In Rugby the scrum is made up of eight forwrds from each team so a total of 16 players are involved in a full scrum.
15 players plus subs in union and 13 plus subs in league per side
A team consists of 15 starting a match with 7 reserves. Total 23 players
A rugby team typically has 15 players on the field at a time: 8 forwards and 7 backs. Each team can have up to 23 players in total, including substitutes.
15 each side plus 5 subs allowed for each side 30 on the pitch at anyone time with a total of 10 subs between both teams.
Senior Male Player: 27374 Senior Female Player: 914 total registered clubs 562
the total teams is 103 registered with World Rugby (as of 2017)
In the union code 15 players on each team (plus substitutes). This totals no more than thirty players on the field at any point during the game from both side. If there are more than 15 players from one team on the field, it is a penalty. In the League code there are 13 players plus subs for each team. No more than 26 may be on the field at anyone time. In this code the wing fowards (flankers) are not used. In a severns team as the name infers only 7 a side for each team may be on the fieled of play at anyone time.
OK, if you look at Males only and exlcude rugby league, which has a further 22,000 players but the detailed stats are not available, you can make the following estimations. Population of new zealand is approx 4.2million, of whom approx 129,000 pre-teen, teen and adult males are registered with the NZRFU as rugby players - i.e. 3.1% of the total population. The NZRFU recognises the U-7 age group, so if we these 129,000 players are all aged 7 - 40 years, this means they are drawn from about 870,000 people according to the 2006 NZ census. So as a proportion of male population aged 7 - 40 about 129,000 out of 870,000, or 15% play rugby. You can make some assumptions and chuck in the 22,000 who play Rugby League and the aggregate League/ Union figure rises to more like 17%. In reality, there is probably a big player number drop off after the age of 30, when guys start getting families, not to mention sore, so can't spend their saturdays playing. This would increase the percentage further, so it could be as high as 20% of males aged 7 - 30 in NZ play rugby.
Association football, soccer, there are 11 players a side. Rugby football; rugby union has 15 a side, rugby league has 13. Australian football, Aussie Rules, has 18 a side. Gaelic football has 15 a side. American football has 11 a side. Canadian football has 12 a side. Winchester football has either 6, 10, or 15 a side.
1 - the "Front Row" consisting tighthead prop; hooker; Loosehead prop [3]2 - the "middle row" consisting openside flanker; lock; lock; blindside flanker [4]3 - the "back row" consisting of the "Number 8" forward [1]so a total of [8] in a scrum.
There are a total of 12 players in a rugby (union) sevens Team, with seven on the pitch at any one time and 5 as reserves. The squad numbers are variable as in the 15 a side version. Squad sizes are down to the RFU of the country playing. They may ONLY name 12 for a game from the squad.