Rugby Union, also known as rugby union in English-speaking countries, is played by teams of fifteen players in the field with substitutes.
is the most popular variant of rugby, a family of team sports, whose specificities are the scrums and the keys, two teams competing for an oval ball, played by hand and foot. The objective of the game is to score more points than the opponent, either by trials, or penalty goals or test changes, or drops (kicks in the course of the game).