The Australia rugby team enjoys the fourth position in International Rugby Board world ranking in the year 2006-07. The 1991 and 1999 Rugby World Cup champions are all set to bring home the rugby world cup trophy for the third time.
The finalists of the 2003 Rugby World Cup were also the semi-finalists of Rugby World Cup 1987. The team also entered the quarterfinals in the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
This Australian rugby team won 24 matches out of the 29 rugby matches played scoring 987 points. Nicknamed as Wallabies, the rugby team has participated in international rugby union competitions, including the Rugby World Cup and the Tri Nations.
They enter the field wearing Gold and green colored jersey, green shorts and gold and green colored socks with an emblem of the Wallaby on it. Led by head coach John Connolly, the team started playing the first international rugby match in 1899.
Australia has made its appeared in all Rugby World Cup tournaments since the first tournament in 1987. They are considered as the most successful nation at the World Cup. It is the only nation to have won the Webb Ellis Cup more than once. In the 1991 Rugby World Cup, Australia won the finals defeating England. They defeated France to win the world cup for the second time.
Australia rugby team that belongs to Pool B category along with Wales, Fiji, Canada and Japan, are appearing for the rugby world cup for the sixth time this year.
