The 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup pools are set after Thursday’s draw held in London.
The USA is in one of the toughest pools, quite possibly the most competitive pool, in Pool A. Canada, meanwhile, is nicely-placed to win their pool.
The match schedule will be revealed on October 22. Prior to the draw, the 16 qualified teams were placed into four bands based on the World Rugby Women’s Rankings as of 14 October with the top four teams in Band 1 (England, Canada, New Zealand and France) prepopulated into the first position of each pool.
Teams will play each of their pool opponents over three weekends with the two best teams on competition points in each pool qualifying for the quarterfinals and the knockout phase.
Pool A: England, USA, Australia, Samoa
Pool B: Canada, Scotland, Wales, Fiji
Pool C: New Zealand, Ireland, Japan, Spain
Pool D: France, Italy, South Africa, Brazil
This is the first time that the Women’s Rugby World Cup has had 16 teams in it. As a result, here, teams will need to be in the top two of each pool to make the quarterfinals. What that generally means is winning two games, and that would certainly make the USA-vs-Australia game a massive clash.
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