Rugby World Cup 2026 – However unlike 2021, the men's tournament will feature ten teams only, and. World rugby has announced a new competition starting in 2026 as part of a significant overhaul of the men's international calendar. It is scheduled to take place in australia from 1 october to 13 november 2027. A cornerstone of overall reform of the international calendar from 2026, this reimagination of rugby world cup has players and fans at heart, providing unions and international and domestic competitions with greater opportunity and certainty.
The 2025 tournament will expand to 16 teams, providing the opportunity for more teams to compete on the biggest stage. [2] [3] the competition will run in parallel with the women's and. This early draw will utilise the world rankings as of the conclusion of november 2025 to determine the seeding of participating teams. Like 2021, the 2026 world cup will see the men's, women's, and wheelchair world cups simultaneously.
Rugby World Cup 2026
Rugby World Cup 2026
It will be the first tournament to be branded as the men's rugby world cup, a change that was announced in october 2023 to promote gender parity. The 2027 men's rugby world cup is scheduled to be the 11th edition of the rugby world cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's rugby union teams. The rugby world cup 2027 draw is scheduled to occur in january 2026, providing a unique scenario with a full two years of international competition still to unfold.
The 2026 rugby league world cup (rlwc2026) is a collection of world cups in the sport of rugby league and is a replacement tournament for the 2025 rugby league world cup. A european conference of six nations sides will play the rest of the world featuring the rugby championship teams and two others — tipped to be japan and fiji — in the july and november test windows culminating in a grand final in europe at the end of the. The 2026 men’s rugby league world cup will be the seventeenth staging of the rugby league world cup, and will be one of three major tournaments part of the 2026 rugby league world cup.
The six nations will lose a rest week to accommodate a new global men’s competition outside of the rugby world cup starting in 2026. The 2025 men’s tournament was going to feature 16 teams, but this has been streamlined to 10 for 2026. The tournament will be made up of 24 teams, split into two.
It has been made possible by linked reform of world rugby regulation 9 governing the international. There will be eight teams in each of the women’s. Australia last hosted the world cup in 2017.
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