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Awards Women’s Rugby World Cup stars shine in World Rugby Awards 2025
Following an exhilarating year of women’s rugby, the World Rugby Awards 2025 celebrate the game’s standout stars from around the world. From Women’s Rugby World Cup triumphs to breakthrough performances, these awards recognise the players, coaches, and officials who made their mark and captivated fans
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Player Welfare World Rugby Executive Board agrees new player load guidelines
World Rugby’s Executive Board has agreed new player load guidelines to cover the elite men’s and women’s game around the world. The new guidelines have been recommended to World Rugby by a project group of leading experts representing players, unions, regions and competitions around the globe.
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RWC 2027 Men's Rugby World Cup 2027: All you need to know about draw, format, pools and dates
The draw for Men's Rugby World Cup 2027 will take place on Wednesday, 3 December and the format for the expanded edition with 24 teams has been unveiled.
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World Rugby Benin grows the rugby family by joining World Rugby as an Associate Member
The World Rugby Council has approved Benin’s application for Associate Member status at it’s meeting in London on 23 September. The move takes the number of full and associate members of World Rugby to 134.
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RWC 2025 'Rugby World Cup 2025 didn’t just raise the bar, it's gone stratospheric'
Women's Rugby World Cup 2025 broke all records before it, but the game's governing body is aiming for even more growth as we build to Australia 2029.
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RWC 2027 Chile become the 23rd team to qualify for Men's Rugby World Cup 2027
Chile have qualified for Men's Rugby World Cup 2027 in Australia after a 31-12 victory in Viña del Mar.
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World Rugby awards Sophie de Goede, John Mitchell and Braxton Sorensen-McGee scoop World Rugby 2025 awards
Sophie de Goede wins World Rugby Women's 15s Player of the Year in association with HSBC as Braxton Sorensen-McGee is named as Women's 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year and John Mitchell is named World Rugby Coach of the Year.
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Women's Summit Women's Rugby Global Summit: honouring the past, celebrating the present, planning the future
LONDON - Some 400 delegates attended the Women’s Rugby Global Summit on 25-26 September at London's Science Museum.
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Awards All Black great Dan Carter honoured with International Rugby Players Association Special Merit Award
All Black great and World Rugby Hall of Fame inductee Dan Carter was presented with the International Rugby Players Association Special Merit Award at London's Science Museum.
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advisory Former World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont receives Japan’s highest honour
Former World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont receives Japan’s highest honor, The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun on the eve of the Women's RWC 2025 final in London.
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World Rugby Awards Hollie Davidson receives World Rugby Referee Award
Hollie Davidson has been presented with the World Rugby Referee Award in partnership with Emirates at the Women's Rugby Global Summit in London.
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Women in Rugby World Rugby signs IWG Women and Sport’s Brighton Plus Helsinki Declaration
This afternoon World Rugby became the latest signatory to the International Working Group (IWG) on Women and Sport’s Brighton Plus Helsinki Declaration.
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Match officials Rugby Championship 2025 updated Emirates World Rugby Match Official appointments
World Rugby has confirmed changes to the Emirates Match Official appointments for the remaining two rounds of The Rugby Championship 2025.
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Media release New strategy, the women’s game, player welfare and Rugby World Cup top the agenda at 17th World Rugby General Assembly
World Rugby Chair Brett Robinson has called on delegates attending the 17th World Rugby General Assembly to unite and drive forward behnd a new strategic direction for the international federation and its activities over the next five years.
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RWC World Rugby launches Men’s Rugby World Cup 2035 host selection process
World Rugby today launched the process for the selection of the host nation(s) for Men’s Rugby World Cup 2035, kicking off in October 2025 with expressions of interest and culminating in final appointment by November 2027. The process was launched at the 17th World Rugby General Assembly in London.
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Match officials Hollie Davidson to referee Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 final
World Rugby has today announced that Scotland’s Hollie Davidson will take charge of the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 final between Canada and hosts England at Allianz Stadium on Saturday, with Australia's Ella Goldsmith to referee the bronze final.
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World Rugby Awards World Rugby reveals Women’s 15s Player and Breakthrough Player of the Year award nominees for 2025
World Rugby has today revealed the 2025 nominees for two of the game’s most prestigious honours, the Women’s 15s Player of the Year in partnership with HSBC and the Women’s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year.
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PNC 2025 Asahi Super Dry Pacific Nations Cup 2025: Seven-up for Fiji after epic final win over Japan
Flying Fijians crowned back-to-back champions at the end of a thrilling, momentum-swinging final against Japan.
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PNC 2025 Asahi Super Dry Pacific Nations Cup 2025: Tonga claim third in thrilling play-off
Patrick Pellegrini scored 25 points to guide Tonga to third place in the Pacific Nations Cup against a spirited and determined Canada.
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Rugby World Cup 2027 Qualifying All to play for after Samoa and Chile finish Rugby World Cup 2027 qualifier first-leg all-square
A dramatic second-half Samoa fightback leaves the two-leg Rugby World Cup 2027 qualifying play-off against Chile in the balance heading into the next weekend’s decider in Vina del Mar.
