List of leading rugby union test try scorers

This is a list of the leading try scorers in rugby union test matches. It includes players with a minimum of 30 test tries.

Top try scorers

Updated: 19 Nov 2016

Players who are still active at international level are in bold. Players who are active in rugby union at club level, but not at international level, are in italics.

Rank	Caps	Tries	Tries per cap	Player	International team	Position	Ref
1	58	69	1.190	Daisuke Ohata	Japan	Wing	[1]
2	124	67	0.540	Bryan Habana	South Africa	Wing	[2]
3	101	64	0.634	David Campese	Australia	Wing	[3]
4	91	60	0.659	Shane Williams	Wales (58)  British and Irish Lions (2)	Wing	[4][5]
5	81	55	0.679	Hirotoki Onozawa	Japan	Wing	[6]
6	91	50	0.549	Rory Underwood	England (49)  British and Irish Lions (1)	Wing	[7]
7	62	49	0.790	Doug Howlett	New Zealand	Wing	[8]
8	141	47	0.333	Brian O'Driscoll	Ireland (46)  British and Irish Lions (1)	Centre	[9][10]
9	58	46	0.793	Christian Cullen	New Zealand	Fullback	[11]
=	68	46	0.676	Joe Rokocoko	New Zealand	Wing	[12]
11	51	45	0.882	Julian Savea	New Zealand	Wing	[13]
12	60	44	0.733	Jeff Wilson	New Zealand	Wing / Fullback	[14]
13	103	41	0.398	Gareth Thomas	Wales (40)  British and Irish Lions (1)	Utility back	[15][16]
14	78	40	0.513	Chris Latham	Australia	Fullback	[17]
15	93	38	0.409	Serge Blanco	France	Fullback	[18]
=	89	38	0.427	Joost van der Westhuizen	South Africa	Scrum-half	[19]
17	116	37	0.319	Adam Ashley-Cooper	Australia	Centre / Wing	[20]
=	63	37	0.587	Jonah Lomu	New Zealand	Wing	[21]
19	74	36	0.486	Tana Umaga	New Zealand	Wing / Centre	[22]
20	63	35	0.556	John Kirwan	New Zealand	Wing	[23]
21	67	34	0.507	Vincent Clerc	France	Wing	[24]
=	79	34	0.430	Ieuan Evans	Wales (33)  British and Irish Lions (1)	Wing	[25]
=	71	34	0.479	Drew Mitchell	Australia	Wing	[26]
=	100	34	0.340	Mils Muliaina	New Zealand	Fullback
25	54	33	0.611	Diego Ormaechea	Uruguay	Number Eight	[27]
=	48	33	0.688	Sitiveni Sivivatu	Pacific Islanders (4)  New Zealand (29)	Wing	[28][29]
27	72	32	0.444	Jaque Fourie	South Africa	Centre	[30]
=	68	32	0.471	Takashi Kikutani	Japan	Back-Row	[31]
=	69	32	0.464	Philippe Saint-André	France	Wing	[32]
30	57	31	0.544	Ben Cohen	England	Wing	[33]
=	57	31	0.544	Will Greenwood	England (31)  British and Irish Lions (0)	Centre	[34][35]
=	73	31	0.425	Jeremy Guscott	England (30)  British and Irish Lions (1)	Centre	[36]
=	103	31	0.301	Ma'a Nonu	New Zealand	Centre	[37]
=	53	31	0.585	César Sempere	Spain	Fullback	[38]
35	72	30	0.417	Tommy Bowe	Ireland (30)  British and Irish Lions (0)	Wing	[39]
=	92	30	0.326	Catalin Fercu	Romania	Fullback
=	103	30	0.291	Matt Giteau	Australia	Centre	[40]
=	80	30	0.375	Tim Horan	Australia	Centre	[41][42]
=	56	30	0.536	Jason Robinson	England (28)  British and Irish Lions (2)	Wing / Fullback	[43]
=	86	30	0.349	Joe Roff	Australia	Wing	[41]
=	111	30	0.270	Philippe Sella	France	Centre	[44]
=	67	30	0.448	Lote Tuqiri	Australia	Wing / Centre	[41]

Sources other than those already cited: .

Forwards with the most tries

Nearly all the top try scorers are backs, but some forwards have scored numerous tries. Here is a non-comprehensive list:^[45]

• Diego Ormaechea,  Uruguay - 33 tries in 54 tests (1989–1999)
• Takashi Kikutani,  Japan - 32 tries in 68 tests (2005-2014)
• Richie McCaw,  New Zealand - 27 tries in 148 tests (2001-2015)
• Mamuka Gorgodze,  Georgia - 26 tries in 68 tests (2003-)
• Colin Charvis,  Wales and British and Irish Lions - 22 tries in 96 tests (1996–2007)
• Ryu Holani,  Japan - 22 tries in 44 tests (2008-)
• Carlo Checchinato,  Italy - 21 tries in 83 tests (1990–2004)
• Kieran Read,  New Zealand - 21 tries in 96 tests (2008-)
• Victor Gresev,  Russia - 18 tries in 84 tests (2006)
• Rolando Martin,  Argentina - 18 tries in 86 tests (1994–2003)
• Neil Back,  England and British and Irish Lions - 17 tries in 71 tests (1994–2005)
• Zinzan Brooke,  New Zealand - 17 tries in 58 tests (1987–1997)
• Lawrence Dallaglio,  England and British and Irish Lions - 17 tries in 88 tests (1995–2007)
• Viacheslav Grachev,  Russia - 17 tries in 71 tests (1993–2011)
• Semo Sititi,  Samoa - 17 tries in 63 tests (1999–2009)
• Schalk Burger,  South Africa - 16 tries in 86 tests (2003–2015)
• Aaron Carpenter,  Canada - 16 tries in 75 tests (2005-)
• Ian Kirkpatrick,  New Zealand - 16 tries in 39 tests (1967–1977)
• Hendrik Tui,  Japan - 16 tries in 38 tests (2012-)
• Mauro Bergamasco,  Italy - 15 tries in 106 tests (1998-2015)
• Mihai Macovei,  Romania - 15 tries in 69 tests (2006-)
• Ovidiu Tonita,  Romania - 15 tries in 73 tests (2000-)
• Keith Wood,  Ireland and British and Irish Lions - 15 tries in 64 tests (1994–2003)

Notes

• ^a Sources differ as to the number of tries scored by Núñez Piossek. His national federation, the Argentine Rugby Union (UAR), credits him with 30 tries in 28 Tests. Scrum.com credits him with 29 tries in 28 Tests.^[46] For the Pumas' Test against Chile on 25 April 2004 the UAR credits him with 3 tries^[47] while Scrum.com credits him with only two.^[46] Núñez Piossek also scored one try against the British and Irish Lions in 2005, but the UAR did not award test caps for this game, unlike the Home Unions.

See also

• List of leading Rugby union Test point scorers
• List of leading Rugby union drop goal scorers
• List of rugby union Test caps leaders
• List of top England international rugby union points scorers and try scorers

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External links

• Scrum.com