How to watch, when it’s on and how it works

In Rugby World Cup news, Friday is D-day. In other words, it is the RWC draw day.

For those of you who don’t have a clue, you can watch the draw on Rugby Pass TV at 5am (AEDT) on Friday.

So is there a pool of death? It definitely is, and always will be.

The 2025 England Women’s Rugby World Cup will be held from 22 August 2025 to 27 September 2025. This World Cup will feature 16 teams in four pools, up from 12 teams in the last World Cup.

Rugby isn’t soccer, but it’s still pretty global. We have teams from North America, South America, Asia, the UK, Europe, Africa and Oceania.

Completion of the WXV3 tournament saw Spain and Samoa qualify. For Spain, it is their debut match, and for Samoa, it is their first return to the World Cup since 2014.

Brazil also advanced to the finals for the first time, and Ireland, which did not advance to the finals of the last World Cup, participated in last year’s WXV3 tournament and this year advanced to the top-tier tournament, WXV1, defeating Black and facing Fortune’s biggest change. fern. They also returned to the World Cup.

So who’s in it?

• uk
• Ireland
• Scotland
• Wales
• france
• Italy
• Spain
• South Africa
• Canada
• USA
• brazil
• japan
• New Zealand
• australia
• Fiji
• Samoa

The top four teams in the World Rugby Women’s rankings (as of October 14) will be placed in Band 1 and the first position in each pool will be pre-filled. The remaining 12 teams will be drawn into bands 2, 3 and 4 based on their rankings.

The bands are:

Band 1 – Seeds 1 to 4
Band 2 – Seeds 5-8
Band 3 – Seeds 9 to 12
Band 4 – Seeds 13 to 16

band 1
UK (1) Canada (2) New Zealand (3) France (4)

band 2
Australia (5) Ireland (6) Scotland (7) Italy (8)

band 3
USA (9) Wales (10) Japan (11) South Africa (12)

band 4
Spain (13) Samoa (15) Fiji (17) Brazil (42)

Then, let the drawing begin.