List of Rugby World Cup red cards
Red cards

List of Rugby World Cup red cards

Section Title: Red cards
Table Section Text: None

No.	Player	Position	For	Against	Result	Time	Date	Ref.

1	Huw Richards	Lock	Wales	New Zealand	6–49	77'	14 June 1987

2	David Codey	Flanker	Australia	Wales	21–22	5'	18 June 1987

3	Pedro Sporleder	Lock	Argentina	Samoa	12–35	?'	13 October 1991

4	Matt Keenan	Lock	Samoa	Argentina	35–12	?'	13 October 1991

5	Feleti Mahoni	Flanker	Tonga	France	10–38	68'	26 May 1995

6	Gareth Rees	Fly-half (captain)	Canada	South Africa	0–20	70'	3 June 1995

7	Rod Snow	Prop	Canada	South Africa	0–20	70'	3 June 1995

8	James Dalton	Hooker	South Africa	Canada	20–0	70'	3 June 1995

9	Marika Vunibaka	Wing	Fiji	Canada	38–22	80'+	9 October 1999

10	Dan Baugh	Flanker	Canada	Namibia	72–11	48'	14 October 1999

11	Ngalu Taufo'ou	Prop	Tonga	England	10–101	35'	15 October 1999

12	Brendan Venter	Centre	South Africa	Uruguay	39–3	40'	15 October 1999

13	Hale T-Pole	Flanker	Tonga	Samoa	19–15	71'	16 September 2007

14	Jacques Nieuwenhuis	Number 8	Namibia	France	10–87	19'	16 September 2007

15	Paul Williams	Fullback	Samoa	South Africa	5–13	70'	30 September 2011

16	Sam Warburton	Flanker (captain)	Wales	France	8–9	17'	15 October 2011

17	Agustín Ormaechea	Scrum Half	Uruguay	Fiji	15–47	66'	6 October 2015

Sentence(s)

Huw Richards played in the 1987 Rugby World Cup as a lock and became the first player to receive a red card in a Rugby World Cup tournament.

final_sentence: Huw Richards played in the 1987 Rugby World Cup as a lock and became the first player to receive a red card in a Rugby World Cup tournament.