{"id":789236,"date":"2026-10-02T03:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789236\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T03:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:40:10","slug":"rugby-world-cup-2027-wales-preparations-outlined-a-year-out-from-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789236\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup 2027: Wales preparations outlined a year out from Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rugby World Cup 2027 matches<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 2 October: Wales v Zimbabwe, Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, 03:45 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Friday, 8 October: Tonga v Wales, Docklands Stadium, Melbourne, 08:15 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday, 16 October: England v Wales, Stadium Australia, Sydney, 09:45 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last 16: October 23-24<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Quarter-finals: October 30-31<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Semi-finals: November 5-6<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bronze medal match: Saturday, 12 November<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Final: Sunday, 13 November<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World Cup pools<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pool A: New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Hong Kong China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pool B: South Africa, Italy, Georgia, Romania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pool C: Argentina, Fiji, Spain, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pool D: Ireland, Scotland, Uruguay, Portugal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pool E: France, Japan, USA, Samoa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pool F: England, Wales, Tonga, Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup 2027 matches Saturday, 2 October: Wales v Zimbabwe, Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, 03:45 BST Friday, 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789236","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=789236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}