2021 Rugby World Cup (Kylaris)

2021 Rugby Union World Cup
Tournament details
Host nation	Satavia
Date	15th, January 2021 - 17th, February 2021
No. of nations	see Participants
	← 2017 2025 →

The 2021 Rugby World Cup, to be hosted by Satavia, is scheduled to be held in Mid January 2021, until February of that year. This marks the first time that the tournament has been hosted by Satavia, and also the first time that the cup will be held in Asteria Inferior. 20 countries qualified, and xx countries will make their World Cup debuts.

The Rugby World Cup's group stages are synced with each other, with the first matches occuring on Friday 15th January, with the opening match of the tournament being held at 8:00 in the evening, Satavian Standard Time, and will be between Caldia and Rwizikuru.

Bid

WorldRugby, the main international union for Rugby Union, and owner of the Rugby World Cup, announced biding for the 2021 Rugby World Cup in 2016. Four bids were submitted: Satavia, Halland, Nuvania and Masari. Masari's bid was withdrawn in early 2017, with the aim of instead hosting either 2025 or the 2029 world cup. Nuvania also withdrew it's bid, in order to strengthen the Satavian bid against Halland. Voting began in Caldia by the WorldRugby Host Committee (which includes former players, coaches and union representatives) following the end of the 2017 cup, and 72 votes were cast for Satavia, whilst 29 were cast for Halland.

Participants

Asteria Inferior (3)

Asteria Superior (2)

Cassier
Halland (3)

Coius (4)

Euclea (11)

Participants of the 2021 RWC, in blue, with the host, Satavia, in Green

Draw & Pools

The pool draw took place on December 3rd, 2020, with four pools, Pool A, Pool B, Pool C and Pool D being made up of:

Pool A: Seed 1 and Seed 3, and three other randomly selected nations
Pool B: Seed 2 and Seed 4, and three other randomly selected nations
Pool C: Seed 5 and Seed 7, and three other randomly selected nations
Pool D: Seed 6 and Seed 8, and three other randomly selected nations

Following the random draw, the pools were selected like this:

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Caldia Halland File:RwizikuruFlag.PNG Rwizikuru Etruria Montecara	Nuvania Satavia Alsland Mabifia West Miersa	Garambura Masari Tengaria Gapolania Cassier	Template:Country data Estmere Gaullica Soravia Azmara Galenia

Venues

Port Hope International Stadium	Fort Kinnon Arena	DePex Stadium (Stadium of the Satavians)
Port Hope	Port Arthur-Fort Kinnon	Port Hope
Capacity: 59,373	Capacity: 54,211	Capacity: 68,758

King's College Jago Sports Arena	Port Edward Arena	Satavian Airlines Oval
Port Jago	Port Edward	Adamstown
Capacity: 28,476	Capacity: 34,000	Capacity: 26,500