[1] The Rugby Union of Serbia (Рагби Савез Србије) is the national governing body for the sport.

[3] The first known Serbian rugby players were students at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, Scotland during the First World War.

On March 8, 1918, they played the first unofficial international game against students from a British Colonies and won by eight points to three in front of 10,000 spectators.

Notable players were Toma Tomic from Leskovac, Dimitrije Dulkanovic from Cuprija and Danilo Pavlovic from Prokuplje.

The Yugoslavia national rugby union team played its first international in July 1968 against a Romanian XV, losing 3 points to 11.

When the Yugoslav team reformed in 1996, it consisted of players from Serbia only and they played their first international against Andorra at Vršac in May of that year.

The first official international match played by the Serbia national rugby union team was in October 2006.