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Seeding for the twelve automatic qualified countries for Rugby World Cup 2019 is likely to be Pushed back 12 months, the Scotsman reported this morning. Rugby’s global event will be staged outside of a founding union member for the first time in history when Japan hosts the Rugby World Cup …

The city-state of Monaco and Dublin, Ireland, will host the final Olympic Sevens qualification tournaments in June. World Rugby has set the dates for the men on June 18-19 at Stade Louis II and the women a week later on June 25-26 at the UCD Bowl. Only the winning team …

The governing body of rugby, World Rugby has unveiled an altered qualification process for Rugby World Cup 2019 which will be held in Japan. Revealed are where the 8 qualifying countries will come from with some continental regions having advantages over others. The 8 qualifying teams will join the 12 …

The historic Americas Six Nations will get the go ahead. The tournament is yet to be officially launched due to ongoing arrangements in regards to the name and sponsor acquisition, but the governing body of Brazilian rugby – the Confederação Brasileira de Rugby (CBRu) – has confirmed the tournament is …

Brazil’s national women’s Rugby Sevens team haqd a successful weekend in Ireland where, on Sunday, they won the Plate Final of a qualifying competition for the World Rugby Women’s Rugby Sevens Circuit. Competing were teams from the world over with Brazil being joined by Colombia and Mexico are representatives of …

Colombia’s Women finished 10th at an international Sevens event which took place this weekend in Ireland. The South Americans played matches against opposition from Africa, Europe, Oceania and Asia for the first time in history and completed a win against Samoa. Colombia also had matches against Holland, China and Kenya …