{"id":324427,"date":"2025-12-03T06:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324427\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:55:10","slug":"rugby-world-cup-2027-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324427\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup 2027 Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rugby fans from around the world will soon discover who their favourite team will be playing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/rugby-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cup<\/a> 2027 in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The draw for the 11th edition of the tournament takes place today (Wednesday 3 December) at 09:00 GMT and can be watched live on <a href=\"https:\/\/rugbypass.tv\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">RugbyPass TV<\/a>, as well as on World Rugby\u2019s YouTube channel and Stan Sport, 9Gem and 9Now in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>As the host nation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> will be allocated a spot in Pool A, but the rest of the line-up will be unknown until the first teams are drawn.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760269811_297_spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>RWC 2027 \u2013 Go All Out | RP<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s Rugby World Cup is heading to Australia and we\u2019re going bigger than ever to welcome the world. 24 nations and territories. Seven cities. Six weeks. One cup.<br \/>Register your interest now for Pre-sale details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbyworldcup.com\/2027\/en\/newsletter?utm_source=rugbypass.com&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"video-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Register your interest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760269811_297_spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>RWC 2027 \u2013 Go All Out | RP<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s Rugby World Cup is heading to Australia and we\u2019re going bigger than ever to welcome the world. 24 nations and territories. Seven cities. Six weeks. One cup.<br \/>Register your interest now for Pre-sale details.<\/p>\n<p>World Rugby Chair Brett Robinson will be joined on stage by former Rugby World Cup winner and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> legend Dan Carter, Australia\u2019s most-capped male player, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/james-slipper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Slipper<\/a>, and Australian Olympics gold medallist, Alicia Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the six pools will feature a team from Bands 1, 2, 3 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmed Bands based on rankings are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Band 1: South Africa, New Zealand, England, Ireland, France, ArgentinaBand 2: Australia, Fiji, Scotland, Italy, Wales, JapanBand 3: Georgia, Uruguay, Spain, USA, Chile, TongaBand 4: Samoa, Portugal, Romania, Hong Kong China, Zimbabwe, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Fans will have an opportunity to secure seats for RWC 2027 during an exclusive two-week presale window starting on 18 February 2026 at 12:00 AEDT (GMT +11). Fans must create a ticketing account no later than 24 hours before to be eligible to enter the presale.<\/p>\n<p>For more news and information, including how to access tickets in the presale and secure your tickets, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbyworldcup.com\/2027\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rugbyworldcup.com\/2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for RWC 2027 will be made available on 3 February, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby fans from around the world will soon discover who their favourite team will be playing at Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-324427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324427","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=324427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}