The Overseas Unions rugby union team was set up to commemorate the centenary of the International Rugby Football Board

International Rugby Board

The International Rugby Board is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. It was founded in 1886 as the International Rugby Football Board by the unions of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. England refused to join until 1890. The International Rugby Football Board changed its name to the...

 (IRFB), which would shortly afterwards become the IRB or International Rugby Board. It consisted of players from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

They played one match against a combined Five Nations XV on Saturday, 19 April 1986 , and beat them 32-15.

Players

Roger GouldJohn KirwanDanie Gerber

Danie Gerber

Danie Gerber is a former South African rugby union player, who played for South Africa between 1980 and 1992. Playing mainly at centre, he won only 24 caps for South Africa despite playing internationally for 12 years because of South Africa's sporting isolation caused by apartheid...

Warwick TaylorCarel du Plessis

Carel du Plessis

Carel Johan du Plessis is a former South African rugby union coach and player.-Playing career:Du Plessis played for Western Province and the Springboks, his skills earning him the nickname the Prince of Wings...

Naas BothaDave Loveridge

Dave Loveridge

David Steven “Trapper” Loveridge was an All Black great of the late 1970s and early 1980s, known in his time as the greatest halfback in the world .-Life & Career:...

Steve Tuynman

Steve Tuynman

Steve Tuynman , is a former Australian rugby union player. He played in 34 tests for the Wallabies between 1983 and 1990.-References:...

Simon Poidevin

Simon Poidevin

Simon Paul Poidevin OAM is a former Australian rugby union player.-Rugby union career:Born in Goulburn, New South Wales, Poidevin played rugby at St Patrick's College in New South Wales, and made the Australian Schoolboy side...

Mark ShawAndy Haden

Andy Haden

Andrew Maxwell Haden is a former New Zealand rugby union player, who was a lock-forward for Auckland and New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s.-Life and career:...

Steve Cutler

Steve Cutler

Steve Cutler is an Australian former state and national representative rugby union player who represented Australia in 40 test matches between 1982 and 1991. He is a former Senior vice president and Chief operating officer of Kendle International, an international contract research organization...

Gary Knight (van der Merwe had been named in starting line-up in programme instead of Knight)Andy Dalton

Andy Dalton

Andrew Grant Dalton is an ex-All Blacks rugby union player who captained the side 17 times in tests...

 (Captain)Topo Rodriguez

• Bench

}Andrew Slack

Andrew Slack

Andrew Gerard Slack is an Australian former state and national representative rugby union player who captained the Wallabies in 19 Test matches in between 1984 and 1987...

 (not named in programme, but Wayne Smith

Wayne Smith (rugby player)

Wayne Ross Smith is a former rugby union footballer, and currently a rugby union coach. He is currently the backs coach for New Zealand's national rugby union team the All Blacks. He played provincial rugby for Canterbury and became an All Black in 1980. He played first five-eighth, gaining 35...

 of New Zealand was)
}Michael Lynagh

Michael Lynagh

Michael Lynagh is a former Australian rugby union footballer who played as a Fly-half.Lynagh represented Australia from 1984 to 1995, playing at both inside centre and fly half. Lynagh was capped 72 times for Australia, and was captain from 1993 to 1995. He was the world points scoring record...

}Nick Farr-Jones

Nick Farr-Jones

Nicholas Campbell Farr-Jones is a former Australian rugby union footballer. His position was scrum-half. He attended Newington College and St Andrew's College within the University of Sydney...

}Murray Mexted

Murray Mexted

Murray Graham Mexted is a New Zealand rugby union player who played 34 tests for the All Blacks from 1979 to 1983. He also played 38 non-test game including 7 as captain. During his time with the All Blacks, he wore the Number eight jersey and was considered an excellent ball winner and an...

}Schalk Burger snr
}Flippie van der Merwe (named in starting line-up in programme instead of Knight)
}Tom Lawton

The match

Unlike the first celebratory match 3 days earlier in a wet Cardiff Arms Park

Cardiff Arms Park

Cardiff Arms Park , also known as The Arms Park, is primarily known as a rugby union stadium, but it also has a bowling green, and is situated in the centre of Cardiff, Wales. The Arms Park was host to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958, and hosted four games in the 1991 Rugby World...

, this game was played in ideal conditions at Twickenham. At the time, there were only eight Unions affiliated to the Board, thus only players from those unions were chosen.
Five Nations: Serge Blanco

Serge Blanco

Serge Blanco is a former rugby union footballer who played fullback for Biarritz Olympique and the French national side, gaining 93 caps, 81 of them at fullback. His alternative position was wing....

 ; Trevor Ringland

Trevor Ringland

Trevor Maxwell Ringland, MBE is a solicitor, former rugby union winger and Unionist politician. After attending Larne Grammar School Ringland studied law at Queen's University Belfast.-Rugby career:...

 , Philippe Sella

Philippe Sella

Philippe Sella is a French former rugby union player, who held the record for most international appearances until beaten by Jason Leonard. He became a member of the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 1999, and the IRB Hall of Fame in 2008.Sella joined Saracens in 1996 from French side Agen...

 , Mike Kiernan

Mike Kiernan

Michael Joseph Kiernan is a former international rugby union player. In 1983 he toured New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions and a the time played club rugby for Dolphin RFC. His uncle, Tom Kiernan, was also an Irish rugby union international.-References:...

 , Rory Underwood

Rory Underwood

Rory Underwood MBE is a former English rugby union footballer who played wing for, most notably, Leicester Tigers and Bedford. He represented England and the British Lions and is a former Royal Air Force pilot....

 ; Malcolm Dacey

Malcolm Dacey

Malcolm Dacey is a former Wales international rugby union player who attained 15 international caps. An outside-half, he played club rugby for Swansea RFC....

 , Richard Hill

Richard Hill (scrum-half)

Richard Hill , is rugby union coach and former English international rugby footballer.-Biography:Born in Birmingham, Hill was educated at Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School in Salisbury, and Exeter University...

 ; Jeff Whitefoot

Jeff Whitefoot (rugby player)

Jeffrey Whitefoot born 18 April 1956, Bedwas, near Caerphilly, Monmouthshire is a former Wales international rugby union player. Whitefoot played his club rugby for Bedwas and Cardiff and attained 19 international caps. He also made an appearance for the British and Irish Lions against an Overseas...

 , Steve Brain

Steve Brain

Steve Brain is a retired rugby union player who played hooker for Coventry R.F.C. and represented England in over a dozen international matches, including three Five Nations, now the Six Nations Championship, between 1984 and 1986....

 , Iain Milne

Iain Milne

Iain Milne is a former rugby union footballer. His nickname is "The Bear" in view of his physical size and strength....

 , Jean Condom , Donal Lenihan

Donal Lenihan

Donal Gerard Lenihan is a retired Irish rugby union player with 52 international caps.- Biography:Donal was raised in a sporting background. His father, Gerald Lenihan, was an All-Ireland heavyweight boxing champion and Gaelic footballer of distinction, and played in the same team as Jack Lynch...

  (captain), John Jeffrey

John Jeffrey

John Jeffrey is a Scottish former internationalistrugby union player. His nicknames are "The Great White Shark" and "JJ", the former because of his blond "thatch of hair"....

 , Iain Paxton

Iain Paxton

Iain Angus McLeod Paxton is a Scottish rugby union player who won 36 caps at number eight and lock between 1981 and 1988, scoring a total of five tries. He made his debut against New Zealand All Blacks on the 1981 tour and later that year he helped Scotland to a memorable 24-15 win over Australia...

 , Laurent Rodriguez

Overseas Unions: R G Gould ; J J Kirwan , D M Gerber

Danie Gerber

Danie Gerber is a former South African rugby union player, who played for South Africa between 1980 and 1992. Playing mainly at centre, he won only 24 caps for South Africa despite playing internationally for 12 years because of South Africa's sporting isolation caused by apartheid...

 , W T Taylor , C J du Plessis

Carel du Plessis

Carel Johan du Plessis is a former South African rugby union coach and player.-Playing career:Du Plessis played for Western Province and the Springboks, his skills earning him the nickname the Prince of Wings...

 ; H E Botha , D S Loveridge

Dave Loveridge

David Steven “Trapper” Loveridge was an All Black great of the late 1970s and early 1980s, known in his time as the greatest halfback in the world .-Life & Career:...

 ; E E Rodriguez , A G Dalton

Andy Dalton

Andrew Grant Dalton is an ex-All Blacks rugby union player who captained the side 17 times in tests...

  (captain), P R van der Merwe , SAG Cutler

Steve Cutler

Steve Cutler is an Australian former state and national representative rugby union player who represented Australia in 40 test matches between 1982 and 1991. He is a former Senior vice president and Chief operating officer of Kendle International, an international contract research organization...

 , A M Haden

Andy Haden

Andrew Maxwell Haden is a former New Zealand rugby union player, who was a lock-forward for Auckland and New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s.-Life and career:...

 , S P Poidevin

Simon Poidevin

Simon Paul Poidevin OAM is a former Australian rugby union player.-Rugby union career:Born in Goulburn, New South Wales, Poidevin played rugby at St Patrick's College in New South Wales, and made the Australian Schoolboy side...

 , S N Tuynman

Steve Tuynman

Steve Tuynman , is a former Australian rugby union player. He played in 34 tests for the Wallabies between 1983 and 1990.-References:...

 , M W Shaw 

See also

• World XV
  World XV
  A World XV is a rugby union team, typically composed of invited players from various countries. Various World XVs have been arranged from time to time, often to take part in celebration and testimonial games, usually against national teams; recent World XV games have generally not been considered...
  
  
• Rest of the World XV
  Rest of the World XV
  The Rest of the World XV was a rugby union team selected to play one match against the British Lions, and was set up to commemorate the centenary of the International Rugby Football Board , which would shortly afterwards become the IRB or International Rugby Board...
  
  
• President's Overseas XV
  President's Overseas XV
  The President's Overseas XV was a 1971 rugby union squad, chosen to celebrate the centenary of the English Rugby Football Union, the oldest national rugby organisation in existence....
  
  
• Four Home Unions XV
• Rest of Europe XV