{"id":161570,"date":"2025-09-22T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161570\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:13:08","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-how-england-2025-became-biggest-tournament-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161570\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: How England 2025 became biggest tournament ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For instance, minnows Brazil, far from home and with a low profile, had all three of their pool-stage fixtures put on in the immediate build-up or aftermath of a bigger fixture at the same stage, with Ireland, New Zealand and France helping shine a spotlight their way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Content creators were embedded with all the teams to produce off-pitch content that connected with fans with stories, teams and players they may not have known before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@rugbyworldcup\/video\/7544496477041626390\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia&#8217;s 18-year-old full-back Caitlyn Halse being hauled up into the stands in York, external<\/a> by her father was viewed more than 13m times on Rugby World Cup&#8217;s TikTok account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a shift to rugby&#8217;s traditional hotbeds for the knockout stages, delivering the biggest crowds for the biggest matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The quarter-finals were a south-west affair, split between Exeter&#8217;s Sandy Park and Bristol&#8217;s Ashton Gate. The semi-finals &#8211; both staged in Bristol &#8211; attracted a combined total of 49,870 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday&#8217;s crowd will surpass the 58,498 who watched England beat France at the same stadium in the 2023 Six Nations &#8211; the previous record for a 15-a-side match &#8211; and the 66,000 who watched the women&#8217;s rugby sevens at Stade de France during the 2024 Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For instance, minnows Brazil, far from home and with a low profile, had all three of their pool-stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-161570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}