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This article documents the statistics of the 2019 Rugby World Cup which was held in Japan from 20 September to 2 November.
Russia's Kirill Golosnitsky scored the first try of the tournament and Kotaro Matsushima of Japan scored the first hat-trick of the tournament.[1][2] Camille Lopez of France scored the first drop goal of the tournament.[3] Dan Biggar of Wales scored the fastest drop goal in Rugby World Cup history, after only 35 seconds in a pool match,[4] Cobus Reinach of South Africa scored the fastest hat-trick ever, scoring his 3rd try after only 20 minutes in the pool stage.[5]
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Team statistics
The following table shows the team's results in major statistical categories.[6]
Source: ESPNscrum.com Archived 13 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine
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Try scorers
- 7 tries
- 6 tries
- 5 tries
- 4 tries
- 3 tries
- 2 tries
Juan Cruz Mallia- Joaquín Tuculet
Will Genia- Michael Hooper
- Tevita Kuridrani
- Tolu Latu
Joe Cokanasiga- George Ford
Niko Matawalu- Waisea Nayacalevu
- Semi Radradra
- Api Ratuniyarawa
- Josua Tuisova
Gaël Fickou- Alivereti Raka
- Virimi Vakatawa
Levan Chilachava- Alexander Todua
Rory Best- Tadhg Furlong
- Rob Kearney
- Garry Ringrose
- Johnny Sexton
Mattia Bellini- Matteo Minozzi
Scott Barrett- George Bridge
- Anton Lienert-Brown
- Joe Moody
- Sevu Reece
- Aaron Smith
- Brad Weber
Ed Fidow- Alapati Leiua
Adam Hastings
Lukhanyo Am- Schalk Brits
- Damian de Allende
- Warrick Gelant
Mali Hingano
Blaine Scully- Mike Te'o
Manuel Diana
Gareth Davies- Liam Williams
- Tomos Williams
- 1 try
- Gonzalo Bertranou
- Santiago Carreras
- Jerónimo de la Fuente
- Matías Moroni
- Guido Petti
- Nicolás Sánchez
- Adam Ashley-Cooper
- Jack Dempsey
- Reece Hodge
- Samu Kerevi
- Jordan Petaia
- James Slipper
- Nic White
Andrew Coe- Matt Heaton
- Elliot Daly
- Jamie George
- Lewis Ludlam
- Ruaridh McConnochie
- Jack Nowell
- Kyle Sinckler
- Billy Vunipola
- Ben Youngs
- Anthony Watson
- Mesu Dolokoto
- Semi Kunatani
- Frank Lomani
- Eroni Mawi
- Kini Murimurivalu
- Peceli Yato
- Antoine Dupont
- Yoann Huget
- Charles Ollivon
- Jefferson Poirot
- Baptiste Serin
- Sébastien Vahaamahina
- Jaba Bregvadze
- Otar Giorgadze
- Mamuka Gorgodze
- Giorgi Kveseladze
- Shalva Mamukashvili
- Robbie Henshaw
- Jordan Larmour
- Peter O'Mahony
- Rhys Ruddock
- James Ryan
- CJ Stander
- Tommaso Allan
- Dean Budd
- Carlo Canna
- Sebastian Negri
- Jake Polledri
- Braam Steyn
- Tito Tebaldi
- Federico Zani
Keita Inagaki- Pieter Labuschagne
- Kazuki Himeno
- Timothy Lafaele
JC Greyling- Chad Plato
- Damian Stevens
- Ryan Crotty
- Shannon Frizell
- Rieko Ioane
- Richie Mo'unga
- TJ Perenara
- Ardie Savea
- Angus Ta'avao
- Codie Taylor
- Matt Todd
- Sam Whitelock
- Sonny Bill Williams
Kirill Golosnitsky- Afa Amosa
- Jack Lam
- Rey Lee-Lo
- Henry Taefu
- John Barclay
- Zander Fagerson
- Greig Laidlaw
- Sean Maitland
- Stuart McInally
- Finn Russell
- Tommy Seymour
- George Turner
- WP Nel
- Faf de Klerk
- Frans Malherbe
- Pieter-Steph du Toit
- Siya Kolisi
- Francois Louw
- Frans Malherbe
- Malcolm Marx
- S'busiso Nkosi
- RG Snyman
- François Steyn
- Damian Willemse
- Siegfried Fisiihoi
- Zane Kapeli
- Siale Piutau
- Sonatane Takulua
- Bryce Campbell
- Tony Lamborn
- Paul Lasike
- Santiago Arata
- Germán Kessler
- Juan Manuel Cat
- Andrés Vilaseca
- Hallam Amos
- Jonathan Davies
- Ross Moriarty
- George North
- Hadleigh Parkes
- Nicky Smith
- Justin Tipuric
- Aaron Wainwright
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Conversion scorers
- 20 conversions
- 14 conversions
- 11 conversions
- 10 conversions
- 9 conversions
- 8 conversions
- 7 conversions
- 6 conversions
- 5 conversions
- 4 conversions
- 3 conversions
- 2 conversions
- 1 conversion
Penalty goal scorers
- 16 penalties
- 12 penalties
- 11 penalties
- 6 penalties
- 5 penalties
- 4 penalties
- 3 penalties
- 2 penalties
- 1 penalty
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Drop goal scorers
- 1 drop goal
Point scorers
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Kicking accuracy
Scoring
Overall
- Total number of points scored: 2,195
- Average points per match: 48.8
- Total number of tries scored: 285 (including 8 penalty tries)
- Average tries per match: 6.3
- Total number of braces: 28
- Total number of hat-tricks: 5
- Total number of conversions missed: 277
- Total number of conversions scored: 69
- Conversion success rate: ??%
- Total number of penalty goals missed: ??
- Total number of penalty goals scored: 107
- Penalty goal success rate: ??%
- Total number of drop goals scored: 6
Timing
- First try of the tournament: Kirill Golosnitsky for Russia against Japan
- First brace of the tournament: Kotaro Matsushima for Japan against Russia
- First hat-trick of the tournament: Kotaro Matsushima for Japan against Russia
- Last try of the tournament: Cheslin Kolbe for South Africa against England
- Last brace of the tournament: Ben Smith for New Zealand against Wales
- Last hat-trick of the tournament: Josh Adams for Wales against Fiji
- Fastest try in a match from kickoff: 2nd minute (1:29), Rob Kearney for Ireland against Russia
- Fastest try in a match from a restart-kick: 19 seconds after a restart, Gareth Davies for Wales against Australia
- Latest try in a match: 80+5th minute (84:26), Kotaro Matsushima for Japan against Samoa
- Fastest Bonus Point try: 18th minute (17:21), Cobus Reinach for South Africa against Canada
- Latest Bonus Point try: 80+5th minute (84:26), Kotaro Matsushima for Japan against Samoa
- Fastest point scored in a match: 1st minute (00:36), Dan Biggar's drop-goal for Wales against Australia
Teams
- Most points scored by a team in the pool stage: 185 by South Africa
- Fewest points scored by a team in the pool stage: 14 by Canada
- Most points conceded by a team in the pool stage: 177 by Canada
- Fewest points conceded by a team in the pool stage: 27 by Ireland
- Best point difference by a team in the pool stage: +149 by South Africa
- Worst point difference by a team in the pool stage: −163 by Canada
- Most points scored by a team in the knockout stage: 93 by New Zealand
- Fewest points scored by a team in the knockout stage: 3 by Japan
- Most points conceded by a team in the knockout stage: 78 by wales
- Fewest points conceded by a team in the knockout stage: 20 by France
- Most points scored by a team overall: 262 by South Africa
- Fewest points conceded by a team overall: 55 by Scotland
- Most points scored in a match by both teams: 80 points, New Zealand 71–9 Namibia
- Most points scored in a match by one team: 71 by New Zealand
- Most points scored in a match by the losing team: 27 by Fiji
- Biggest margin of victory: 63 by New Zealand
- Most tries scored by a team in the pool stage: 27 by South Africa
- Most tries scored by a team in the knockout stage: 14 by New Zealand
- Fewest tries scored by a team: 1 by Russia
- Most tries scored in a match: 11 tries, New Zealand (11) vs Namibia (0) and
South Africa (10) vs Canada (1) - Most tries scored in a match by one team: 11 by New Zealand
- Most wins achieved by a team: 6 by South Africa
- Fewest wins achieved by a team: 0 by
- Most losses achieved by a team: 4 by
- Fewest losses achieved by a team: 1 by
- Most consecutive wins achieved by a team: 6 by South Africa
- Most consecutive losses achieved by a team: 4 by
- Most pool points: 19 by Japan and Wales
- Fewest pool points: 0 by Russia and United States
- Most bonus points: 4 by South Africa
- Fewest bonus points: 0 by
- Largest ranking difference win by a lower ranked team: 9 places – Uruguay (19th) vs Fiji (10th)
- Largest ranking difference win by a higher ranked team: 21 places – New Zealand (1st) vs Canada (22nd)
Individual
- Most points scored by an individual: 69 - Handré Pollard (South Africa)
- Most tries scored by an individual (Back): 7 - Josh Adams (Wales)
- Most tries scored by an individual (Forward): 4 - Julián Montoya (Argentina)
- Most conversions scored by an individual: 20 - Richie Mo'unga (New Zealand)
- Most penalty goals scored by an individual: 16 - Handré Pollard (South Africa)
- Most drop goals scored by an individual: 1
- Most tackles made by an individual: 79 - Alun Wyn Jones (Wales)
- Most lineouts won by an individual: 26 - Guido Petti (Argentina)
- Most lineouts stolen by an individual: 5
- Most clean breaks made by an individual: 18 - Josh Adams (Wales)
- Most offloads made by an individual: 12 - Leone Nakarawa (Fiji)
- Most metres made by an individual: 460 - Beauden Barrett (New Zealand)
- Most carries made by an individual: 86 - Beauden Barrett (New Zealand)
- Most turnovers won by an individual: 11 - Maro Itoje (England)
- Most points scored by one player in a match: 26 - Adam Hastings for Scotland vs Russia
- Most tries scored by one player in a match: 3
- Josh Adams for Wales vs Fiji
- George Horne for Scotland vs Russia
- Kotaro Matsushima for Japan vs Russia
- Julián Montoya for Argentina vs Tonga
- Cobus Reinach for South Africa vs Canada
- Most conversions scored by one player in a match: 8
- Jordie Barrett for New Zealand vs Namibia
- Adam Hastings for Scotland vs Russia
- Elton Jantjies for South Africa vs Canada
- Richie Mo'unga for New Zealand vs Canada
- Most penalty goals scored by one player in a match: 6 - Handré Pollard for South Africa vs England
- Highest kicking accuracy by an individual: 100%
- Highest kicking accuracy by an individual (minimum 10 attempts): 70.27% - Handré Pollard for South Africa
- Lowest kicking accuracy by an individual: 0%
- Lowest kicking accuracy by an individual (minimum 10 attempts): 70% - Nicolás Sánchez for Argentina
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Hat-tricks
Unless otherwise noted, players in this list scored a hat-trick of tries.
Man of the match awards
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Squads
Coaches
- Oldest coach: Jacques Brunel of France - (65 years and 279 days) in the quarter-final game against Wales.
- Youngest coach: Toutai Kefu of Tonga - (45 years and 167 days) in the first game against England.
- Country with most coaches: New Zealand (7)
- John Mckee of Fiji
- Milton Haig of Georgia
- Joe Schmidt of Ireland
- Jamie Joseph of Japan
- Steve Hansen of New Zealand
- Steve Jackson of Samoa
- Warren Gatland of Wales
- Teams with foreign coaches: 14
- Coaches who were former players: 7.[7]
- Phil Davies of Namibia (1987 and 1991 with Wales)
- Rassie Erasmus of South Africa (1999 with South Africa)
- Jamie Joseph of Japan (1995 with New Zealand and 1999 with Japan)
- Toutai Kefu of Tonga (1999 with Australia)
- Mario Ledesma of Argentina (1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 with Argentina)
- Conor O'Shea of Italy (1995 and 1999 with Ireland)
- Gregor Townsend of Scotland (1999 and 2003 with Scotland)
- Longest serving coach: Warren Gatland of Wales since November 2007.[8]
- Shortest serving coach: Steve Jackson of Samoa since September 2018.[9]
- Coaches with previous Head Coaching World Cup experience: 10
- Jacques Brunel of France (Head Coach of Italy in 2015)
- Michael Cheika of Australia (Head Coach of Australia in 2015)
- Phil Davies of Namibia (Head Coach of Namibia in 2015)
- Warren Gatland of Wales (Head Coach of Ireland in 1999 & Head Coach of Wales in 2011 & 2015)
- Milton Haig of Georgia (Head Coach of Georgia in 2015)
- Steve Hansen of New Zealand (Head Coach of Wales in 2003 & Head Coach of New Zealand in 2015)
- Eddie Jones of England (Head Coach of Australia in 2003 & Head Coach of Japan in 2015)
- Kingsley Jones of Canada (Head Coach of Russia in 2011)
- John McKee of Fiji (Head Coach of Fiji in 2015)
- Joe Schmidt of Ireland (Head Coach of Ireland in 2015)
Players
- Five squads had no players based outside their respective home countries:
- Squads having the fewest players playing domestically are: Tonga (0)
- The most players (96) are active in clubs based in France, the majority of them in the Top 14, with some in the lower leagues.
- Appearance record: Sergio Parisse of Italy participated in the Rugby World Cup for the fifth time, equalling the record of compatriot Mauro Bergamasco and Samoa player Brian Lima.[10]
- Oldest player: Luke Thompson of Japan (38 years and 187 days - vs South Africa)
- Youngest player: Vano Karkadze of Georgia (19 years and 96 days - vs Uruguay)
- Beauden Barrett, Jordie Barrett and Scott Barrett became the first trio of brothers to start in a World Cup match (vs Canada) for New Zealand, and the second set to all start in a Rugby World Cup match since Tonga's Elisi Vunipola, Manu Vunipola, and Fe'ao Vunipola in 1995 (vs Scotland).[11] The Barrett brothers are the first trio of brothers to score a try in the same match.[12][13]
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Discipline
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- Fewest penalties conceded by a team: 19 by Uruguay
- Most penalties conceded by a team: 61 by Wales
- Fewest penalties conceded on average matches played: 4.75 by Uruguay (4 Games played)
- Most penalties conceded on average matches played: 12.75 by Samoa (4 Games played)
- Most penalties conceded by an individual: 10 by Tyler Ardron (Canada)
- Most penalty tries conceded by one team: 2 by
- Most penalty tries conceded by one team in a match: 2 by Samoa vs Scotland
- Most yellow cards issued to one team: 6 by Samoa
- Most red cards issued to one team: 1 by
- Most cards issued in one match: 4, Wales (2,
) vs Fiji (2, ) - Most citing's issued to one team: 4 by Samoa
Yellow cards
- 2 yellow cards
- 1 yellow card
- Adam Coleman (vs Uruguay)
- Isi Naisarani (vs Georgia)
- Lukhan Salakaia-Loto (vs Uruguay)
- Matt Heaton (vs Italy)
- Levani Botia (vs Australia)
- Tevita Cavubati (vs Wales)
- Semi Kunatani (vs Wales)
- Jaba Bregvadze (vs Wales)
- Tadhg Beirne (vs Scotland)
- Adriaan Booysen (vs South Africa)
- Aranos Coetzee (vs South Africa)
- Nepo Laulala (vs Namibia)
- Matt Todd (vs Ireland)
- Ofa Tu'ungafasi (vs Namibia)
- Bogdan Fedotko (vs Ireland)
- Kirill Gotovtsev (vs Samoa)
- Andrei Ostrikov (vs Ireland)
- Rey Lee-Lo (vs Russia)
- Motu Matu'u (vs Russia)
- Tendai Mtawarira (vs Japan)
- Santiago Civetta (vs Wales)
- James Davies (vs Fiji)
- Ken Owens (vs Fiji)
- Ross Moriarty (vs France)
Red cards
A record fifth red card for a Rugby World Cup was issued, surpassing the four given out in 1995 and 1999.[14] In total, eight red cards were issued during the tournament.
- 1 red card
- Tomás Lavanini (vs England)
- Josh Larsen (vs South Africa)
- Sébastien Vahaamahina (vs Wales)
- Bundee Aki (vs Samoa)
- Andrea Lovotti (vs South Africa)
- Ed Fidow (vs Scotland)
- Facundo Gattas (vs Georgia)
- John Quill (vs England)
Penalty tries
- 2 penalty tries
- 1 penalty try
Citing/bans
For the 2019 Rugby World Cup, Citing Commissioner Warnings carry the same weight as a yellow card.[15]
Stadiums
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Attendances
Top 10 highest attendances.
- Lowest attendance: 14,025 – Fiji vs Uruguay, Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium, Kamaishi, 25 September 2019
See also
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References
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