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SYDNEY (AP) \u2014 Australia will play Hong Kong<\/a> in the western city of Perth on Oct. 1 to open the 2027 Rugby World Cup. The final will be on Nov. 13 at Stadium Australia in Sydney<\/a>.<\/p>\n Organizers announced the schedule, venues and times on Tuesday for all 52 matches over 19 match days in seven cities and eight venues.<\/p>\n The draw was held in Sydney in December. South Africa<\/a>, the two-time defending champion, open against Italy on Oct. 3 in Adelaide.<\/p>\n Organizers also announced a so-called \u201cSuper Sunday\u201d on Oct. 17, 2027, when five matches will be played on the final day of pool play: Italy vs. Georgia, Ireland vs. Uruguay, Scotland vs. Portugal, France vs. Samoa and South Africa<\/a> vs Romania.<\/p>\n Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney will host the first ever knockout round of 16, followed by quarterfinals in Brisbane and Sydney, and semifinals, bronze final and final in Sydney.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n AP rugby: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/rugby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) \u2014 Australia will play Hong Kong in the western city of Perth on Oct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-454568","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\/454568","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=454568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}