Norway national rugby union team

Norway
Union	Norges Rugbyforbund
Head coach	Richard White
Captain	Erik Cavan
	First colours
	First colours
World Rugby ranking
Current	106 (as of 4 November 2024)
Highest	105 (2024)
First international
	Denmark 30–12 Norway ; (1979-06-23)
Biggest win
	Norway 86–5 Finland ; (1 October 1989)
Biggest defeat
	Sweden 98–0 Norway ; (26 September 1992)

Norway national rugby union team (Norwegian: Norges nasjonale rugbyunionsteam) represents Norway in men's international rugby union competitions, It's a member of the Rugby Europe and plays in Rugby Europe's Conference 2- North Championship.

Norway's once-captain and a rare professional player is Erik Lund, who played until 2010 at lock for Leeds Carnegie. Erik is the brother of England international Magnus Lund, and joined him at Biarritz Olympique in France from autumn 2010. Lund had been unavailable to play for Norway since 2006, however played for Norway in May 2010 against Slovenia.

The national side is ranked 100th in the world (as of 8 August 2022).

Current squad

Norway's Training Squad for the 2016/17 Rugby Europe Conference 2- North Championship. Norway lost to Hungary; 41-7 (32-0), on 22 April in Eztergom. They defeated Estonia, 43-16 (17-13) on 6 May, in Oslo.

Name	Position	Club
Bastian Fromm	Prop	Blindern Rugbyklubb
Levan Abramishvili	Prop	Stavanger Rugbyklubb
Lloyd Hopkin	Prop	Bergen Rugbyklubb
Mats Hallerud	Prop	Blindern Rugbyklubb
Even Syrdahl Ellingsen	Hooker	Blindern Rugbyklubb
James Buncle	Hooker	Stavanger Rugbyklubb
Lasse Eri Marthinsen	Hooker	NTNUI Rugby
Merwan Boughalem	Hooker	Oslo Rugbyklubb
Axel Wilhelmsen	Lock	Stavanger Rugbyklubb
Magnus Andersson	Lock	Oslo Rugbyklubb
Martin Skovly	Lock	Oslo Rugbyklubb
Lars Thorkildsen	Flanker	Horten Rugbyklubb
Pascal Raclin	Flanker	Oslo Rugbyklubb
Andrew Fraser-Smith	Number 8	Blindern Rugbyklubb
Fredrik Skovly	Number 8	Oslo Rugbyklubb
Erik Cavan	Number 8	GHA RFC
Charles Henry Francis Pembroke-Birss	Halfback	Oslo Rugbyklubb
Jon Michael Moulton	Halfback	Blindern Rugbyklubb
Thierry Davy	Halfback	Blindern Rugbyklubb
Adriaan Botha	Flyhalf	Oslo Rugbyklubb
Aleksander Næss-Clarke	Flyhalf	Horten Rugbyklubb
Erlend Høen Laukvik	Centre	Oslo Rugbyklubb
Espen Høgset	Centre	Blindern Rugbyklubb
Kristoffer Borsheim	Centre	Stavanger Rugbyklubb
Mattias Lindqvist	Centre	NTNUI Rugby
Thomas Bichard-Breaud	Centre	Oslo Rugbyklubb
Carlos Rodriguez	Wing	Stavanger Rugbyklubb
Fredtrik Northun	Wing	Stavanger Rugbyklubb
Tobias Carcary Nygaard	Wing	NTNUI Rugby
Francis Ramon James Skaret Hunt	Fullback	Oslo Rugbyklubb

Coaching staff

Name	Position
Richard White	Head coach
Robert Gannon	Assistant coach
Glynn Southee	Assistant coach
Karina Breuer	Manager

Overall Record

Below is a table of the representative rugby matches played by a Norway national XV at test level up until 26 October 2024, updated after match with Latvia.

Against	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win percentage
Andorra	4	0	4	0	0%
Armenia	1	0	1	0	0%
Austria	10	5	4	1	50%
Azerbaijan	1	1	0	0	100%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	2	0	0	100%
Bulgaria	5	2	3	0	40%
Croatia	1	0	1	0	0%
Denmark	20	1	18	1	5%
Estonia	2	2	0	0	100%
Finland	19	11	8	0	57.89%
Greece	1	0	1	0	0%
Hong Kong	1	0	1	0	0%
Hungary	6	0	6	0	0%
Israel	5	1	4	0	20%
Latvia	6	0	6	0	0%
Lithuania	3	0	3	0	0%
Luxembourg	5	1	4	0	20%
Malta	1	0	0	1	0%
Moldova	1	0	1	0	0%
Monaco	1	0	1	0	0%
Poland	1	0	1	0	0%
Russia	1	0	1	0	0%
Slovenia	2	0	2	0	0%
Sweden	7	0	7	0	0%
Total	106	26	77	3	24.53%