Rugby union in Kazakhstan is a fairly popular sport.
As of May 2018, they are ranked 61st by World Rugby, and as of June 2009, they had 2335 registered players and twenty clubs.
[2] Kazakhstan had its own rugby team in the USSR, but it was not treated as a proper national side.
The Kazakhstan women's national rugby union team played their first international against Germany in 1993, which they lost by one point, 11-10.
The female team also takes part in the ARFU Women's Rugby Championship.