{"id":357084,"date":"2026-01-07T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:35:06","slug":"world-rugby-confirms-three-nations-are-banned-from-the-2027-rugby-world-cup-page-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357084\/","title":{"rendered":"World Rugby confirms three nations are BANNED from the 2027 Rugby World Cup &#8211; Page 2 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8\u00a0#2. Spain \u2014 Disqualified from 2019 &amp; 2023 Rugby World Cups<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s road to the Rugby World Cup has been plagued by eligibility controversies.<\/p>\n<p>First, in 2019,\u00a0Spain, Belgium and Romania\u00a0were all\u00a0sanctioned for fielding ineligible players\u00a0during the qualification campaign \u2014 a debacle that ended up handing Russia an unexpected ticket to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Then in 2022, Spain qualified for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France for what would\u2019ve been their first appearance in 24 years \u2014 only for the dream to be\u00a0shattered again. This time, it was discovered that Spain had allegedly\u00a0used a player with a forged passport\u00a0during qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, they were\u00a0docked 10 points, booted out of the tournament, and replaced by\u00a0Romania, who had finished just behind them.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c\u00a0Despite appeals, World Rugby upheld the ban, marking the second time Spain had been removed from World Cup contention due to player eligibility issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/world-rugby-confirms-three-nations-are-banned-from-the-2027-rugby-world-cup\/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":"\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8\u00a0#2. Spain \u2014 Disqualified from 2019 &amp; 2023 Rugby World Cups Spain\u2019s road to the Rugby World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-357084","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\/357084","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=357084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}