Murrayfield | Murrayfield Stadium, home to the Scottish national rugby union team

The Scotland national rugby union team plays at Murrayfield Stadium, which is owned by the Scottish Rugby Union and is also used as a venue for other events, including music concerts.

A proposal, soon to be discussed in the European Parliament, stipulate that all national sports teams, including football, rugby, cricket and the European Olympic teams, should have the EU emblem appear on their jerseys.

Tasmania is not represented by teams in national rugby union, rugby league, netball, soccer, or basketball leagues.

In the movie Invictus, Mandela gives the captain of the national South African rugby team the poem to inspire him to lead his team to a Rugby World Cup win, telling him how it inspired him in prison.

The crest of Argentina's national federation in rugby union features a jaguar ; however, because of a historic accident, the country's national team is nicknamed Los Pumas.

The National Stadium, which was used by Wales national rugby union team, was officially opened on 7 April 1984, however in 1997 it was demolished to make way for the Millennium Stadium in 1999, which hosted the 1999 Rugby World Cup and became the national stadium of Wales.

At that stage, the cricket ground to the north was still being used by Glamorgan County Cricket Club, and the rugby union ground to the south was used by the national Wales team and Cardiff RFC.

Glamorgan County Cricket Club would move to Sophia Gardens and the cricket ground to the north would be demolished and a new rugby union stadium built for Cardiff RFC, who would move out of the south ground, allowing the National Stadium to be built, for the sole use of the national rugby union team.

Both Cardiff Cricket Club and Glamorgan then moved to a new ground at Sophia Gardens on the opposite bank of the River Taff to the Arms Park, following work on the creation of a national rugby stadium, later named the National Stadium.

The Arms Park rugby ground became the permanent home of the Wales national rugby union team in 1964.

In college, he played for the UC Berkeley rugby union team and helped them win a string of national championships.

* Manu Samoa, the national rugby union team of Samoa

Countries that have adopted rugby union as their de facto national sport include Fiji, Georgia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga and Wales.

It was adopted as a nickname or mascot by a number of South African sports teams, most famously by the national rugby union team.

The national rugby team still maintains the name Springboks, and are affectionately known by their supporters as the Boks.

The club is historically one of the three clubs that dominate the Dutch national football league ( Eredivisie ), the others being PSV and Feyenoord.

The season saw an unbeaten run in the national league and the final season for Frank Rijkaard, while striker Patrick Kluivert came off the bench to score a late winner to beat AC Milan in the final of the Champions League.

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This description prompted the first suggestions of regular interstate club competition and of overcoming the dichotomy and establishing a national league.

The new agreement tied independent contracts to the reserve-clause national league contracts.

Aged 14, he amassed 745 runs in the schoolboys ' league, with an average of 126. 16 per innings, which earned him selection for the Trinidad national under-16 team.

" 1992 saw the team repeat as national champions, becoming the first team to do so in league history and saw the start of the club's first youth team, the Blue Jays.

Water-based synthetic turfs enable the ball to be transferred more quickly than on the original sand-based surfaces and it is this characteristic that has made them the surface of choice for international and national league competitions.

Overall, they have won fifty-three official titles on the national and international stage, more than any other Italian club: a record twenty-eight league titles, a record nine Italian cups and five national super cups and, with eleven titles in confederation and inter-confederation competitions ( two Intercontinental Cups, two European Champion Clubs ' Cup / UEFA Champions Leagues, one European Cup Winners ' Cup, a record three UEFA Cups, one UEFA Intertoto Cup and two UEFA Super Cups ) the club currently ranks fourth in Europe and seventh in the world with the most trophies won.

This competition, for national knockout cup winners and high-placed league teams, was launched by UEFA in 1971 as a successor of both the former UEFA Cup and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup ( also begun in 1955 ).

In April 1927, José María Acha, a director at Arenas Club de Getxo, first proposed the idea of a national league in Spain.

The first attempt at a national major league was the short-lived National Association, which existed from 1871 to 1875.

Benetton Rugby has since become a major force in Italian rugby, with 11 league titles and supplying many players to the national team.

He struggled to adapt to the English game and failed to score in the club's next five league matches, prompting ridicule by the national press.

Sixteen years after the formation of the club and a mere three years after they were promoted to the highest level of Dutch football Feijenoord earned their first honours by capturing the national league championship in 1924.

In the 2002 – 03 season, the club managed to finish third in the national league, as well as reach the final of the Dutch Cup ( which was lost 1 – 4 to FC Utrecht ), but in the following years, Feyenoord disappointed in both the national league and the Dutch Cup.

Despite the efforts, Feyenoord underperformed once again in the national league, finishing in a disappointing sixth place.

Turku Titans is a lacrosse club based in Turku with a relevantly successful history with three silver medals and one gold medal in the national lacrosse league in Finland.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

ASU has won 23 national collegiate team championships in the following sports: baseball ( 5 ), men's golf ( 2 ), women's golf ( 7 ), men's gymnastics ( 1 ), softball ( 2 ), men's indoor track ( 1 ), women's indoor track ( 2 ), men's outdoor track ( 1 ), women's outdoor track ( 1 ), and wrestling ( 1 ).

With five national championships ( 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 ), Ajax was the most successful Dutch team of the nineteen thirties.

The club is also particularly famous for its renowned youth program that has produced many Dutch talents over the years – Johan Cruijff, Edwin van der Sar, Dennis Bergkamp, national team top scorer Patrick Kluivert, and former national team coach Marco van Basten.

In 1995, the year Ajax won the Champions League, the Dutch national team was almost entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin van der Sar in goal ; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer, and Danny Blind in defense ; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, and Clarence Seedorf in midfield ; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack.

* 1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

Under future national team manager Giuseppe Viani, promotion straight back up was achieved.

One of the very few motor manufacturers to actually sit in and race the cars he designed and built, the competition no doubt " improved the breed " and the " LM " team cars were very successful in national and international motor racing including at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.

* Craig Levein-current Scotland national football team manager

After the southern part of Ireland became independent in 1922, the team continued to be termed the British Isles, referring to the British Isles geographic term, rather than national citizenship.

Some saw the 1891 team — the first sanctioned by the Rugby Football Union — as the English national team, though others referred to it as " the British Isles ".

The squad had a notable Irish orientation, with the Irish national team contributing six players to the 21-man squad.

On tour, games take place against local provinces, clubs or representative sides as well as the full tests against the host's national team.

Brian Lara batting against Indian national cricket team | India at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, in 2002.

* Buffaloes, nickname of the South Africa national Australian rules football team

* Australia national basketball team, officially nicknamed " Australian Boomers "

| Real Madrid, and Los Angeles Galaxy and holds the all-time appearance record for an Outfield # Association football | outfield player in the England national football team | English national team.