Rugby World Cup News

By the time Uruguay play Portugal in the final Repechage match 86 teams will have taken part and 192 matches will have been played. The qualifying process for Rugby World Cup 2007 started in September 2004 when Andorra hosted Norway.  It will end at the end of February 2007 we believe with Uruguay taking the […]

Portugals hopes of qualifying for Rugby World Cup 2007 in France are still alive after recording a 16-15 victory over Morocco in Lisbon on Saturday.
The narrow victory means that Tomaz Morais side win the two-legged qualifier 26-20 on aggregate and now proceed through to the final Rugby World Cup qualifying Repechage round against Uruguay.
Morocco never […]

With a five-point away victory, Portugal welcome Morocco to Lisbon later today as favourites to proceed through to Rugby World Cup qualifying and the final repechage round against Uruguay.
We expect a tight game as Morocco dominated possession and territory for much of the first leg in Casablanca but Portugal’s organisation saw them home.

Rugby fans visiting France and able to get to Paris now have a RWC store to visit. The official store is located at 32 Avenue de la Opera in Paris with 100sm of retail space completely dedicated to the Rugby World Cup.
There is also a temporary superstores for the tournament in Marseille - and roughly […]

For the first time in the Tournaments history each of the 20 teams will be located in a regional base camp city during the initial pool stages of the Tournament. Teams will stay and train in the town or city and will play at least one match in their base camp region. Teams will travel […]

Here are the locations where the attending Countries will be based.
Argentina: Paris (first week around opening match) then Lyon (Rhone Alps)
Australia: Montpellier (Languedoc-Rousillon)
Canada: Bordeaux (Aquitaine)
England: Paris (Ile de France)
Fiji: Toulouse (Midi-Pyrenees)
France: Paris (Ile de France)
Georgia: Lyon (Aquitaine)
Ireland: Bordeaux (Aquitaine)
Italy: Marseille (Provence-Alpes-Cote du Azur)
Japan: Toulouse (Midi-Pyrenees)
New Zealand: Marseille (Provence-Alpes-Cote du Azur)
Namibia: Marseille (Provence-Alpes-Cote du Azur)
Romania: Toulouse […]

Portugal beat Morocco by 10-5 in Casablanca at the Stade du COC to take the honours in the first leg of their crucial Rugby World Cup repechage tie. In a tight match, in which all the points were scored in the first half, Cardozo Pinto scored a penalty, a try and a conversion for Portugal […]

The Repechage 2 qualifying match between Tonga and Korea will be played in Auckland, New Zealand on 10 February stadium to be confirmed. The winner of the match will qualify directly for Rugby World Cup 2007 and will join England, South Africa, Samoa and USA in pool A.

Rugby World Cup organisers have announced the kick-off times for all 48 games at this year’s tournament.
The opening fixture sees hosts France play Argentina in Paris on 7 September at 2000 BST, while the final in Paris on 20 October also starts at 2000 BST.
We have listed those for the home nations and they are:
England […]

Morocco host Portugal on the 20th January in Casablanca. The following week on the 27th they play in Lisbon with the winner going forward to meet Uruguay for the repechage 1 spot in pool’C’ at RWC 2007 in France.