This yearbook is a comprehensive review of events in rugby union over the past season and beyond. It focuses on international rugby but with a full coverage of domestic club rugby. This first edition includes: feature articles on the key issues in the game over the past year; a Rugby World Cup preview - full qualifying fixtures and results leading up to the 2002/03 tournament, plus a review of the 1999 World Cup; all the facts and figures from the major international competitions, from the Six Nations at home and Tri-Nations down under to the Lions tour of Australia and the inaugural World Sevens tournament; results from domestic club rugby; and full programme of fixtures for 2001/2002.