Rugby World Cup Schedule 2019

This app contains complete schedule of Rugby World Cup 2019.

The 2019 Rugby World Cup is the ongoing ninth Rugby World Cup and is being held in Japan from 20 September to 2 November. This is the first time the tournament has been held in Asia and outside the traditional heartland of rugby union.

The opening match of the 2019 Rugby World Cup took place at Tokyo Stadium in Chōfu, Tokyo and the final match will be held at International Stadium Yokohama in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Venues were announced in September 2015 when plans for the tournament were revised by Japan's organising committee and accepted by World Rugby.[1] The National Olympic Stadium, being rebuilt for the 2020 Summer Olympics, was originally the centrepiece of Japan's Rugby World Cup bid, but revisions to the Olympic Stadium plans mandated the World Cup venue changes.

The top three teams from the pools at the 2015 World Cup received an automatic spot, with the remaining eight teams coming from the qualifying series around the world. qualified for the 2019 tournament. Six of the remaining eight spots available were filled by regional qualifiers with the additional two spots being filled in play-off. Qualifying was split into five regional groups; Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

On 1 July 2017, the United States became the first team to qualify after defeating Canada in the two-leg match to qualify as America 1.The following two weeks saw Fiji and Tonga booking their spots as Oceania 1 and 2 respectively.Samoa would later go on to confirm their spot as the third Oceanic team with a win over Germany in a two-leg tie the following year.[13] In January 2018, Uruguay became the fourth team to qualify with a ten point victory over Canada across the two legs to book a spot as Americas 2.

In March, Romania initially qualified to take the spot as Europe 1. But after complaints from the Spanish into a investigation of ineligible players, it was deemed that Romania, Spain and Belgium all broke the eligibility rules and was deducted points which meant Russia qualified through to the World Cup while Germany headed to the play-off against Samoa.[16] In August, Namibia became the final team to qualify from the continental tournaments after defeating Kenya in the final round of the Rugby Africa Gold Cup. The final spot was decided by a repechage tournament in Marseille in November 2018, which was won by Canada.

New Zealand (1)
England (2)
Australia (3)
Ireland (4)
Scotland (5)
France (6)
South Africa (7)
Wales (8)
Argentina (9)
Japan (11)
Georgia (12)
Italy (15)
Fiji (Oceania 1)
United States (Americas 1)
Russia (Europe 1)
Namibia (Africa 1)
Tonga (Oceania 2)
Uruguay (Americas 2)
Samoa (Play-off)
Canada (Repechage)

Each team submitted a squad of 31 players for the tournament, the same as the 2015 tournament. These squads were to be submitted to World Rugby by a deadline of 8 September 2019.

The twenty teams are divided into four pools of five teams. Each pool will be a single round-robin of ten games, in which each team plays one match against each of the other teams in the same pool. Teams are awarded four league points for a win, two for a draw and none for a defeat. A team scoring four tries in a match is awarded a bonus point, as is a team that loses by seven points or less - both bonus points are awarded if both situations apply. The teams finishing in the top two of each pool advance to the quarter-finals. The top three teams of each pool receive automatic qualification to the 2023 Rugby World Cup.