	2018 Autumn International	27 October 2018	37–20	[29]
36	England	Twickenham Stadium, London		24 November 2018	37–18	[30]
37
Tries for  Tonga
To be determined

International tries by opponent Opponent Matches Tries Try ratio P W D L % Tries for  Australia  Argentina 12 10 0 2 83 8 0.667  New Zealand 17 2 1 14 12 7 0.412  England 8 1 0 7 13 4 0.500  Italy 3 3 0 0 100 3 1.000  Scotland 3 2 0 1 67 3 1.000  France 4 3 0 1 75 3 0.750  Wales 5 4 0 1 80 3 0.600  Fiji 2 2 0 0 100 2 1.000  British & Irish Lions 3 1 0 2 33 2 0.667  South Africa 10 3 2 5 30 2 0.200  Ireland 6 2 0 4 33 0 0.000 Tries for  Tonga  Australia A 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.000  Fiji 1 0 0 1 0 0 0.000 Total 75 34 3 38 45 37 0.493 Opponent P W D L % Tries Try ratio Matches

Hat-tricks Opponent Location Competition Date Result  Argentina Estadio Gigante de Arroyito, Rosario 2013 Rugby Championship 5 October 2013 17–54 Tries per year; ratio Year Caps Tries Try ratio 2013 15 10 0.67 2014 14 7 0.50 2015 9 1 0.11 2016 14 2 0.14 2017 10 12 1.20 2018 11 5 0.45 2022 1 0 — 2023 1 0 —