Canada Cup 1996

Canada Cup 1996
1996-09-08 - 1996-09-14
Host nation	Canada
No. of nations	4
Champions	New Zealand
Runner-up	United States
Matches played	6

The second Canada Cup took place in Edmonton and featured New Zealand and France for the first time ever, as well as the USA and the hosts. New Zealand had missed the previous World Cup in 1994 and, aside from a couple of games against an untried Australia, had played no international rugby since 1991, when they had lost to the USA in the World Cup semi-finals. What would they be like after a five year lay-off? Up against three of the four leading nations it would be a real test...

In practice New Zealand were devastating...

Final table

Position	Nation	Games				Points		Table points
		played	won	drawn	lost	for	against
1	New Zealand	3	3	0	0	283	11	6
2	United States	3	2	0	1	69	116	4
3	Canada	3	1	0	2	51	113	2
4	France	3	0	0	3	19	182	0

Results

[153]
	1996-09-08	Canada	3-88	New Zealand	Edmonton	[15/11/2]

[154]
	1996-09-08	France	16-39	United States	Edmonton	[36/20/1]

[155]
	1996-09-11	New Zealand	88-8	United States	Edmonton	[12/21/3]

[156]
	1996-09-11	Canada	34-3	France	Edmonton	[16/37/1]

[157]
	1996-09-14	France	0-109	New Zealand	Edmonton	[38/13/1]

[158]
	1996-09-14	Canada	14-22	United States	Edmonton	[17/22/6]

See also

• Women's international rugby - includes all women's international match results
• Churchill Cup

Preceded by Canada Cup 1993	Canada Cup 1996  New Zealand	Succeeded by Canada Cup 2000