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Is Rugby popular in North America? If so, which countries is Rugby popular in?

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No it isn't. I wish it was because I would love to learn how to play it and actually play it. I've watched it and it looks like a tough sport but it looks fun. Unfortunatly my school doesn't have it.
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Not at all. I live in America and darts and poker are on tv while there is no rugby.

I wish it was more popular.
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The Rugby "major nations":Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, South Africa, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France.

All other countries are called "minor nations" in rugby terminology. Among them, rugby is VERY POPULAR in:

all the Pacific Island nations (Fiji, Samoa, Tonga among others)

Southern Africa: Namibia, Zimbabwe

Europe: Romania (Yuppie, I live there!), Georgia.

   It is popular, in some quarters, in:

   Italy (north)

Canada (students)

Japan (students)

  Russia (the military)

North Africa, esp. Tunisia and Morocco (those who returned from studies in France)

the 2 bodies governing Rugby Union have 114 members;but in all other countries than the above, interest for rugby is marginal.
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it's fairly popular in canada, but not nearly as much as hockey. in the usa it's pretty popular at the university level, with most university's having club teams.
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it is getting more popular in america or just in my school we have 2 teams that we play and i love to watch it and play it
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No, it's not. It is popular in England.
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Rugby is becoming more and more popular worldwide. My opinion, ranking can tell alot about the popularity. Here's the latest World Rankings: Note that USA as well as Canada are in the Top 20.

1. NEW ZEALAND

2. FRANCE

3. AUSTRALIA

4. SOUTH AFRICA

5. IRELAND

6. ENGLAND

7. SCOTLAND

8. ARGENTINA

9. WALES

10. SAMOA

11. FIJI

12. ITALY

13. CANADA

14. USA

15. ROMANIA

16. TONGA

17. GEORGIA

18. URUGUAY

19.RUSSIA

20.JAPAN
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The South Pacific especially NZ...they eat and sleep rugby!!
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Not really......i live in North America and i don't think it is that popular
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No, not in USA. Is popular in:

Australia

New Zealand

England

France

Scotland

Wales

Ireland

South africa

Argentina

Fidji

Samoa

and then...

Italy

Canada

Spain

Romania

Tonga

Zimbawe

Uruguay

Chile

USA
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Rugby is somewhat popular in North America.

Of the Canada, USA & Mexico, I think you'll find that it is most popular in Canada, followed by USA then Mexico far behind either of those two.

This link has a chart of partipation levels:

http://www.rugbymag.com/archive/2003/aug...

Canada ranks 12th, USA 16th but given that Canada has about 1/10 the population of the USA, you can see that Rugby is much more popular in Canada than the US but even still it's not a major sport. An international game in Canada might draw about 5,000 may be 10,000 people at most. The game is most popular in BC and Ontario in Canada.
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no, all they have in America is American football.

try England

Ireland

Scotland

Philippines (just starting)

most European countries
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