The 2025 Six Nations will see the 20-minute red card trialled for the first time in the competition as the sport’s authorities try to improve the spectacle for fans and simplify key areas of the game.

DUBLIN — Rugby might be headed toward having 20-minute red cards. The sport’s global governing body will set up a working group to explore whether a player who has been sent off can be replaced by ...

Dragons lock Levi Douglas free to play after his United Rugby Championship 20-minute red card against Benetton was rescinded.

The 20-minute red card, one of the most hotly debated topics in rugby, moved forward this week after World Rugby’s Council announced that the system was here to stay for the foreseeable future. After ...

The first rugby red card was shown at the 1987 Rugby World Cup to Huw Jones and the first yellow card was given to Simon Geoghegan in the 1995 Five Nations. And while rugby has been transported ...

Edinburgh replacement hooker Harri Morris should have received a straight red card for a horrible lapse of judgment involving ...

DUBLIN — World Rugby has postponed a decision on the future of 20-minute red cards which are being trialled in the ongoing autumn rugby tests. Referees have the option to use the temporary red cards ...