England national rugby union team

England Rugby is the name of the English national rugby union team. They are the current World champions, having won the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship and have won that championship and its predecessors more times than any other nation. England has also won the most Grand Slams. England Rugby is governed by the RFU.

Captains

List of principal captains (others who have captained the side when these were injured are in parenthesis).

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• Wavell Wakefield
• Dr Ronald Cove-Smith, Captain in 29 Internationals
• Bill Beaumont
• Paul Dodge (Richard Hill)
• Peter Winterbottom
• Will Carling
• Phil de Glanville (Jason Leonard)
• Lawrence Dallaglio (Matt Dawson, Martin Johnson, Tony Diprose)
• Martin Johnson (Neil Back, Matt Dawson, Phil Vickery, Jonny Wilkinson)
• Lawrence Dallaglio
• Jonny Wilkinson (Jason Robinson, Martin Corry)