{"id":219155,"date":"2025-10-23T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219155\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:24:15","slug":"hosts-for-the-next-six-rugby-world-cups-another-two-finals-at-twickenham-page-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219155\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosts for the next six Rugby World Cups, another TWO finals at Twickenham &#8211; Page 2 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA 2031: Rugby Goes Stateside<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the Rugby World Cup heads to America in 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Biggest market yet: The U.S. brings colossal stadiums, broadcast potential and commercial opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Format: Same as 2027 \u2014 24 teams and 16-team knockout.<\/p>\n<p>Opportunities: Growing grassroots rugby, Major League Rugby clubs, and the global exposure of playing in NFL-sized venues.<\/p>\n<p>Challenges: Competing with the NFL, college football, and MLB for stadium dates. Also, ensuring a rugby atmosphere in cavernous arenas not built with the sport in mind.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a gamble \u2014 but one World Rugby hopes will pay off by finally cracking America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/hosts-for-the-next-six-rugby-world-cups-another-two-finals-at-twickenham\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CONTINUES ON PAGE THREE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA 2031: Rugby Goes Stateside For the first time, the Rugby World Cup heads to America in 2031.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-219155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}