{"id":383936,"date":"2026-01-01T03:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T03:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:38:07","slug":"looking-forward-to-2026-bc-rugby-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383936\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward to 2026 &#8211; BC Rugby News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tA Look at the 2026 Schedule for Canadian National Teams<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve, time to celebrate the past year, you can view our four articles that highlight the past year, <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrugbynews.com\/2025-in-review-january-to-march\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January to March<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrugbynews.com\/2025-in-review-april-to-june\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April to June<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrugbynews.com\/2025-in-review-july-to-september\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July to September<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrugbynews.com\/2025-in-review-october-to-december\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October to December<\/a>. It\u2019s also time to look at 2026. The national women\u2019s XVs will be playing their Pacific Four series in April\/May then a new WXV Global in the fall. England will be visiting in October for at least two matches. Canada didn\u2019t host any Pacific Four matches in 2025 so are due to host some in 2026. The men\u2019s national XVs will be part of the Nations Cup and that schedule is already known, 3 July matches at home and 3 away matches in Europe in November. As for 7s the women have already completed 2 tournaments in the 2025\/26 season and have their next tournament in Singapore at the end of January. The men are in the SVNS 3 tournament in January, they have to finish top two to continue their season.<\/p>\n<p>The following is the Nations Cup schedule for 2026, the Tier 1 countries play in a separate Nations Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Nations Cup Summer Series<\/p>\n<p>Matches will be held in the Americas region, with Samoa playing their matches in South America and Tonga playing their matches in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Round 1<br \/>4 July 2026<br \/>Canada v Spain<br \/>Chile v Romania<br \/>Samoa v Hong Kong<br \/>Tonga v Zimbabwe<br \/>United States v Portugal<br \/>Uruguay v Georgia<\/p>\n<p>Round 2<br \/>11 July 2026<br \/>Canada v Portugal<br \/>Chile v Hong Kong<br \/>Samoa v Georgia<br \/>Tonga v Spain<br \/>United States v Zimbabwe<br \/>Uruguay v Romania<\/p>\n<p>Round 3<br \/>18 July 2026<br \/>Canada v Zimbabwe<br \/>Chile v Georgia<br \/>Samoa v Romania<br \/>Tonga v Portugal<br \/>United States v Spain<br \/>Uruguay v Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>Nations Cup Fall Series<\/p>\n<p>European teams will host all of their matches at home. Hong Kong will play their first two matches in Europe, with the third (against Tonga) being held in Hong Kong. Zimbabwe will host their games in England.<\/p>\n<p>Round 4<br \/>7 November 2026<br \/>Georgia v Tonga<br \/>Hong Kong v Canada<br \/>Portugal v Samoa<br \/>Romania v United States<br \/>Spain v Chile<br \/>Zimbabwe v Uruguay<\/p>\n<p>Round 5<br \/>14 November 2026<br \/>Georgia v Canada<br \/>Hong Kong v United States<br \/>Portugal v Chile<br \/>Romania v Tonga<br \/>Spain v Uruguay<br \/>Zimbabwe v Samoa<\/p>\n<p>Round 6<br \/>21 November 2026<br \/>Georgia v United States<br \/>Hong Kong v Tonga<br \/>Portugal v Uruguay<br \/>Romania v Canada<br \/>Spain v Samoa<br \/>Zimbabwe v Chile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Look at the 2026 Schedule for Canadian National Teams It\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve, time to celebrate the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-383936","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\/383936","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=383936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}