Rugby World Cup News

Georgia beat Portugal by 17-3 at home. This win gives them the early advantage in the play-off final for Europe’s third automatic qualifying place in France next year. Portugal will need to win in Lisbon on the 25th November by more than 14 points if they are to deny Georgia a place in pool ‘D’.

Namibia beat Morocco in Casablanca 27-8 and qualify as Africa ‘1′. Namibia have qualified for their third Rugby World Cup and now face hosts France, Argentina, Ireland and probably Georgia in Pool ‘D’, they will do very well if they manage to achieve any wins in the pool stages and have no realistic chance of […]

The All Blacks swept France aside 47-3 an even greater margin than the thrashing they gave England when winning 41-20 last week. It is looking more an more as if only New Zealand themselves can ruin their party at the RWC in France 2007. certainly on form there is no side in the world at […]

On the first day of individual sales 170,000 tickets were sold from a total allocation of 550,000. 54,000 of these sales were in the UK with match’s featuring England and France being the most popular. The available allocation for seven matches has been sold out: England v South Africa at Saint Denis (Paris), England v […]

The third phase of the Rugby World Cup 2007 ticket programme opens online on 9 November. You will then be able to purchase individual match tickets for the Tournament. The previous two phases of the ticketing programme have comprised ticket sales via a range of team and city packages.
The purchase of individual match tickets can […]

The IRB has rescheduled Asia Rugby World Cup 2007 Round 3 Qualification between Hong Kong, Japan and Korea to Hong Kong. The new dates are: Japan v Hong Kong, Saturday November 18, Hong Kong v Korea, Tuesday November 21
and Korea v Japan, Saturday November 25. The winner of the tournament will qualify as Asia 1 […]