List of international rugby union tries by David Campese

David Campese is a former Australia rugby union fullback and winger. Campese is considered to be a once in a generation player, and since his retirement has held the most test tries for the Wallabies with sixty-four. Between 1982 and 1998. Campese held the most international tries scored by any player, being overtaken by Japanese winger Daisuke Ohata, the current record-holder. Originally Campese overtook Scottish winger Ian Smith, who, with twenty-four international tries, held the world record from the 1930s.^[1] However, when Campese overtook Smith's record (1987), he was an active player, and grew the record out to a significant margin by his retirement (1996).

In August 2016 South African winger Bryan Habana scored his sixty-fifth try, overtaking Campese's record. Habana was just the second international player to overtake Campese.

Currently David Campese is the third highest international try-scorer in the world, and is twenty-four tries ahead of the second-most try-scoring Wallaby Chris Latham with forty.

International tries

List of International tries

International tries^[2]

No.	Opponent	Location	Competition	Date	Result	Ref.
1	New Zealand	Lancaster Park, Christchurch	1982 Australia tour of New Zealand	14 August 1982	23–16	[3]
2		Athletic Park, Wellington		28 August 1982	16–19	[4]
3	United States	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	1983 United States tour of Canada and Australia	9 July 1983	49–3	[5]
4
5
6
7	Argentina	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	1983 Argentina tour of Australia	7 August 1983	29–13	[6]
8	Fiji	National Stadium, Suva	1984 Australia tour of Fiji	9 June 1984	3–16	[7]
9	New Zealand	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	1984 New Zealand tour of Australia	18 August 1984	24–25	[8]
10	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh	1984 Australia tour of Great Britain and Ireland	8 December 1984	12–37	[9]
11
12	Fiji	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	1985 Fiji tour of Australia	17 August 1985	31–9	[10]
13
14	Italy	Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane	1986 Italy tour of Australia	1 June 1986	39–18	[11]
15
16	France	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	1986 France tour of Argentina, Australia and New Zealand	21 June 1986	27–14	[12]
17	Argentina	Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane	1986 Argentina tour of Australia	6 July 1986	39–19	[13]
18		Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney		12 July 1986	26–0	[14]
19
20	New Zealand	Athletic Park, Wellington	1986 Australia tour of New Zealand	9 August 1986	12–13	[15]
21		Eden Park, Auckland		6 September 1986	9–22	[16]
22	England	Concord Oval, Sydney(P1)	1987 Rugby World Cup	23 May 1987	19–6	[17]
23	United States	Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane(P1)		31 May 1987	47–12	[18]
24	Japan	Concord Oval, Sydney(P1)		3 June 1987	42–23	[19]
25	France	Concord Oval, Sydney(SF)		13 June 1987	24–30	[20]
26	England	Concord Oval, Sydney	1988 England tour of Australia and Fiji	12 June 1988	28–8	[21]
27		Twickenham Stadium, London	1988 Australia tour of Great Britain and Italy	5 November 1988	28–19	[22]
28	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh		19 November 1988	13–32	[23]
29
30	Italy	Stadio Flaminio, Rome		3 December 1988	6–55	[24]
31
32
33	New Zealand	Eden Park, Auckland	1989 Australia tour of New Zealand	5 August 1989	24–12	[25]
34	France	Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg	1989 Australia tour of Canada and France	4 November 1989	15–32	[26]
35		Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane	1990 France tour of Australia	24 June 1990	48–31	[27]
36		Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney		30 June 1990	19–28	[28]
37	United States	Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane	1990 United States tour of Australia	8 July 1990	67–9	[29]
38	Wales	Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane	1991 Wales tour of Australia	22 July 1991	63–6	[30]
39	England	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney	1991 England tour of Australia	27 July 1991	40–15	[31]
40
41	Argentina	Stradey Park, Llanelli (Wales)(P3)	1991 Rugby World Cup	4 October 1991	19–32	[32]
42
43	Wales	Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff (Wales)(P3)		12 October 1991	3–38	[33]
44	Ireland	Lansdowne Road, Dublin (Ireland)(QF)		20 October 1991	18–19	[34]
45
46	New Zealand	Lansdowne Road, Dublin (Ireland)(SF)		27 October 1991	16–6	[35]
47	Scotland	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney	1992 Scotland tour of Australia	13 June 1992	27–12	[36]
48
49	New Zealand	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney	1992 New Zealand tour of Australia and South Africa	4 July 1992	16–15	[37]
50	South Africa	Newlands Stadium, Cape Town	1992 Australia tour of South Africa	22 August 1992	3–26	[38]
51	Ireland	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	1992 Australia tour of Great Britain and Ireland	31 October 1992	17–42	[39]
52	Wales	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff		21 November 1992	6–23	[40]
53	Tonga	Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane	1993 Tonga tour of Australia	4 July 1993	52–14	[41]
54
55	Canada	Kingsland, Calgary	1993 Australia tour of North America and France	9 October 1993	16–43	[42]
56
57
58	Ireland	Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane	1994 Ireland tour of Australia	5 June 1994	33–13	[43]
59	Italy	Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne	1994 Italy tour of Australia	25 June 1994	20–7	[44]
60	Western Samoa	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney	1994 Western Samoa tour of Australia	6 August 1994	73–3	[45]
61	Argentina	Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane	1995 Argentina tour of Australia	30 April 1995	53–7	[46]
62		Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney		6 May 1995	30–13	[47]
63
64	Canada	Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane	1996 Canada tour of Australia	29 June 1996	74–9	[48]

Tries by opponent

International tries by opponent Opponent Matches Tries Try ratio P W D L %  Argentina 7 6 0 1 86 9 1.286  New Zealand 29 10 1 18 35 8 .276  United States 3 3 0 0 100 6 2.000  Scotland 4 4 0 0 100 6 1.500  Italy 6 6 0 0 100 6 1.000  England 8 6 0 2 75 5 .626  France 10 4 1 5 40 5 .500  Canada 3 3 0 0 100 4 1.333  Ireland 6 6 0 0 100 4 .667  Fiji 3 3 0 0 100 3 1.000  Wales 8 7 0 1 88 3 .376  Tonga 1 1 0 0 100 2 2.000  Japan 1 1 0 0 100 1 1.000  Western Samoa 2 2 0 0 100 1 .500  South Africa 7 4 0 3 57 1 .143 British & Irish Lions 3 1 0 2 33 0 .000 Total 101 67 2 32 66 64 .634 Opponent P W D L % Tries Try ratio Matches

List of hat-tricks Opponent Location Competition Date Result  United States4 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 1983 United States tour of Canada and Australia 9 July 1983 49–3  Italy Stadio Flaminio, Rome 1988 Australia tour of Great Britain and Italy 3 December 1988 6–55  Canada Kingsland, Calgary 1993 Australia tour of North America and France 9 October 1993 16–43 List of tries per year Year Caps Tries Try ratio 1982 3 2 .67 1983 7 5 .71 1984 8 4 .50 1985 2 2 1.00 1986 7 8 1.14 1987 7 4 .57 1988 8 7 .88 1989 6 2 .33 1990 6 3 .50 1991 10 9 .90 1992 8 6 .75 1993 8 5 .63 1994 6 3 .50 1995 6 3 .50 1996 9 1 .11