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Discover
the cities which will stage
the 2007 Rugby World Cup
matches in France and Britain
In less than 200 days, on Friday
7 September 2007 to be precise,
the sixth Rugby World Cup will
kick off at the Stade de France®.
The
opening match between
France and an America's
1 qualifier
will mark
the start of an immense
festivity of world rugby.
Right through to the
final on Saturday 20
October 2007, France
will beat to the rhythm
of the world’s
third biggest sporting
event and will welcome
20 national teams, 600
players, 3,500 media
representatives, 2.4
million spectators. In
less than 200 days the
spectacle will be found
in the 12 grounds which
will stage the matches
of Rugby World Cup 2007.
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The
2007 Rugby World Cup will be
the sixth Rugby World Cup,
for the quadrennial world championship.
It will be hosted by France
from September 7 to October
20 of 2007. France won the
right to host the event in
2003, beating a bid from England.
Over 90 nations participated
in the regional qualifying
competitions that started in
2004. The eight quarter-finalists
from the 2003 event automatically
qualified, twelve further nations
have qualified. Portugal is
the only debutant nation at
the 2007 World Cup.
This
World Cup will have 20 nations
contesting 48 matches over
44 days. Forty-two matches
will be spread between ten
French cities, with four matches
to be held in Cardiff, Wales
and two matches in Edinburgh,
Scotland. Subsequent tournaments
were held in the United Kingdom
and France, in 1991, and in
South Africa, in 1995 and in
Wales in 1999. Australia hosted
the 2003 tournament. In the
first three RWC's 16 teams
contested the final rounds
after qualifying matches involving
all the other IRB member Unions
over a two-year period.
In
1999 the fourth RWC was hosted
by Wales with an expanded entry
of 20 teams, qualifying through
133 matches worldwide from
an original entry of 65 Unions.
Winners of the Cup were, New
Zealand (1987), Australia (1991),
South Africa (1995),Australia
(1999) and England (2003).
The
RWC 1999 Final was played at
the new Millennium Stadium,
Cardiff, on November 6 to conclude
a 41-game, 18-venue tournament
in Wales, England, Scotland,
Ireland and France. The semi-finals
were staged in London with
the quarter-finals in Cardiff,
Paris, Edinburgh and Dublin.
The competition will be contested
over 44 days between 20 different
nations, over 48 fixtures.
This
Rugby world cup tournament
commences on September 7, at
Stade de France between hosts
France and Argentina. The tournament
culminates at the same venue
on October 20 for the final
to decide who wins the Webb
Ellis Cup. The 20 nations are
split up into four pools of
five teams, known as A through
to D. Classification within
each pool is based on the following
scoring schedule; four points
for a win, two for a draw and
none for a loss.
A
bonus point can be awarded
in each of the following instances;
a team scores four or more
tries (regardless of the match
result) and/or a team loses
by seven points (a converted
try) or less. Each pool has
two quarter-finalists (automatic
qualifiers) from the 2003 tournament,
with the other three places
filled through qualification.
Each nation play their pool
oppostion once, in total, each
nation will have four fixtures
in the pool stages. The winners
and runners-up of each of the
four pools advance to the quarter-finals.
The
quarter-finalists will also
gain entry to the 2011 tournament
in New Zealand. Pool winners
are drawn against opposite
pool runners-up in the quarter-finals,
for example the winner of Pool
A faces the runner up of Pool
B, and the winner of Pool B
face the runner-up of Pool
A. The whole finals stage adopts
a knock-out format, and the
winners of the quarter-finals
advance to the semi-finals.
The winners of the semi-finalists
advance to the final, and the
runners-up will contest a third/fourth
place play-off the day before
the final.
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