Next Rugby World Cup 2026

Next Rugby World Cup 2026 – World rugby has announced a new competition starting in 2026 as part of a significant overhaul of the men's international calendar. The 2025 men's tournament was going to feature 16 teams, but this has been streamlined to 10 for 2026. Six world cup soccer games will be played in kansas city next year. This early draw will utilise the world rankings as of the conclusion of november 2025 to determine the seeding of participating teams.

The process of expanding for soccer's 2026 fifa world cup. 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 tournament will feature 104 matches instead of the previous 64 games. 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.

However unlike 2021, the men's tournament will feature ten teams only, and. The men's rugby world cup 2027 in australia will feature 24 teams after the world rugby council approved historic reimagination of the competition format, window and timing. Like 2021, the 2026 world cup will see the men's, women's, and wheelchair world cups simultaneously.

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. Competitiveness, and fan engagement landscape. 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.

Will be home to the rugby world cup for men in 2031 and. The tournament will be made up of 24 teams, split into two. 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.

There will be eight teams in each of the women’s. England (2025), australia (2027 and 2029) and usa (2031 and 2033) are announced as host locations of the next 10 years of rugby world cup tournaments for men and women. Australia last hosted the world cup in 2017.

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