{"id":325156,"date":"2025-12-03T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325156\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:57:13","slug":"japan-facing-france-u-s-samoa-in-2027-world-cup-pool-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325156\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan facing France, U.S., Samoa in 2027 World Cup pool stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY &#8211; Japan will be playing France, the United States and Samoa in the pool stage of the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia after the draw was made on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Brave Blossoms are in Pool E of the tournament, which has been expanded from 20 to 24 teams, with 16 teams reaching the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new format, the top two teams from each of six pools go through, along with the top four third-place finishers.<\/p>\n<p>France, fifth in the world, are ranked the highest in Pool E, with Eddie Jones&#8217; Japan 12th, the United States 16th and Samoa 19th.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament kicks off on Oct. 1 and the final is on Nov. 13 in 2027 with a total of 52 matches to be played. The detailed schedule is to be unveiled on Feb. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEY &#8211; Japan will be playing France, the United States and Samoa in the pool stage of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-325156","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\/325156","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=325156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}