Who can still qualify for the 2023 Rugby World Cup?
KAWANA WATERS, Australia (AP) — Tonga has advanced to next year’s Rugby World Cup in France after a 44-22 win over Hong Kong in the final of an Asia Pacific qualifying tournament on Saturday. Show Tonga led 20-8 at halftime. Sonatane Takulua scored two first-half tries and added a third in the second half at the 10,000-seat Sunshine Coast Stadium north of Brisbane. Tonga will play in Pool B in France with defending champion South Africa, No. 1-ranked Ireland, Scotland and Romania. Hong Kong can still qualify for France via a second-chance tournament in Dubai in November. A four-team tournament also involving the United States, Kenya and Portugal will determine the 20th team, with the winner joining Pool C with Wales, two-time champion Australia, Georgia and Fiji. ___ More AP rugby: https://apnews.com/hub/rugby and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports The 2023 Rugby World Cup will be held in France in nine different host cities. The fixtures for the tournament will be revealed in the first half of 2021, but the pool draw has already been made. Australia were drawn alongside Wales and Fiji for the third time in as many tournaments, while Pool A will feature two of the favourites in hosts France and perennial contenders New Zealand. Italy have also been cast into Pool A. Defending champions South Africa are in Pool B with Ireland and Scotland, and England join Argentina and Japan in Pool D.
QualificationThere are eight further unseeded teams from various regions who are still to qualify for the tournament, bringing the total number of contestants to 20. The twelve already-named sides automatically qualified for the 2023 World Cup as a result of finishing in the top three in their groups in the 2019 tournament. They were split into three bands based on their rankings as of January 1, 2020, to be distributed evenly across the pools in 2023: Band 1: New Zealand, England, Australia and Ireland The remaining eight teams will be determined through a complex series of qualification matches. Band 4: Americas 1, Asia/Pacific 1, Europe 1, Oceania 1 While the dates for these regional qualifiers are yet to be set, the format for each of them is as follows: Europe 1 and 2 Americas 1 and 2 The loser of that match will enter the Americas 2 playoff, which will be played against the winner of a playoff between the 2021 Rugby Americas North and Sudamerica Rugby runners-up. The winner over the two legs of the Americas 2 playoff will join Pool D, while the loser gets a place in the Final Qualification Tournament. Oceania 1 Asia/Pacific 1 Africa 1 Final qualifier winner Full Rugby World Cup fixturesThe fixtures for the 2023 Rugby World Cup are yet to be announced. They are set to be confirmed some time in the first half of 2021. We’ll have this page updated as soon as they’re revealed. We do know the knockout format will be the same as in previous years, with pool winners facing runners-up in the quarter-finals and not able to face an opponent from their own group until the final. World Cup knockout stage bracket
Broadcast guideThe 2023 World Cup broadcast details for Australia are yet to be confirmed, although after the Nine Network and their streaming service Stan picked up the rights to Super Rugby, the Bledisloe Cup and Rugby Championship, it is likely that organisation will be the broadcaster for the World Cup. We’ll have the proper details once they’re confirmed. VenuesThere are nine venues in France that will play host to World Cup matches in 2023, down from the 12 that were initially announced. Paris’s Stade de France is set to host both the tournament opener and the final ranging from the Stade Velodrome in the south of the country to Kumamoto Stadium in the south-west. The complete list of stadiums is as follows:
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