The World Rugby Hall of Fame (formerly the IRB Hall of Fame) recognises special achievement and contribution to the sport of rugby union. The World Rugby Hall of Fame covers players, coaches, administrators, match officials, institutions and other individuals.[1] The Hall of Fame recognises the history and important contributions to the game, through one or more induction ceremonies that have been held annually except in 2010. The permanent physical home of the Hall of Fame was based at the Rugby Art Gallery, Museum & Library in Rugby, Warwickshire from 2016 until 2021.[2][3]

History

The Hall of Fame was introduced by the International Rugby Board (as World Rugby was then known) during the 2006 IRB Awards ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland. The inaugural inductees were William Webb Ellis, who apocryphally caught the ball during a football game and ran with it, and Rugby School, which has left a huge legacy with the game in a number of ways.[4]

The second induction to the Hall of Fame took place in Paris on 21 October 2007, the night after the 2007 Rugby World Cup final.[5] The next induction was in London on 23 November 2008.[6]

The third induction, in which nine figures entered the Hall, was held on 27 October 2009 at Rugby School. The voting process for the class of 2009 was geared toward the history of British & Irish Lions tours to South Africa, the most recent of which took place in that year; all of the candidates were either Lions or Springboks.[7]

For 2011, induction ceremonies were held at various locations around the world,[8][9] with the year's final ceremony taking place as part of the 2011 IRB Awards on 24 October in Auckland, the day after the Rugby World Cup final in that city.[10] The inductions at the Auckland ceremony, according to the IRB, were "under the theme of Rugby World Cup founders, visionaries and iconic figures,"[10] and were made in three groups—first for the founders of the RWC, then all World Cup-winning captains and coaches through the 2007 World Cup (minus John Eales, inducted in 2007), and finally other iconic players of the World Cup.[11]

The pattern begun in 2011 was repeated in 2012, with six induction ceremonies being held in six countries. As in the two previous induction cycles, the 2012 inductions had an overriding theme; "Rugby - A Global Game". According to the IRB, it "celebrates Rugby’s expansion to become a global sport played by millions of men and women worldwide."[12]

On 31 July 2014, the IRB announced that its Hall would merge with the separate International Rugby Hall of Fame later in 2014. The merger saw the 37 members of the International Hall who had not already been honoured by the IRB formally enter the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2014 and 2015.[13] The 2014 class of inductees also included six women.

On 19 November the IRB rebranded as World Rugby, and the Hall of Fame became known as the World Rugby Hall Of Fame.

Inductees

Year No. Nation Inductee Link
2006  England William Webb Ellis
 England Rugby School
2007  South Africa Danie Craven
 France Pierre de Coubertin
 Australia John Eales
 Wales Gareth Edwards
 New Zealand Wilson Whineray
2008  New Zealand 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team
 Scotland Ned Haig
 Ireland Jack Kyle
 Scotland Melrose Rugby Football Club
 Argentina Hugo Porta
 France Philippe Sella
 New Zealand Joseph Astbury Warbrick
2009  South Africa and
 Argentina
Barry Heatlie
 Scotland Bill Maclagan
 Ireland Willie John McBride
 Scotland Ian McGeechan
 Ireland Syd Millar
 Wales Cliff Morgan
 Ireland Tony O'Reilly
 South Africa Bennie Osler
 South Africa Frik du Preez
2011  United Kingdom Barbarian Football Club
 France Serge Blanco
 France André Boniface
 Wales Cardiff Rugby Football Club
 England William Percy Carpmael
 New Zealand Dave Gallaher
 Ireland Mike Gibson
 Wales Frank Hancock
 France Lucien Mias
 France Jean Prat
 England Alan Rotherham
 England Harry Vassall
 South Africa Kitch Christie
 Australia Bob Dwyer
 Australia Nick Farr-Jones
 England Martin Johnson
 England John Kendall-Carpenter
 New Zealand David Kirk
 Samoa Brian Lima
 New Zealand Dick Littlejohn
 New Zealand Brian Lochore
 New Zealand Jonah Lomu
 Australia Rod Macqueen
 South Africa François Pienaar
 Argentina Agustín Pichot
 Canada Gareth Rees
 Australia Nicholas Shehadie
 South Africa John Smit
 Australia IR Vanderfield
 South Africa Jake White
 England Clive Woodward
2012  United States 1920 and 1924 United States Olympic rugby team
 Romania 1924 Romania Olympic rugby team
 Chile Donald Campbell
 Chile Ian Campbell
 Japan Yoshihiro Sakata
 New Zealand Gordon Tietjens
 Zimbabwe Kennedy Tsimba
 Zimbabwe Richard Tsimba
2013  Scotland David Bedell-Sivright
 Australia David Campese
 Australia Ken Catchpole
 Ireland Ronnie Dawson
 Australia Mark Ella
 Australia George Gregan
 England Alfred St. George Hamersley
 Scotland Gavin Hastings
 Soviet Union Vladimir Ilyushin
 Australia Thomas Lawton, Snr
 Wales Jack Matthews
 United Kingdom Robert Seddon
 United Kingdom 1888 British Lions
 Fiji Waisale Serevi
 Australia John Thornett
 Wales Bleddyn Williams
2014  New Zealand Fred Allen
 New Zealand Don Clarke
 New Zealand Grant Fox
 New Zealand Sean Fitzpatrick
 New Zealand Michael Jones
 New Zealand Ian Kirkpatrick
 New Zealand John Kirwan
 New Zealand Terry McLean
 New Zealand Colin Meads
 New Zealand Graham Mourie
 New Zealand George Nēpia
 France Nathalie Amiel[n 1]
 England Gillian Burns[n 1]
 United States Patty Jervey[n 1]
 England Carol Isherwood[n 1]
 New Zealand Anna Richards[n 1]
 New Zealand Farah Palmer[n 1]
 Wales Keith Rowlands
 Scotland James Greenwood
 Wales J.P.R. Williams
 Australia Michael Lynagh
 France Jo Maso
 Ireland Keith Wood
 Wales Ieuan Evans
 England Jason Leonard
 England Jonny Wilkinson
 England Bill Beaumont
2015  Australia Tim Horan
 Australia Tom Richards
 England Edgar Mobbs
 England Ronald Poulton-Palmer
 England Wavell Wakefield
 France Jean-Pierre Rives
 France Marcel Communeau
 Ireland Basil Maclear
 Ireland Fergus Slattery
 Ireland Tom Kiernan
 Scotland Andy Irvine
 Scotland Bill McLaren
 Scotland Gordon Brown
 South Africa Danie Gerber
 South Africa Hennie Muller
 South Africa Joost van der Westhuizen
 South Africa Morne du Plessis
 South Africa Naas Botha
 South Africa Nelson Mandela
 Wales Barry John
 Wales Carwyn James
 Wales Gerald Davies
 Wales Gwyn Nicholls
 Wales Mervyn Davies
 Wales Phil Bennett
 Wales Johnny Williams
2016  Australia and
 United States
Daniel Carroll
 Canada Heather Moyse[n 1]
 England Margaret Alphonsi[n 1]
 England Lawrence Dallaglio
 England Jeremy Guscott
 Ireland Brian O'Driscoll
 Japan Daisuke Ohata
 Scotland G.P.S. Macpherson
 Wales John Dawes
 Wales Arthur Gould
 Wales Shane Williams
2017 133  Argentina Felipe Contepomi
134  Canada Al Charron
135  France Fabien Pelous
136  England Rob Andrew
137  United States Phaidra Knight[n 1]
2018 138  Australia Stephen Larkham
139  Ireland Ronan O'Gara
140  France Pierre Villepreux
141  New Zealand Bryan Williams
142  Wales Liza Burgess[n 1]
2019 143  New Zealand Richie McCaw
144  Japan Shiggy Konno
145  South Africa Os du Randt
146  Samoa Peter Fatialofa
147  New Zealand Graham Henry
148  Uruguay Diego Ormaechea
2021 149  Fiji Osea Kolinisau
150  Kenya Humphrey Kayange
151  New Zealand Huriana Manuel[n 1]
152  Australia Cheryl McAfee[n 1]
153  England Will Carling
154  Scotland Jim Telfer
2022 155  England Deborah Griffin[n 1]
156  England Sue Dorrington[n 1]
157  England Alice Cooper[n 1]
158  England Mary Forsyth[n 1]
159  United States Kathy Flores[n 1]
160  New Zealand Fiao'o Fa'amausili[n 1]
2023 161  England The Varsity Matches
162  New Zealand Dan Carter
163  France Thierry Dusautoir
164  Australia George Smith
165  Argentina Juan Martín Hernández
166  South Africa Bryan Habana

See also

Footnotes

References

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  2. "World Rugby Hall of Fame: Jonny Wilkinson attends launch". BBC News Coventry and Warwickshire. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  3. "World Rugby Hall of Fame set to close as deal ends and council tightens purse strings". Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  4. Two inaugural inductees in IRB Hall of Fame irb.com
  5. Rugby News Service (21 October 2007). "Habana named IRB Player of the Year". International Rugby Board. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2007.
  6. "IRB Hall of Fame Welcomes Five Inductees". International Rugby Board. 23 November 2008. Archived from the original on 24 August 2010. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
  7. "Nine inductees to join IRB Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 23 October 2009. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2009.
  8. "Five French legends into IRB Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 19 March 2011. Archived from the original on 5 May 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  9. "Hancock and Cardiff inducted to Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 6 May 2011. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  10. 1 2 "Stars set for glittering finale at IRB Awards" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 5 October 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  11. "RWC legends inducted into IRB Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 26 October 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
  12. "Chilean Rugby greats added to IRB Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 26 May 2012. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  13. "Rugby greats to join definitive Hall of Fame" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 31 July 2014. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
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