Rugby World Cup News

Samoa’s men and Australia’s women celebrated on Saturday after claiming the Oceania Sevens titles and securing their passage to Rugby World Cup Sevens 2009 in the process.
Tonga and New Zealand, though, by virtue of reaching the final will join Samoa and Australia as Oceania’s two qualifiers in the men’s and women’s events at Rugby World […]

The next round of qualifications for Rugby World Cup Sevens 2009 moves to the Samoan capital Apia this weekend.  All 11 Member Unions of the Federation of Oceania Rugby Unions (FORU) are involved across either the men’s or women’s competitions.
With Two qualification spots for Dubai next March on offer in both genders.  There are eight […]

On Thursday the Fiji Rugby Union announced that (quote)Waisale Serevi is the new Fiji Sevens coach for the IRB Sevens World Series 2008/09 and their defence of the Rugby World Cup Sevens title next year(end quote).
The Sevens legend succeeds Jo Savou, who guided Fiji to fourth place in the IRB Sevens World Series in 2007/08 […]

Regional groups representing the Auckland, Christchurch, Hamilton and Wellington regions have lodged their proposals to host either Quarter Final or the Bronze Final matches for Rugby World Cup (RWC) 2011.
Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington have all applied to host Quarter Final matches and both Auckland and Hamilton are also looking to host the Bronze Final. The […]

Rugby Travel & Hospitality Ltd has been awarded the contract for the Commercial Ticketing (Travel & Hospitality) Programme for Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand.
The web site offering all information is due to come on line in August 2008 so it you are thinking of traveling visit this site Rugby Travel & Hospitality.

England have released the shirts they will wear in the 7’s World Cup in 2009.
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The England Sevens Home Shirt for next years 7’s World Cup keeps faith with the England colours of white and red, manufactured by Nike it features sponsors Emirates name on the torso. The red […]

The draw has been made for the Oceania regional qualifier for Rugby World Cup Sevens 2009 with all 11 Member Unions of the Federation of Oceania Rugby Unions represented across the men’s and women’s events to be held in the Samoan capital Apia from 25-26 July.
The eight men’s sides are split into two pools. Samoa, […]

Portugal won the Hannover Sevens on Sunday 13 July to capture the title of European champions and secure one of the five regional qualifiers places at next year’s Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai.
Portugal, Wales, Georgia, Ireland and Italy all booked their places at the Dubai showpiece on 5-7 March 2009, joining England, France and […]

Following the recent spate of international matchs there are some minor changes to the top ten rankings.
The biggest change is New Zealand replace South Africa at number one. Also thanks to their win in Argentina Italy move up one place to 10, knocking Fiji down one to 11.
Here are the top 10:
1(2) New Zealand
2(1) South […]

The IRB has started the process of allocating the 2015 and 2019 Rugby World Cups, to allow the hosts plenty of time to set up organisations.  A letter will go to all the member Unions this month asking for interested parties to apply.  We understand that Australia, England South Africa and Japan will possibly go […]