List of rugby union players with the most international matches

The following list shows the rugby union players with the most international matches . This includes games for the respective national team as well as for the selection team of the British and Irish Lions . Mention is made of players with at least 100 international matches. Players who are still actively playing for their country are marked in bold .

As of July 31, 2020

#	Games	Surname	team	Years
01.	148	Richie McCaw	New Zealand	2001-2015
02.	147	Alun Wyn Jones	Wales (138) British and Irish Lions (9)	2006–2009 , 2013, 2017
03.	142	Sergio Parisse	Italy	2002–
04th	141	Brian O'Driscoll	Ireland (128) British and Irish Lions (8)	1999–2014 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013
05.	139	George Gregan	Australia	1994-2007
06th	134	Gethin Jenkins	Wales (129) British and Irish Lions (5)	2002–2016 2005, 2009
07th	132	Keven Mealamu	New Zealand	2002-2015
08th.	130	Ronan O'Gara	Ireland (128) British and Irish Lions (2)	2000–2013 2005, 2009
09.	129	Stephen Moore	Australia	2005-2017
10.	127	Victor Matfield	South Africa	2001-2015
		Kieran Read	New Zealand	2008-2019
12.	124	Rory Best	Ireland	2005-2019
		Bryan Habana	South Africa	2004-2016
		Florin Vlaicu	Romania	2006–
15th	122	Dawit Kacharava	Georgia	2006–
16.	121	Adam Ashley-Cooper	Australia	2002–
17th	119	Martin Castrogiovanni	Italy	2002-2016
		Jason Leonard	England (114) British and Irish Lions (5)	1990-2004 1993, 1997, 2001
		Alessandro Zanni	Italy	2005–
20th	118	Fabien Pelous	France	1995-2007
		Tony Woodcock	New Zealand	2002-2015
22nd	117	Tendai Mtawarira	South Africa	2008-2019
		Sam Whitelock	New Zealand	2010–
24.	116	Nathan Sharpe	Australia	2002–2012
25th	115	Yuri Kuschnaryov	Russia	2005–
		Merab Kvirikashvili	Georgia	2003-2018
		Paul O'Connell	Ireland (108) British and Irish Lions (7)	2002–2015 2005, 2009, 2013
28.	112	Marco Bortolami	Italy	2001-2015
		Daniel Carter	New Zealand	2003-2015
30th	111	Ross Ford	Scotland (110) British and Irish Lions (1)	2004-2017 2009
		Philippe Sella	France	1982-1995
		John Smit	South Africa	2000-2011
		George Smith	Australia	2000-2013
34.	110	Want Genia	Australia	2009–
		Stephen Jones	Wales (104) British and Irish Lions (6)	1998–2011 2005, 2009
		Sekope Kepu	Australia	2008-2019
37.	109	Jean de Villiers	South Africa 109	1998-2015
		Cătălin Fercu	Romania	2005–
		Chris Paterson	Scotland	1999-2011
40.	108	Owen Franks	New Zealand	2009–
41.	107	John Hayes	Ireland (105) British and Irish Lions (2)	2000–2011 2005, 2009
42.	106	Mauro Bergamasco	Italy	1998-2015
43.	105	Sean Lamont	Scotland	2004-2016
44.	104	Leonardo Ghiraldini	Italy	2006-2019
		Martyn Williams	Wales (100) British and Irish Lions (4)	1996–2012 2001, 2005, 2009
46.	103	Matt Giteau	Australia	2002-2016
		Andrea Lo Cicero	Italy	2000-2013
		Ma'a Nonu	New Zealand	2000-2015
		Gareth Thomas	Wales (100) British and Irish Lions (3)	1995-2007 2005
49.	102	Stephen Larkham	Australia	1996-2007
		Percy Montgomery	South Africa	1997-2008
51.	101	David Campese	Australia	1982-1996
		Alessandro Troncon	Italy	1994-2007
		Giorgi Tschchaidze	Georgia	2002–
		Gonçalo Uva	Portugal	2004-2018
		Vasco Uva	Portugal	2003-2016
56.	100	Valentin Calafeteanu	Romania	2004–
		Jamie Heaslip	Ireland (95) British and Irish Lions (5)	2006–2017 2009, 2013
		Adam Rhys Jones	Wales (95) British and Irish Lions (5)	2002-2014
		Rob Simmons	Australia	2010–
		Mils Muliaina	New Zealand	2003-2011

Web links

• Statistics on scrum.com

See also

• List of rugby union players with the most international match points
• List of rugby union players with the most international attempts