World Cup 2026 Rugby – 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. It is scheduled to take place in australia from 1 october to 13 november 2027. World rugby has announced a new competition starting in 2026 as part of a significant overhaul of the men's international calendar. Like 2021, the 2026 world cup will see the men's, women's, and wheelchair world cups simultaneously.
However unlike 2021, the men's tournament will feature ten teams only, and. This early draw will utilise the world rankings as of the conclusion of november 2025 to determine the seeding of participating teams. Australia last hosted the world cup in 2017. 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.
World Cup 2026 Rugby
World Cup 2026 Rugby
[1]the competition will consist of twelve teams, involving the current six nations (england, france, italy. 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 tournament will be made up of 24 teams, split into two.
Australia will host the 2026 rugby world cup, the international rugby league (irl) has announced. The 2025 men’s tournament was going to feature 16 teams, but this has been streamlined to 10 for 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 tournament was meant to take place in france in 2025, but the country withdrew last year. It has been made possible by linked reform of world rugby regulation 9 governing the international. 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.
There will be eight teams in each of the women’s.
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