Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe national rugby union team

The Zimbabwe national rugby union team is the rugby union team representing Zimbabwe. They are considered to be a third tier rugby union nation...

have made two Rugby World Cup

Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board and held every four years since 1987....

appearances - in 1987 and 1991.

In the 1987 Rugby World Cup

1987 Rugby World Cup

The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the first Rugby World Cup. New Zealand and Australia agreed to co-host the first ever tournament with New Zealand hosting seventeen pool stage matches, two quarter-finals and the final with Australia being the junior partner hosting seven pool matches, two...

, Zimbabwe were invited as the African entrant. No other African countries were invited, as South Africa

South Africa national rugby union team

The South African national rugby union team are 2009 British and Irish Lions Series winners. They are currently ranked as the fourth best team in the IRB World Rankings and were named 2008 World Team of the Year at the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards.Although South Africa was instrumental...

 was disqualified from the tournament on the basis of the continuing racist apartheid regime.

However, Zimbabwe succeeded in getting through 1991 Rugby World Cup qualifying

1991 Rugby World Cup qualifying

For the 1991 Rugby World Cup, 16 nations participated in the finals tournament, half of which came through qualifying matches, and the other were granted automatic entry as they were quarter-finalists at the 1987 Rugby World Cup...

, and hosted the Africa qualifications

1991 Rugby World Cup - Africa qualification

For the 1991 Rugby World Cup, there was one African position available. Eventually Zimbabwe would qualify through to the finals tournament. All matches were played in Harare, Zimbabwe in May, 1990-Overview:Final Standings...

. In more recent years, Namibia

Namibia national rugby union team

The Namibian rugby union team, nicknamed the Welwitschias or Biltongboere, represents Namibia at rugby union. Although they are a tier-three nation in the International Rugby Board tier system, the team have participated in all three Rugby World Cup competitions since their first appearance in 1999...

 has tended to beat them in African qualifying.

Nation	Number of appearances	First appearance	Most recent appearance	Streak	Best result
	2	1987	1991	2	No games won

By position

• 1987 Rugby World Cup
  1987 Rugby World Cup
  The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the first Rugby World Cup. New Zealand and Australia agreed to co-host the first ever tournament with New Zealand hosting seventeen pool stage matches, two quarter-finals and the final with Australia being the junior partner hosting seven pool matches, two...
  
   Eliminated in pool stages
• 1991 Rugby World Cup
  1991 Rugby World Cup
  The 1991 Rugby World Cup was the second edition of the Rugby World Cup, and was jointly hosted by England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France; at that time, the five European countries that participated in the Five Nations Championship making it the first Rugby World Cup to be staged in the...
  
   Eliminated in pool stages
• 1995 Rugby World Cup
  1995 Rugby World Cup
  The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup. It was hosted and won by South Africa, and was the first Rugby World Cup in which every match was held in one country....
  
   Did not qualify.
• 1999 Rugby World Cup
  1999 Rugby World Cup
  The 1999 Rugby World Cup was the fourth Rugby World Cup, and the first to be held in rugby union's professional era. The principal host nation was Wales, although the majority of matches were played outside the country, shared between England, France, Scotland and Ireland...
  
   Did not qualify.
• 2003 Rugby World Cup
  2003 Rugby World Cup
  The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth Rugby World Cup and was won by England. Originally planned to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, all games were shifted to Australia following a contractual dispute over ground signage rights between the New Zealand Rugby Football Union and Rugby World...
  
   Did not qualify.
• 2007 Rugby World Cup
  2007 Rugby World Cup
  The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 20 October. France won the hosting rights in 2003,...
  
   Did not qualify.
• 2011 Rugby World Cup
  2011 Rugby World Cup
  The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in Dublin on 17 November 2005...
  
   Did not qualify.

1987 Rugby World Cup

1987 Rugby World Cup

The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the first Rugby World Cup. New Zealand and Australia agreed to co-host the first ever tournament with New Zealand hosting seventeen pool stage matches, two quarter-finals and the final with Australia being the junior partner hosting seven pool matches, two...

Pool 4 games -

Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
	3	2	1	0	145	44	5
	3	2	1	0	135	69	5
	3	1	0	2	61	130	2
	3	0	0	3	53	151	0

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1991 Rugby World Cup

1991 Rugby World Cup

The 1991 Rugby World Cup was the second edition of the Rugby World Cup, and was jointly hosted by England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France; at that time, the five European countries that participated in the Five Nations Championship making it the first Rugby World Cup to be staged in the...

Pool B games -

Team	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Points
	3	0	0	122	36	9
	2	0	1	102	51	7
	1	0	2	77	87	5
	0	0	3	31	158	3

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Overall record

Country	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	%
	1	0	0	1	20	21	−1	0
	1	0	0	1	11	55	−44	0
	1	0	0	1	8	52	−44	0
	1	0	0	1	12	70	−58	0
	2	0	0	2	33	113	−80	0
TOTAL	6	0	0	6	105	373	−268	0