Rugby World Cup 2023 will be the tenth men’s Rugby World Cup. Sixteen teams competed in four pools of four at the inaugural tournament in 1987. It was expanded to twenty teams competing in five pools of four for RWC 1999. It changed to four pools of five for RWC …
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Up and Under is a weekly exclusive on Americas Rugby News. It covers the best and worst from games involving the Americas players and teams over the previous week. UP LA Giltinis Can the Giltinis be beaten? The expansion side are a perfect six-from-six in the 2021 MLR season. …
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Disruptions have further affected the Rugby World Cup 2023 qualifiers. Following the decision to only involve Canada and the USA in the North American regional qualifiers, regional governing body Oceania Rugby have canceled their regional qualifiers. The decision sees the Cook Islands progressing in RWC 2023 qualifiers. Oceania Rugby’s decision …
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The opening of the Nations Cup on Tuesday has seen changes to the Americas Rankings. The annual World Rugby competition this year sees Uruguay playing host to Namibia, Russia, and the Argentina XV. The first fixture saw the Argentina XV continuing their winning ways in 2019. They were up against …
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Uruguay’s tournament has come to a close, but the Americas still have one hopeful in the Semi Finals of the Hong Kong Core Qualifiers. Chile have defeated Tonga to book their place opposite Tonga with a spot in the final on the line. It wasn’t smooth sailing for the Cóndores …
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Chile are off to a perfect start in the pool stage of the Men’s Core Qualifiers at the Hong Kong Sevens. Los Cóndores earned dominant wins over the Cook Islands and Uganda on Day One to set up an all-important match against Germany with top stakes in Poool G on …
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Hong Kong will join Canada in RWC 2019 repechage. The Asia 1 RWC qualifiers proved to be superior opposition for the Cook Islands in their two-match repechage play-off series. Having won the opening fixture 26-3 in Rarotonga last weekend Hong Kong completed a 51-0 win today at home to become …
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A big win over the Cook Islands sees Hong Kong close to joining Canada in the Repechage. Hong Kong and the Cook Islands are playing a two-match home-and-away RWC qualifying series with the winner, on aggregate, to join Canada, Africa 2 and the Europe vs Oceania Play-Off loser in the …
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It’s a massive weekend in World Cup Qualifier action with four games having direct implications as to who advances either directly or for November’s Repechage series in France. In Apia it’s the first leg of the Europe/Oceania Play-Off between Samoa and Germany with the latter earning their spot by defeating …
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Hong Kong are Asia 1. This was achieved today by virtue of Hong Kong defeating South Korea. It sees Hong Kong Advancing in the RWC Qualifiers, setting up a play-off against the Cook Islands. The Cook Islands earned the right to face Asia 1 in the Cross-Regional Play-Off after Tahiti …
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