Hosts England have been drawn with Australia, USA and Samoa for the 2025 Ladies’s Rugby World Cup.
World No 1 facet England will stage the match for the second time, with 16 nations collaborating in subsequent yr’s occasion – 4 greater than the final Ladies’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 Ladies’s Rugby World Cup takes place from August 22 to September 27.
England shall be favourites for the match as they’ve been unbeaten since their dramatic defeat to New Zealand within the World Cup remaining in 2022, which was delayed by 12 months as a result of Covid-19 pandemic.
The Pink Roses gained the current WXV1 match with victory over Canada of their final match.
England gained the Ladies’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 prospect to face New Zealand once more, having crushed the defending world champions of their opening WXV1 match in Vancouver final month.
France are prime seeds in Pool D, the place they are going to tackle Italy, South Africa and World Cup debutants Brazil.
Ladies’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.
Packer: England draw will pose us questions
Ought to all the seeded groups progress to the knockout stage as pool winners, then England wouldn’t meet both New Zealand or Canada till the ultimate at Twickenham.
England captain Marlie Packer is assured her facet shall be able to reply all of the questions thrown at them once they bid to win the match on dwelling soil.
“It [the pool draw] is going to pose us questions, but I think that is really good for us,” Packer stated.
“We don’t want to get into the knockout stages and not having being posed questions and made sure that we are in the best possible spot come those knockout stages.
“Every team that plays us wants to beat us, because we do have that dominance. That is what has been so great about these WXVs, is that we have had the opportunity to play the best teams in the world regularly for the last couple of years.
“We bought posed questions by all of the groups we performed in plenty of completely different areas, and it’s all optimistic for us, as a result of successful is a behavior and we’re superb at it because the Pink Roses.”
Ireland did not qualify for the last World Cup, but the recent wins over Australia in Belfast and then New Zealand have raised expectations.
“The group is sort of acquainted by way of groups we now have performed in the previous couple of years,” Ireland co-captain Sam Monaghan said.
“I’m buzzing to play them [New Zealand] and I’m certain they are going to be up for the rematch.”
Ladies’s Rugby World Cup 2025 schedule
England will play within the opening sport on August 22 on the Stadium of Gentle in Sunderland, with their remaining two pool matches being hosted at Franklin’s Gardens, Northampton and Brighton’s Amex Stadium.
The quarter-finals shall be shared between Sandy Park and Ashton Gate, with the semi-finals at Ashton Gate every week earlier than the ultimate.
The ultimate itself will happen at Twickenham on September 27.
World Rugby will affirm the complete 2025 Ladies’s Rugby World Cup match schedule subsequent week.