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The tournament will be the first branded as the Men's Rugby World Cup, a change that was announced in October 2023. [27] All previous editions were branded as simply the Rugby World Cup, with the Women's tournament branded as the Women's Rugby World Cup between 1991—2017 and without a gender designation in 2021 tournament.
The qualification process for the 2027 Men's Rugby World Cup in Australia began during the pool stages of the 2023 tournament in France, at which the top three teams from each of the four pools qualified automatically for the 2027 event. With an expansion to twenty four teams from 2027, a further twelve teams will qualify through regional ...
Qualifying will begin with two elimination matches between the bottom four ranked teams in South America; Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Venezuela.The first round will consist of a semi final and final format, with based on World Rugby Rankings dictating the semi-final match-ups, with the winners advancing to play each other in the final.
Round three, will see the final eight sides face each other in a straight knock-out format based on their seedings in 2024. The winner of this round will qualify for the Rugby World Cup, whilst the runner-up will face Asia 2 from the Asian qualification process in a play-off series to determine who advances to the Final Qualification Tournament.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. International men's rugby union competition Not to be confused with Rugby League World Cup. This article is about the men's rugby union tournament. For the women's World Cup in union, see Women's Rugby World Cup. For other world cups for rugby, see World cup of rugby. "RWC" redirects ...
The tournament will conclude with the final at the Stade de France on Saturday 28 October
The 2024 Asia Rugby Men's Division 1 was contested by four teams in a knockout format. The tournament was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. [2]Sri Lanka won the competition and advanced to Round 3 of the Qualification process, whilst India, Kazakhstan and Qatar were all eliminated.
Hopes are high that this will be the year for Ireland to challenge for a Rugby World Cup and improve their poor record at the tournament. Ireland have never been beyond the quarter-final stage at ...