Editing Shutout (section)

==Rugby==
Clean sheets are not common in either [[rugby union]] or [[rugby league|league]], since it is relatively simple to score a penalty kick. The 2005 Gillette [[2005 Rugby League Tri-Nations#Final 2|Rugby League Tri-Nations]] final was the first time that [[Australian national rugby league team|Australia]] had been "nilled" since 1981.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} There is no alternative term for the occurrence of a team failing to score, except to say that the team scored "nil" (or "zero" or "nothing" in North America). For example, the December 2006 [[Pro14|Celtic League]] match between [[Munster Rugby|Munster]] and [[Connacht Rugby|Connacht]] ended 13–0 to Munster;<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/my_club/munster/6204514.stm | work=BBC News | title=Munster 13–0 Connacht | date=December 3, 2006 | access-date=March 26, 2010}}</ref> it was, therefore, said that Munster won "thirteen–nil."

Recent examples of clean sheets in international rugby union include England vs Scotland in [[2014 Six Nations Championship|2014]], France vs Italy in [[2015 Six Nations Championship|2015]], France vs Argentina in [[2016 June rugby union tests|2016]], Scotland vs Italy in [[2017 Six Nations Championship|2017]], New Zealand vs South Africa in [[2017 Rugby Championship|2017]], New Zealand vs Australia in [[2019 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches|2019]], and Wales vs Italy in [[2020 Six Nations Championship|2020]].

Generally, a team that is well-disciplined defensively, as well as behaviorally (not giving away penalty kicks), is most likely to not concede scores. This may also occur if there is a significant difference in class between the two teams, for example, when [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]] beat [[Spain national rugby union team|Spain]] (who were playing in their only Rugby World Cup) 48–0 in the [[1999 Rugby World Cup]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcupweb.com/WCrugby/1999.asp |title= World Cup Web 100% Unofficial|website=www.worldcupweb.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061215234519/http://www.worldcupweb.com/WCrugby/1999.asp |archive-date=December 15, 2006}}</ref> or when Australia beat [[Namibia national rugby union team|Namibia]] 142–0 in the [[2003 Rugby World Cup]].
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