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Lelo was played in Georgia from ancient times and is still played on occasions in rural areas. A field ("Lelo") was selected between two river creeks which represented a playing ground. Two teams, usually consisting of the male population of neighboring villages, would face each other, with the local
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A Moscow team won the first Soviet Championship, though Dynamo from Tbilisi came in second place. In 1967 a French trade-union selection visited Georgia. It would not be until 1978, in the Soviet Cup (which was introduced in 1976) that a Georgian team would finish first, which was Locomotivi from
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who taught the game to students in the late 1950s through to the mid-1960s, although he then subsequently returned in France. He is still alive and living in Marseille, he was interviewed on French radio on the occasion of Georgia playing France in the 2007 Rugby World Cup. The very first rugby
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is a second-level competition for tier-two European nations. Initially started as a one-year competition, the championship is now decided over two years with each team playing each other on a home and away basis. Georgia have won the competition on eight occasions, in 2001, 2008-9 and 2011–15.
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is contested between Georgia and Romania. The cup is contested each time Georgia and Romania meet in a senior international match other than World Cup matches or qualifiers. The holder retains the cup unless the challenger wins the match in normal time. It is named after the Romanian Orthodox
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In 1961, a three team domestic competition was formed, called the Tbilisi Championship. The following year the first match between a Georgian team and a Russian team took place, with Trud Moscow defeating the Georgian club. That year Georgian clubs also went on their first tours, going to
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In 1997, New Zealand coach Ross Meurant found the national team had only two practice balls, when he went to advise the Georgia Under-19 squad. This was typical of the lack of resources that the Georgians faced. Meurant said that the tackle bags that they were using were improvised:
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priest acting as the referee. The number of players from each side was not set, but included any able men each village could summon. A large, heavy ball was placed in the middle of the field and the goal of the game was to carry it over the river creek of the opposing side.
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has also set it on a back foot. Half of all Soviet clubs were in Georgia. The Georgians applied for associate membership of the IRB in 1990, but were turned down. It took two years for the IRB to admit them in 1990, after consultation with the Soviet Federation.
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were introduced for competitive club competition between Soviet rugby clubs, with the first competition being held in 1966. The Georgian clubs were formed as regional selections fed by student teams. The best players would go on to make the
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There were several unsuccessful attempts to introduce rugby into Georgia, the earliest known being in 1928, with subsequent attempts also in 1940 and in 1948. Rugby was introduced to Georgia by Jacques Haspekian, an
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In 1994 the Gumari were formed, being the Georgian Barbarians, and they went on to tour France. The following year saw the inauguration of the Sini competition. Their 1998 loss to
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The wife of another coach had stayed up half the night making them. This was not atypical. In the early 1990s, the Georgians had converted old Soviet era tractors into
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Rugby union is one of the most popular sports in Georgia. Rugby is especially popular in the south of the country where the game is more popular than
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Like some other rugby playing nations, the popularity of the game in Georgia can be traced back to a pre-existing Georgian folk sport, called
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In 1962, the first Soviet Trade-Union tournament was held. In the same year, ten new rugby teams were established in Georgia.
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They were of denim material, obviously stitched together on a domestic sewing machine and stuffed with rubber.
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in 2022, before finally being admitted to the main competition system in Europe, invited to take part in the
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are the domestic rugby union club competitions in Georgia. Since most of the Georgian internationals play in
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in World Cup rugby as a talented international lawyer with the ability to speak several languages fluently.
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The break-up of the Soviet Union led to a civil war, which helped set back the game greatly, and the recent
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had failed to qualify for any previous tournaments, despite coming close in 1999 after losing a two legged
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The Lelos (as they are nicknamed) are the national rugby union team of Georgia. The team's name comes from
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In 1964 the Tbilisi Rugby Section became known as the Georgia Rugby Federation. From the mid-1960s, the
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Tbilisi. Georgian teams dominated the Soviet Championship and the Soviet Cup in the late 1980s with
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During the Soviet period, the Georgians regularly had six or seven players in the
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The following year, Georgia played their first international match, against
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and Namibia, finished third in the group and automatically qualified for
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Crowds as large as 10–15,000 regularly attend local derbies in
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winning in 1989 and 1990. In 1988 Georgia produced their
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and another 44,000 watched Georgia beat Russia 17–13.
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The governing body for rugby union in Georgia is the
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Rugby union in Georgia (country)

Georgia
Romania
Rugby World Cup 2011
Georgia Rugby Union
Georgia
Rugby World Cup
Rugby World Cup Sevens
SVNS
Rugby Europe Championship
Didi 10
Georgian First League
Georgia Cup
Rugby union
Georgia
Georgia Rugby Union
International Rugby Board
lelo
Lelo Burti
Georgian
Rugby union in the Soviet Union
USSR side
Dinamo Tbilisi
Zimbabwe
Armenian
Marseille
France
Tbilisi
Russia

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