{"id":321798,"date":"2025-12-02T02:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321798\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:26:11","slug":"2027-rugby-world-cup-draw-when-is-it-how-do-i-watch-who-could-hong-kong-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321798\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 Rugby World Cup draw: when is it, how do I watch, who could Hong Kong play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s men will discover their 2027 Rugby World Cup opponents on Wednesday, giving them little less than two years to prepare for the biggest games in the city\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With the 24 teams for an expanded tournament now set, all that remains to be seen is who will await Logan Asplin\u2019s side in Australia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">So, here is everything you need to know about the draw and what happens next.<\/p>\n<p>When is the draw and how can I watch it?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The draw for the 2027 Rugby World Cup will take place in Sydney at 8pm local time, which is 5pm Hong Kong time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s players and coaches are expected to gather to watch it together, but with the ceremony being shown on RugbyPass and World Rugby\u2019s YouTube channel, a quick 15 minutes at the end of the day shouldn\u2019t be out of the question for everyone else.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South Africa\u2019s Damian Willemse scores a try that was later disallowed after a review during his side\u2019s 73-0 hammering of Wales at the weekend. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/816a8c43-f647-41cb-939d-3381ac982781_f0c3b617.jpg\" title=\"South Africa\u2019s Damian Willemse scores a try that was later disallowed after a review during his side\u2019s 73-0 hammering of Wales at the weekend. Photo: Reuters\"\/>South Africa\u2019s Damian Willemse scores a try that was later disallowed after a review during his side\u2019s 73-0 hammering of Wales at the weekend. Photo: ReutersHow will the draw work?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The move to six pools of four teams makes things very easy to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s men will discover their 2027 Rugby World Cup opponents on Wednesday, giving them little less than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[12910,64,63,2065,30330,1208,2057,3739,2592,6782,10340,26779,2328,941,1736,7722,13112,760,15131,5993,5994,1183,11298,2020,85,670,18559,39085,2957,12812,41283],"class_list":["post-321798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-argentina","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-chile","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-fiji","tag-france","tag-georgia","tag-hong-kong","tag-ireland","tag-italy","tag-japan","tag-new-zealand","tag-portugal","tag-romania","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-samoa","tag-scotland","tag-south-africa","tag-south-america","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-tonga","tag-uruguay","tag-usa","tag-wales","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321798","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=321798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}