Rugby
Live Scores

LivePlayScore brings you rugby live scores from the Six Nations, the Rugby Championship, the top club leagues, rugby league and sevens, updated as every point goes on the board. Tries, conversions, penalties, cards and the match clock appear on this page as they happen. It's free, and you don't need an account.

Rugby weekends are packed. A Friday night URC match, Saturday afternoon in the Premiership and Top 14, and Super Rugby from the other side of the world, all in the same weekend. Add a Six Nations Saturday and it's almost impossible to watch everything. This page is built for that: open it, find your match, and you know exactly where it stands.

Each live match shows both teams, the score, the half and the match clock. The half-time score stays visible after the break, so you can see how the game has changed since the restart.

Tap any match for more detail:

• Scoring timeline: every try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal, with the minute it happened and, where available, the scorer.
• Cards: yellow and red cards, which leave a team a player down.
• Team stats: tries, possession, territory, tackles made and missed, and penalties conceded, where available.
• Bonus points: in league matches, whether either side has earned a try bonus or a losing bonus.

If you only need the result, the scoreboard gives you that. If you want to know how your team lost a 14-point lead, the timeline usually explains it, and a yellow card or a run of penalties is often the reason.

If you're newer to rugby, the scoreboard makes more sense once you know how points are scored. In rugby union:

• Try: 5 points, for grounding the ball over the opponent's try line.
• Conversion: 2 points, the kick at goal after a try.
• Penalty goal: 3 points, a kick at goal after the other team concedes a penalty.
• Drop goal: 3 points, kicked from open play.
• Penalty try: 7 points, awarded when foul play stops a try that would probably have been scored.

A match is 80 minutes, split into two halves of 40 minutes, with 15 players on each side. A yellow card sends a player to the sin bin for 10 minutes. A red card removes a player for the rest of the match, though some competitions now let a replacement come on after 20 minutes for certain red cards.

In most leagues, a win is worth 4 points and a draw 2. Teams can also earn a bonus point for scoring four or more tries, and a losing bonus point for losing by seven points or fewer. That's why late tries can matter even when the result is settled.

Rugby league is different. Teams have 13 players, a try is worth 4 points, a conversion 2, a penalty goal 2 and a field goal 1.

International rugby union. The Six Nations, the Rugby Championship, the July and November international windows, and the Rugby World Cup, which heads to Australia in 2027.

Club rugby union. The Premiership in England, the Top 14 in France, the United Rugby Championship, Super Rugby Pacific and Japan's League One. We also follow the Investec Champions Cup and the Challenge Cup, the top European club competitions.

Rugby league. The NRL, State of Origin and Super League, along with international rugby league.

Sevens. The HSBC SVNS Series and Olympic rugby sevens, where matches are short, fast and full of tries.

For all fixtures, results and tournament pages in one place, visit our rugby fixtures and results hub.

Our scores come from a professional real-time rugby data feed, the kind used by broadcasters and sports apps. The page updates by itself during matches, so you don't need to keep refreshing.

A few situations can make a score look odd for a moment. Here's how we handle them:

• TMO reviews. The television match official often checks tries for knock-ons, forward passes or foul play in the build-up. A try only goes on the board once it's confirmed. If it's ruled out, the score stays as it was.
• Cards under review. Some serious foul play goes to a review while the player is in the sin bin, and the card can be upgraded to red. We update the card once the final decision is made.
• Postponements. Weather and pitch problems do happen. Postponed and abandoned matches are clearly marked rather than just disappearing from the list.

If you ever see a score that doesn't match what's on TV, let us know through our contact page. Reader reports have helped us catch mistakes, and we'd rather fix them fast.

If you're checking in partway through, a few details tell you most of the story:

The margin in scores. A lead of seven or fewer is within one converted try. A lead of 15 or more needs at least three scores to close.

Cards. A team down to 14 players for ten minutes often concedes points. Check the score before and after a yellow card.

Tries vs penalties. A team scoring tries is breaking the defence. A team relying on penalty goals is winning through pressure and discipline, but it can be caught late.

Bonus-point chase. In league matches, a team on three tries in the last ten minutes may keep attacking even with the win secured, because that fourth try is worth an extra point.