Hosts England have been drawn with Australia, USA and Samoa for the 2025 Girls’s Rugby World Cup.
World No 1 facet England will stage the event for the second time, with 16 nations collaborating in subsequent 12 months’s occasion – 4 greater than the final Girls’s Rugby World Cup.
Scotland and Wales have been drawn collectively in Group B, which additionally options Canada and Fiji, whereas Eire will face defending champions New Zealand, plus Japan and Spain in Group C.
The 2025 Girls’s Rugby World Cup takes place from August 22 to September 27.
England can be favourites for the event as they’ve been unbeaten since their dramatic defeat to New Zealand within the World Cup closing in 2022, which was delayed by 12 months as a result of Covid-19 pandemic.
The Crimson Roses received the latest WXV1 event with victory over Canada of their final match.
England received the Girls’s Rugby World Cup in 1994 and 2014, however have completed runners-up to New Zealand within the final two editions.
Eire will get the possibility to face New Zealand once more, having overwhelmed the defending world champions of their opening WXV1 match in Vancouver final month.
France are prime seeds in Pool D, the place they may tackle Italy, South Africa and World Cup debutants Brazil.
Girls’s Rugby World Cup 2025 attract full
- Group A: England, Australia, USA, Samoa.
- Group B: Canada, Scotland, Wales, Fiji.
- Group C: New Zealand, Eire, Japan, Spain.
- Group D: France, Italy, South Africa, Brazil.
Girls’s Rugby World Cup 2025 schedule
England will play within the opening sport on August 22 on the Stadium of Mild in Sunderland, with their remaining two pool matches being hosted at Franklin’s Gardens, Northampton and Brighton’s Amex Stadium.
The quarter-finals can be shared between Sandy Park and Ashton Gate, with the semi-finals at Ashton Gate per week earlier than the ultimate.
The ultimate itself will happen at Twickenham on September 27.
World Rugby will affirm the complete 2025 Girls’s Rugby World Cup match schedule subsequent week.
