2021 Rugby World Cup (Kylaris)

2021 Rugby Union World Cup

Tournament details
Host nation	Satavia
Date	15 January 2021 - 17 February 2021
No. of nations	see Participants
Final positions
Champions	Garambura
Runner-up	Satavia
Third place	Caldia
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The 2021 Rugby World Cup was hosted by Satavia and held between 15 January and 17 February. It marked the first time that the tournament has been hosted by Satavia, and also only the second time that the cup was held in Asteria Inferior. 20 countries qualified, and two countries made their World Cup debuts.

The Rugby World Cup's group stages were synced with each other, with the first matches occuring on Friday 15th January, with the opening match of the tournament being held at 20:00, Satavian Standard Time, and was between Caldia and Rwizikuru, with Caldia ultimately winning 7-3.

Garambura would defeat hosts Satavia in the final 28-17, whilst Caldia, who were favourites going into the competition, clinched third place from Rizealand 17-3.

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, Rizealand, 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 Masari's bid was withdrawn in early 2017, with the aim of instead hosting either 2025 or the 2029 world cup.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 Rizealand. 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 Rizealand.

Participants

Asteria Inferior (3) Gapolania Nuvania (2) Satavia (4) Asteria Superior (2) Cassier Rizealand (3) Coius (4) Garambura Masari Mabifia Rwizikuru

Euclea (11) Alsland Azmara Caldia (1) Template:Country data Estmere Etruria Galenia Gaullica Montecara Soravia Tengaria West Miersa

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 Rizealand 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

Pool Stage

Pool A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	BP	Total Pts
Rizealand	4	4	0	0	4	20
Caldia	4	3	0	1	1	13
Rwizikuru	4	1	1	2	1	7
Etruria	4	1	1	2	0	6
Montecara	4	0	0	4	0	0

15 January 2021	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	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	Rwizikuru	Port Hope RFC Grounds, Port Hope
23 January 2021	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-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	29 January – Port Hope
	Rizealand	19
					5 February – Port Hope
	Azmara	7
					Rizealand	12
	29 January – Fort Kinnon
					Satavia	13
	Satavia	14
									16 February – Port Hope
	Gapolania	10
									Satavia	17
	31 January – Northport
									Garambura	28
	Garambura	8
					6 February – Port Hope
	Nuvania	5
					Garambura	18
	30 January – Port Hope
					Caldia	14			Third place
	Template:Country data Estmere	17
									13 February – Port Hope
	Caldia	19
									Rizealand	3
									Caldia	17

Broadcasting

• Gapolania: RTG Sport
• Montecara: Telè1
• Satavia: SBC
• Template:Country data Estmere: EBS 1 & EBS Sport