1976 Australia rugby union tour of Europe

The 1976 Australia rugby union tour of Europe was a series of ten matches played by the Australia national rugby union team (the Wallabies) in France and Italy in October and November 1976. The Wallabies won four and lost six of their matches; they lost both of their international matches against France in Bordeaux and Paris but won the international against Italy.

Australia did not award full international caps for the match against Italy while Italy did. The match was played at Arena Civica in Milan and was narrowly won by the Australians by one point, 16-15.

Matches

 * Scores and results list Australia's points tally first.

Touring party

 * Manager - J. G. Bain
 * Coach - Bob Templeton
 * Captain - Geoff Shaw

Backs

 * Paddy Batch
 * Philip Crowe
 * Gary Grey
 * Rod Hauser
 * Jim Hindmarsh
 * Bill McKid
 * Peter McLean
 * Laurie Monaghan
 * John Ryan
 * Greg Shambrook
 * Geoff Shaw
 * Ken Wright

Forwards

 * Bruce Battishall
 * Keith Besomo
 * Chris Carberry
 * Greg Cornelsen
 * David Dunworth
 * Glenn Eisenhauer
 * Steve Finnane
 * Tony Gelling
 * Ron Graham
 * David Hillhouse
 * Peter Horton
 * Mark Loane
 * John Meadows
 * Gary Pearse
 * Tony Shaw
 * Reg Smith