Women’s Rugby World Cup Set to Expand to 16 Teams in 2025
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World Rugby has confirmed that the womens edition of the Rugby World Cup will expand to 16 teams from 2025 onwards.
Category Archives: National Women’s XVs
Women’s Rugby World Cup 2021
2021 World Cup Draw Announced – Canada v USA in Pool B; Canadian Coached Japan Likely to Land in Pool B
The pool draw for RWC 2021 was made yesterday and Canada have found themselves in Pool B with North American rivals USA. In RWC 2017 the USA made it through to the final group of four based on bonus points. Canada finished 5th. Both teams had a 2-1 record and both came second in their pool to the eventual finalists, New Zealand and England. That year the format was the top 3 in each pool plus the best 2nd place would go to the final 4.
Players in the News – November 2020
Cindy Nelles Scores Winning Try for Canterbury and Named to New Zealand Barbarians Squad – A Look Back to 2012 and the National East v West Match
Cindy Nelles first showed up on our radar in 2012 when she started at #4 in the national women’s XVs East v West match in Langford. She played for the West and her lock partner that day was Maria Jaworski, the loose forwards on the West team were Kayla Mack, Barbara Mervin and Jen Kish, quite a bit of talent there. The East however had some talent in the backline including Ghislaine Landry, Magali Harvey, Bianca Farella, Britt Benn and Mandy Marchak. The East would prevail on that August day.
Women’s Rugby World Cup 2021
Women’s Rugby World Cup 2021 Draw Next Week in Auckland: NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Adern Features with Former All Blacks Dr. Farah Palmer and Dan Carter: Canada Ranked #3
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– Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to join Melodie Robinson, Dr Farah Palmer and Dan Carter as RWC 2021 ball presenters
World Cup 2021 – Updates
Date set for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2021 Draw: Canada in Band One with NZ and England
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– Rugby World Cup 2021 Draw confirmed for 20 November 2020
– Draw event to be held at SkyCity Theatre in the heart of Auckland
– RWC 2021 Draw to be live streamed to global audiences via World Rugby digital channels
– World Rugby Womens Rankings to be used for first time to determine draw bandings for direct qualifiers
Women’s Rugby World Cup 2021
Women’s 2021 Rugby World Cup is One Year Away: Pool Matches on Sept 18, 23, 28 at Eden Park, Northland Events Centre and Waitakere Stadium: Canada Ranked 3rd in World
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Eden Park, a venue steeped in Rugby World Cup history having hosted the mens finals in 1987 and the opening match and final in 2011, will break new ground as the host of the womens edition of a Rugby World Cup for the first time.
Provincial Rugby Updates – August 2020
Quebec Rugby Gets World Rugby Attention with Initiative to Send 20 Players to France to Play Professionally
It was a great initiative that caught the eye of World Rugby. They published the article on their French website, we made a modest effort to translate it to English (article appended below).
National Women’s XVs Team 2014
CANADA’S WORLD CUP LONG LIST ANNOUNCED FOR VANCOUVER ISLAND CAMP and USA MATCHES APRIL 15th and 19th
Rugby Canada media release
posted April 3 2014
LANGFORD, BC – Canadas Womens Fifteens head coach Francois Ratier has announced his long list of players selected for the upcoming Womens Rugby World Cup campaign.