New Caledonia national rugby union team
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The New Caledonia national rugby union team represents New Caledonia in rugby union. The team has been playing international rugby since the 1960s. All their matches have been against other teams from Oceania.[1][2]
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| Union | Comité Régional de Rugby de Nouvelle Calédonie |
|---|---|
| First international | |
| New Caledonia 0–34 Papua New Guinea (Nouméa, December 1966) | |
| Biggest win | |
| New Caledonia 36–5 Wallis and Futuna (Nouméa, 29 October 2001) | |
| Biggest defeat | |
| New Caledonia 3–113 Fiji (Port Moresby, 20 August 1969) | |
New Caledonia has competed at the South Pacific Games, winning a silver medal in 1966 [3] before finishing out of the medals at the 1969 games.[4] The team won the gold medal in 1987, defeating Cook Islands in the final in Nouméa,[5] and won gold again at the boycott-affected games in Papeete in 1995 where Tahiti was the only other competing team.[6]
More recently, the team has played for the FORU Oceania Cup. In 2008, their win over fellow Pacific rivals Vanuatu in Nouméa, 32–20, paved their way to the final of the competition, but New Caledonia lost the match to Niue, 5–27.[7][8]
Record
Below is a table of the representative rugby matches played by a New Caledonia national XV at test level up until 30 August 2008, updated after match with 
Niue.
| Opponent | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn | % Won |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cook Islands | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
 Fiji | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Fiji Warriors | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Niue | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
 Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% |
 Samoa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
 Solomon Islands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% |
 Tahiti | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
 Tonga | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
 Vanuatu | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75% |
 Wallis and Futuna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% |
| Total | 20 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 30% |
