{"id":42570,"date":"2025-08-04T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42570\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:10:12","slug":"international-defence-rugby-competition-2025-fixtures-results-and-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42570\/","title":{"rendered":"International Defence Rugby Competition 2025: Fixtures, results and schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 International Defence Rugby Competition promises to be an exciting tournament with a number of teams in contention to become world champions and this is your guide the fixtures\/results from the event.<\/p>\n<p>BFBS Forces News will be live broadcasting a number of the matches on its YouTube channel\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@forces_news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe here to stay up to date with all live match updates.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday 17 August\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Esher RFC<\/p>\n<p>Pool A<\/p>\n<p>UK Armed Forces v Tonga &#8211; 13:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Ireland v Zambia &#8211; 16:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Monday 18 August\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Maidenhead RFC<\/p>\n<p>Pool B<\/p>\n<p>Fiji v Vodafone Looseheadz &#8211; 13:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>France v Australia &#8211; 16:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 21 August\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Basingstoke RFC<\/p>\n<p>Pool A<\/p>\n<p>Zambia v Tonga &#8211; 13:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>UK Armed Forces v Ireland &#8211; 16:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Friday 22 August\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Henley RFC<\/p>\n<p>Pool B<\/p>\n<p>Australia v Vodafone Looseheadz &#8211; 13:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Fiji v France &#8211; 16:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Monday 25 August\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Aldershot RFC<\/p>\n<p>Pool A<\/p>\n<p>UK Armed Forces v Zambia &#8211; 13:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Ireland v Tonga &#8211; 16:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 26 August\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Aldershot RFC<\/p>\n<p>Pool B<\/p>\n<p>Fiji v Australia &#8211; 13:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>France v Vodafone Looseheadz &#8211; 16:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Friday 29 August\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Guildford<\/p>\n<p>3rd in Pool A v 4th in Pool B &#8211; 13:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>3rd in Pool B v 4th in Pool A &#8211; 16:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 30 August\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Richmond<\/p>\n<p>Winner of Pool A v Runner-Up of Pool B &#8211; 13:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Winner of Pool B v Runner-Up of Pool A &#8211; 16:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 2 September\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Newbury<\/p>\n<p>7th\/8th Play Off match &#8211; 13:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Challenge Cup final &#8211; 16:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 3 September\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester<\/p>\n<p>3rd\/4th Play Off match &#8211; 11:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>International Defence Rugby Competition final &#8211; 15:15 BST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 International Defence Rugby Competition promises to be an exciting tournament with a number of teams in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-42570","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\/42570","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=42570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}