List of leading Rugby union drop goal scorers

This is a list of the leading drop goal scorers in Rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

Test matches, with a minimum of 10 Test drop goals. Unlike in cricket

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

, where both nations must recognise a match as a Test in order for it to have Test status, rugby union considers a match to have Test status if one nation recognises it as a Test. Composite teams made up of players selected from multiple unions—specifically the British and Irish Lions

British and Irish Lions

The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales...

and Pacific Islanders

Pacific Islanders rugby union team

The Pacific Islanders rugby union team is an international rugby union team, started in 2004, that represents Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. While Niue and the Cook Islands are not members of the Pacific Tri-Nations competition, they did supply players to the squad for the Pacific Islanders' tour in 2004...

—are also considered Test teams because they are selected by a group of recognised national governing bodies. Note, however, that if one nation grants a match Test status and the opponents do not—for example, if a senior national team plays a second-level "A" national side—only the statistics for the nation granting Test status are counted in Test totals.

Players who are still active at international level are in bold.

Table including matches played 8 October 2011:

Rank	Caps	Drop goals	Player	International team
1	97	36	Jonny Wilkinson Jonny Wilkinson Jonathan Peter "Jonny" Wilkinson OBE is an English rugby union player and member of the England national team. Wilkinson rose to acclaim from 2001 to 2003, before and during the 2003 Rugby World Cup and was acknowledged as one of the world’s best rugby players...	(33) British and Irish Lions British and Irish Lions The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales... (0)
2	68	28	Hugo Porta Hugo Porta Hugo Porta is a former Argentine Rugby Union footballer, an inductee of both the International Rugby Hall of Fame and IRB Hall of Fame, and one of the best fly-halves the sport has seen...	(26) South American Jaguars South American Jaguars The South American Jaguars was an international rugby union team consisting of South American players that played during the early 1980s against the South African Springboks. South Africa invited South America to tour there as a way of counteracting its sporting isolation which was due to the... (2)
3	76	23	Rob Andrew Rob Andrew Christopher Robert "Rob" Andrew MBE , nicknamed "Squeaky", is a former English rugby union footballer and currently Director of Operations at the RFU. He was formerly the Director of Rugby of Newcastle Falcons. As a player, Andrew was assured in his kicking and defensive skills off both feet...	(21) British and Irish Lions British and Irish Lions The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales... (2)
4	76	20	Diego Dominguez Diego Dominguez Diego Dominguez is a former Argentine rugby union fly-half who played for Argentina and Italy, winning 74 caps for the latter....	(0) (20)
5	28	18	Naas Botha
6	55	17	Stefano Bettarello Stefano Bettarello Stefano Bettarello is an Italian former rugby player. He played as a fly-half.He was one of the best Italian players of his generation, having 55 caps for the Italian national team, with 7 tries, 46 conversions, 104 penalties and 17 drop goals, 483 points in aggregate. He played at the FIRA...
=	66	17	Dan Parks Dan Parks Daniel Arthur Parks is a Scottish international rugby union player who plays for RaboDirect Pro12 side Cardiff Blues as fly-half...
8	28	15	Jean-Patrick Lescarboura Jean-Patrick Lescarboura Jean-Patrick Lescarboura is a former French rugby union footballer and coach. His position was fly-half...
=	118	15	Ronan O'Gara Ronan O'Gara Ronan John Ross O'Gara is an Irish rugby union player, playing at fly-half for both Munster and Ireland. He is the all time highest point scorer for both Munster and Ireland. In addition to his prolific point-scoring, he has captained Munster, Ireland and the British and Irish Lions...	Ireland Ireland national rugby union team The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship and every four years in the Rugby World Cup, where they reached the quarter-final stage in all but two competitions The Ireland national rugby union... (15) British and Irish Lions British and Irish Lions The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales... (0)
9	37	14	Goncalo Malheiro Gonçalo Malheiro Gonçalo Pinto de Mesquita Viegas Malheiro is a Portuguese rugby union footballer. He plays as a fly-half. He works as a civil engineer. He took his degree at University of Porto....
11	32	13	Jonathan Davies
12	30	12	Pierre Albaladejo Pierre Albaladejo Pierre Albaladejo is a French rugby union footballer. His usual position was at fly-half or at fullback. He played all his career for Dax. He played for the France national rugby union team....
=	89	12	John Rutherford John Rutherford (rugby player) John Young Rutherford , nicknamed Rud or Ruddie, is a former Scottish rugby union footballer who gained 42 caps at fly-half between 1979 and 1987...	(12) British and Irish Lions British and Irish Lions The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales... (0)
14	87	11	Lisandro Arbizu Lisandro Arbizu Lisandro Arbizu is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He plays first five-sevenths or second five-sevenths...
=	36	11	Didier Camberabero Didier Camberabero Didier Camberabero , is a former French international rugby union. He played as fly half.-Biography:Didier is son of former international, Guy Camberabero, and nephew of Lilian Camberabero, two brothers who took part in the first Grand Slam won by France...
=	14	11	Guy Camberabero Guy Camberabero Guy Camberabero is a former French rugby union footballer.His position was fly-half. His team were La Voulte sportif, where he won the French rugby championship, in 1970 and US Tyrosse. He was a part of the French national team which won the 1968 Grand Slam in the Five Nations...
17	61	10	Craig Chalmers Craig Chalmers Craig Minto Chalmers is a former Scottish rugby union footballer for Melrose.-International career:The fly-half represented Scotland and the British Lions at international level...	(9) British and Irish Lions British and Irish Lions The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales... (1)
=	91	10	Neil Jenkins Neil Jenkins Neil Jenkins MBE is a former rugby union football player and current coach. He played fly-half, centre, or full back for Pontypridd, Cardiff, Celtic Warriors, Wales and the British and Irish Lions. Jenkins is Wales' highest ever points-scorer and is the third highest on the List of leading Rugby...	(10) British and Irish Lions British and Irish Lions The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales... (0)
=	30	10	Barry John Barry John Barry John is a former Welsh rugby union fly-half who played, during the amateur era of the sport, in the 1960s and early 1970s. John began his rugby career as a schoolboy playing for his local team Cefneithin RFC before switching to first-class west Wales team Llanelli RFC in 1964...	(8) British and Irish Lions British and Irish Lions The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales... (2)
=	70	10	Andrew Mehrtens Andrew Mehrtens Andrew Philip Mehrtens MNZM is a New Zealand rugby union footballer, currently playing in France for Béziers, a club in the third-level Fédérale 1 league...
=	28	10	Neculai Nichitean
=	56	10	Bobby Ross Bobby Ross (rugby) Robert P. Ross is a former Canadian national rugby player.He would earn 58 caps for Canada, including being named captain twice.- External links :*...
=	31	10	Konstantin Krachov
Sources other than those already cited: http://stats.scrum.com/statsguru/rugby/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;orderby=drop_goals;template=results;type=player.

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