2023 Women's Rugby World Cup (Kylaris)
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host nation | Template:Country data Estmere |
| Dates | 6 September – 23 September 2023 |
| No. of nations | 20 |
← 2019 Rizealand 2027 Etruria → | |
The 2023 Women's Rugby World Cup will be the eighth edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup. It will be held from September to October 2023. It will be the first Women's Rugby World Cup to be held entirely within Estmere, the birthplace of rugby union.[1][2] Matches will be played at eight venues across the country, starting and finishing in the Wolfgar Godfredson Memorial Stadium in Morwall.[3]
The defending champions are Estmere, who defeated Satavia in the 2019 Women's Rugby World Cup final.[4]
Host selection
| Bidders | Votes | ||
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| Round 1 | Round 2 | ||
| Estmere | 17 | 23 | |
| Nuvania | 14 | 16 | |
| Cassier | 8 | Eliminated | |
Venues
| Wolfgar Godfredson Memorial Stadium | Elland Park Stadium | Sheaford Automotive Arena | The Old Balinnish |
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| Morwall | Harbrough | Sheaford | Dunwich |
| Capacity: 84,000 | Capacity: 51,000 | Capacity: 36,000 | Capacity: 36,000 |
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| Guildley All-Sports Arena | Henver Xperience Stadium | Clearmount Road Stadium | Estagen Stadium Bouley |
| Morwall | Henver | Tolbury | Bouley |
| Capacity: 29,000 | Capacity: 22,000 | Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 20,000 |
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Qualifying
20 teams qualified. The host nation of Estmere automatically qualified by winning the 2019 edition, but would have qualified anyway by virtue of being the host nation. They were joined by the other top three finishers in each pool from the 2019 tournament (Rizealand, Caldia, Satavia, Chistovodia, Gaullica, Garambura, Rwizikuru, Maucha, Padaratha, Cassier and Etruria). A further seven teams (Hennehouwe, Hacyinia, Satucin, Senria, Azmara, Vanhar and Scovern) qualified by winning regional tournaments in Euclea, Coius and the Asterias. Tengaria qualified by the winning the repechage place made available since the host nation had already qualified.[3][5]
A notable absence from the 2023 tournament was Nuvania, which failed to qualify despite being ranked fifth globally.[5]
Numbers in parentheses are final positions in the International Rugby Ranking before the tournament.[5]
| Asterias (6) | Coius (6) | Euclea (8)
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Draw
The pool draw took place in January 2020, with five bands. Three bands were made up of the automatically qualifying teams and two bands were made up of the teams which had to qualify through regional tournaments and repechage. The same seeding system that had been used for prior world cups was used again in 2023. The draw was subject to criticism, much like the 2021 men's tournament, in that the draw took place over 3 years prior to the contest. The organisers said it was too late to change the process for this world cup, but responded to criticism that future world cups would conduct their pool draws closer to the tournament date.
- Band 1: The four highest ranked teams
- Band 2: The next four highest ranked teams
- Band 3: The final four automatically qualified teams
The remaining two bands were made up of qualifying teams:
- Band 5: Asterias 1, Coius 1, Euclea 1, Euclea 3
- Band 6: Asterias 2, Coius 2, Euclea 3, Repechage
This means the 20 competing teams were seeded thus (world ranking as of 1 January 2020):[5]
| Band 1 | Band 2 | Band 3 | Band 4 | Band 5 |
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Template:Country data Estmere (host) (1) |
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Squads
Match officials
| Referees | Assistant referees | Television match officials |
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References
- ↑ "Estmere wins bid to host the 2023 Women's Rugby World Cup". EBS News. 11 November 2017.
- ↑ Addy, Mark (2011). Gods We Were Strong Then! A History of Sport in Estmere.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "WRWC 2023 Updates". wrwc.org/2023-info. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ↑ "The Blacks Widows win the Women's Rugby World Cup for Estmere!". EBS News. 1 April 2019.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "International Rugby Rankings". wrwc.org/rankings-2020. Retrieved 29 July 2023.