2021 Rugby World Cup (Kylaris)

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2021 Rugby World Cup
2021 Rugby World Cup logo (PNG).png
Tournament details
Host nation Satavia
Dates15 January – 17 March
No. of nations20 (52 qualifying)
Final positions
Champions Gold medal blank.svg Garambura
Runner-up Silver medal blank.svg Satavia
Third place Bronze medal blank.svg Caldia
Tournament statistics
Matches played48
Attendance2,581,211 (53,775 per match)
Top scorer(s)Garambura Jean-Loup Dupuy (93)
Most triesSatavia Jonty Warwick (9)
2017
2025

The 2021 Rugby World Cup was the eleventh edition of the Rugby World Cup, hosted in Satavia and held from 15 January to 17 March across twelve stadiums in Satavia. The opening match between Caldia and Rwizikuru was played at the Stadium of the Satavians, Port Hope where the final was also held. This marked the first time that the openining match of the tournament did not involve the host nation, after the match was postponed due to a flash flood the night before the match was due to be held. The tournament marked the second time the tournament had been hosted in Asteria Inferior (after the 1993 tournament, held in Nuvania) and the first time Satavia had hosted.

The tournament saw 20 nations compete, with two (Alsland and Gapolania) making their debuts having succesfully qualified for the first time. 12 nations gained automatic qualification having finished in the top three of their pools from the 2017, whilst the remaning eight slots were filled through qualification processes. Garambura went on to beat hosts Satavia 28-17 in the final to claim their second title, whilst defending champions Caldia defeated Rizealand 17-3 to clinch third place.

Bids

Kylaris Rugby, the international rugby union governing body, announced the bidding process for the 2017 and 2021 tournaments in early 2011. Four bids for the 2021 tournament were entered: Maucha, Nuvania Rizealand and Satavia. The deadline for entering a bid was December 31, 2012, although this was extended until January 15, 2013 on the request of the Satavian Rugby Football Association (SRFA). Nuvania withdrew their bid in March 2013 in support of the Satavian bid, whilst Maucha withdrew their bid later that month with the aim of strenghthening their own bid for 2017 (which would ultimately be awarded to Garambura). On July 14 Kylaris Rugby confirmed that Satavia had won the right to host the 2021 tournament, with venues across eight Satavian cities: Bloemstad, Kingsleigh, Konningstad, Northport, Port Arthur, Port Hope, Windstad, Victoriaburg.

Venues

Proposed stadia for the tournament were announced by the SRFA in December 2013, and were confirmed in May 2015. Having originally proposed 12 stadiums, this number was reduced to 9 in the final plan, with two stadiums in the Port Hope/Burnaby region. The SRFA drew significant criticism from politicians and the public in the Central Territory, Diereplek Province and New Borland after all three were excluded from the final plan.

Port Hope International Stadium Fort Kinnon Arena DePex Stadium
(Stadium of the Satavians)
Satavia Port Hope Satavia Port Arthur-Fort Kinnon Satavia Port Hope
Capacity: 59,373 Capacity: 54,211 Capacity: 70,758
14-05-2005-dairy farmers at dusk.JPG Subiaco Oval.jpg Sydney-Galaxy-homebush.jpg
P. J. Van der Herdens Stadium Krooksveld Road Stadium Satavian Airlines Oval
Satavia Konningstad Satavia Northport Satavia Windstad
Capacity: 28,476 Capacity: 34,822 Capacity: 26,183
Bluetongue CC Stadium.jpg Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs - 31st May 2008 181.jpg WIN Stadium2.jpg
Victoriaburg City Stadium Brooksveld Stadium Kingsleigh Blues RFC Park
Satavia Victoriaburg Satavia Bloemstad Satavia Kingsleigh
Capacity: 65,445 Capacity: 36,290 Capacity: 24,512
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Qualifying

The top three teams from each pool of the 2017 tournament recieved automatic qualification, as did Satavia as host nation. The remaining eight places were filled through qualification tournaments around the world. Two slots were avaliable for Asterian teams, filled by Cassier and Gapolania, two spots for Coian teams, filled by Mabifia and Rwizikuru, whilst three slots were open for Euclean teams, filled by Alsland, Galenia and Montecara. The final slot was decided by a repechage tournament held in Port Hope, in September 2018. It was unexpectedly won by Alsland, who defeated favourites Senria 36-24 in the deciding game.

Qualifying teams
Region Team Qualification
method
Previous
Apps
Previous best result World
Ranking
¹
Asterias
 Cassier Asterias 1 8 Fourth place (2001) 16
 Gapolania Asterias 2 0 Debut 34
 Nuvania Automatic 10 Champions (1981, 1993, 2013) 6
 Rizealand Automatic 10 Champions (1985) 5
 Satavia Automatic 10 Champions (1997) 2
Coius
 Garambura Automatic 10 Champions (2001) 3
 Mabifia Coius 1 8 Pool stage (eight times) 13
 Maucha Automatic 10 Third place (2009) 7
File:RwizikuruFlag.PNG Rwizikuru Coius 2 6 Pool stage (six times) 14
Euclea
 Alsland Repechage 0 Debut 29
 Azmara Automatic 7 Quarter-finals (2005, 2013) 15
 Caldia Automatic 10 Champions (1989, 2005, 2009, 2017) 1
Template:Country data Estmere Automatic 10 Third place (1997) 4
 Etruria Automatic 10 Quarter-finals (1989, 2005) 12
 Galenia Euclea 1 3 Pool stage (2009, 2013, 2017) 20
 Gaullica Automatic 10 Third place (1989) 8
 Montecara Euclea 2 1 Pool stage (2017) 26
 Soravia Automatic 7 Fourth place (2013) 11
 Tengaria Euclea 3 6 Quarter-finals (2009, 2013) 10
 West Miersa Automatic 1 Pool stage (2017) 9

¹as of 1 January 2019, the final standings before pools were drawn

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

Draw

The pool draw took place on January 7, 2019, with five bands, three of which were made up of the automatically qualifying teams and two made up of the teams which had to qualify to participate. The seeding system used at previous world cups was retained for the 2021 tournament.

  • 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 2
  • Band 6: Asterias 2, Coius 2, Euclea 3, Repechage

This means the 20 competing teams were seeded thus (world ranking as of 1 January 2019):

Band 1 Band 2 Band 3 Band 4 Band 5

Squads

Each team submitted a squad of 31 players for the tournament, with a deadline of 1 January, with Estmere being the last team to unveil a squad, doing so on the 31 December 2020. In the originally named Etruria squad, two players, Aleki Ioane and brother Enele Ioane were named, but removed after the deadline and replaced with the consent of Kylaris Rugby as they were ineligible to play for Etruria (at that time they were only eligible to play for Satavia, through the Patrick Islands, but became eligible for Etruria on the 17 January, two days after the start of the World Cup).

Match officials

For the 2021 World Cup, Kylaris Rugby named twelve referees, eight assistant referees and four television match officials to oversee all 48 matches.

Referees Assistant referees Television match officials

Pool Stage

Key to colours in pool tables
Advanced to the quarter-finals and qualified for the 2025 Rugby World Cup
Eliminated but qualified for 2025 Rugby World Cup

Pool A

Team Pld W D L BP Total Pts
 Rizealand 4 4 0 0 4 20
 Caldia 4 3 0 1 1 13
File:RwizikuruFlag.PNG Rwizikuru 4 1 1 2 1 7
 Etruria 4 1 1 2 0 6
 Montecara 4 0 0 4 0 0
15 January 2021 File:RwizikuruFlag.PNG Rwizikuru 3-7  Caldia DePex Stadium, Port Hope
16 January 2021  Montecara 3-35  Rizealand Port Hope International Stadium, Port Hope
17 January 2021  Etruria 11-0  Montecara Port Edward Arena, Port Edward
17 January 2021 File:RwizikuruFlag.PNG Rwizikuru 18-37  Rizealand Port Hope International Stadium, Port Hope
20 January 2021  Caldia 21-26  Rizealand DePex Stadium, Port Hope
20 January 2021  Montecara 0-10 File:RwizikuruFlag.PNG Rwizikuru Port Hope RFC Grounds, Port Hope
23 January 2021 File:RwizikuruFlag.PNG Rwizikuru 0-0  Etruria Satavian Airlines Oval, Adamstown
23 January 2021  Caldia 24-0  Montecara Fort Kinnon Arena, Port Arthur-Fort Kinnon
24 January 2021  Caldia 21-0  Etruria Northport RFC, Northport
26 January 2021  Rizealand 65-0  Etruria Fort Kinnon Arena, Port Arthur-Fort Kinnon

Knockout Stage

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
29 January – Port Hope
 
 
 Rizealand19
 
5 February – Port Hope
 
 Azmara7
 
 Rizealand12
 
29 January – Fort Kinnon
 
 Satavia13
 
 Satavia14
 
16 February – Port Hope
 
 Gapolania10
 
 Satavia17
 
31 January – Northport
 
 Garambura28
 
 Garambura8
 
6 February – Port Hope
 
 Nuvania5
 
 Garambura18
 
30 January – Port Hope
 
 Caldia14 Third place
 
Template:Country data Estmere17
 
13 February – Port Hope
 
 Caldia19
 
 Rizealand3
 
 
 Caldia17
 

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