But the Black Ferns, back-to-back defending champions, remain the team to beat and arrive on English soil fearless, with five of their six World Cup titles won at England’s expense.<\/p>\n
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\n The 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup culminates at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham – the iconic home of English rugby<\/p>\n
Pools and format<\/p>\n
The tournament begins with 16 nations split across four pools.<\/p>\n
Pool A – England, Australia, United States, Samoa
Pool B – Canada, Scotland, Wales, Fiji
Pool C – New Zealand, Ireland, Japan, Spain
Pool D – France, Italy, South Africa, Brazil<\/p>\n
Following three round-robin fixtures, the top two teams from each pool will progress to the knockout stage.<\/p>\n
Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 results and fixturesPool stage<\/p>\n
Pool A<\/p>\n
August 22: England 69-7 USA (Sunderland)<\/a> Pool B<\/p>\n August 23: Scotland 38-8 Wales (Salford)<\/a> Pool C<\/p>\n August 24: Ireland vs Japan – Northampton, 12pm Pool D<\/p>\n August 23: France 24-0 Italy (Exeter)<\/a> Image: Knockout stage<\/p>\n The knockout stages ramp up the drama with quarter-finals, semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and the final.<\/p>\n Thanks to the semi-final split, if New Zealand and Canada top their pools, England could avoid both until the final – providing the Red Roses win their group.<\/p>\n Quarter-finals<\/p>\n September 13: Winner of Pool C vs Runner-up Pool D – Exeter, 1pm Semi-finals<\/p>\n September 19: Winner QF1 vs Winner QF2 – Bristol, 7pm Bronze final<\/p>\n September 27: Runner-up SF1 vs Runner-up SF2 – Twickenham, 12.30pm<\/p>\n Final<\/p>\n September 27: Winner SF1 vs Winner SF2 – Twickenham, 4pm<\/p>\n Women’s Rugby World Cup venues<\/p>\n Eight stadiums across England will host pool and knockout matches, culminating in the final at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham – the iconic home of English rugby and the host venue for the 1991 and 2015 men’s Rugby World Cup finals.<\/p>\n Allianz Stadium, Twickenham Stadium of Light, Sunderland American Express Stadium, Brighton Aston Gate, Bristol Sandy Park, Exeter Franklin’s Gardens, Northampton Salford Community Stadium, Manchester York Community Stadium, York Previous winners <\/p>\n Image: Back-to-back defending champions New Zealand have claimed six of the nine Women’s Rugby World Cup titles, with England interrupting their dominance twice and the United States winning the inaugural edition in 1991.<\/p>\n 1991 – United States Red Roses 32-player World Cup squad <\/p>\n Twitter<\/p>\n This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> Forwards: Zoe Aldcroft (Gloucester-Hartpury, 63 caps), Lark Atkin-Davies (Bristol Bears, 66 caps), Sarah Bern (Bristol Bears, 71 caps), Hannah Botterman (Bristol Bears, 56 caps), Abi Burton (Trailfinders Women, 2 caps), May Campbell (Saracens, 3 caps), Mackenzie Carson (Gloucester-Hartpury, 21 caps), Kelsey Clifford (Saracens, 13 caps), Amy Cokayne (Sale Sharks, 83 caps), Maddie Feaunati (Exeter Chiefs, 15 caps), Rosie Galligan (Saracens, 24 caps), Lilli Ives Campion (Loughborough Lightning, 2 caps), Sadia Kabeya, (Loughborough Lightning, 21 caps), Alex Matthews (Gloucester-Hartpury, 75 caps), Maud Muir (Gloucester-Hartpury, 40 caps), Marlie Packer (Saracens, 110 caps), Morwenna Talling (Sale Sharks, 22 caps), Abbie Ward (Bristol Bears, 74 caps)<\/p>\n Backs: Holly Aitchison (Sale Sharks, 40 caps), Jess Breach (Saracens, 45 caps), Abby Dow (Unattached, 52 caps), Zoe Harrison (Saracens, 57 caps), Tatyana Heard (Gloucester-Hartpury, 29 caps), Natasha Hunt (Gloucester-Hartpury, 80 caps), Megan Jones (Trailfinders Women, 25 caps), Ellie Kildunne (Harlequins, 52 caps), Claudia Moloney-MacDonald (Exeter Chiefs, 35 caps), Lucy Packer (Harlequins, 31 caps), Helena Rowland (Loughborough Lightning, 39 caps), Emily Scarratt (Loughborough Lightning, 118 caps), Jade Shekells (Gloucester-Hartpury, 2 caps), Emma Sing (Gloucester-Hartpury, 8 caps)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup has landed in England and the Red Roses are chasing glory at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-91852","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\/91852","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=91852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
August 23: Australia 73-0 Samoa (Salford)<\/a>
August 30: England vs Samoa – Northampton, 5pm
August 30: United States vs Australia – York, 7.30pm
September 6: United States vs Samoa – York, 1.30pm
September 6: England vs Australia – Brighton, 5pm<\/p>\n
August 23: Canada 65-7 Fiji (York)<\/a>
August 30: Canada vs Wales – Salford, 12pm
August 30: Scotland vs Fiji – Salford, 2.45pm
September 6: Canada vs Scotland – Exeter, 12pm
September 6: Wales vs Fiji – Exeter, 2.45pm<\/p>\n
August 24: New Zealand vs Spain – York, 5.30pm
August 31: Ireland vs Spain – Northampton, 12pm
August 31: New Zealand vs Japan – Exeter, 2pm
September 7: Japan vs Spain – York, 12pm
September 7: New Zealand vs Ireland – Brighton, 2.45pm<\/p>\n
August 24: South Africa vs Brazil – Northampton, 2.45pm
August 31: Italy vs South Africa – York, 3.30pm
August 31: France vs Brazil – Exeter, 4.45pm
September 7: Italy vs Brazil – Northampton, 2pm
September 7: France vs South Africa – Northampton, 4.45pm<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skysports-rugby-world-cup-trophy_6989762.jpg\")
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\n The redesigned Women’s Rugby World Cup trophy awaits its next champion – but who will claim it in 2025?<\/p>\n
September 13: Winner of Pool B vs Runner-up Pool A – Bristol, 4pm
September 14: Winner of Pool D vs Runner-up Pool C – Exeter, 1pm
September 14: Winner of Pool A vs Runner-up Pool B – Bristol, 4pm<\/p>\n
September 20: Winner QF3 vs Winner QF4 – Bristol, 3.30pm<\/p>\n
Capacity – 82,000
Matches – Final and bronze final<\/p>\n
Capacity – 49,000
Matches – Opening game<\/p>\n
Capacity – 31,876
Matches – Pool stage<\/p>\n
Capacity – 26,462
Matches – Quarter-finals & Semi-finals<\/p>\n
Capacity – 15,600
Matches – Pool stage & Quarter-finals<\/p>\n
Capacity – 15,249
Matches – Pool stage<\/p>\n
Capacity – 11,404
Matches – Pool stage<\/p>\n
Capacity – 8,500
Matches – Pool stage<\/p>\n![\"Six-time](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skysports-new-zealand-rugby_6988829.jpg\")
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\n Six-time champions New Zealand defend their title in England in 2025<\/p>\n
1994 – England
1998 – New Zealand
2002 – New Zealand
2006 – New Zealand
2010 – New Zealand
2014 – England
2017 – New Zealand
2021 – New Zealand<\/p>\n
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