2029 Rugby World Cup

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2029 Rugby World Cup
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Tournament details
Host nationFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Dates
No. of nations16
2025
2033

The 2029 Women's Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be the eleventh edition of the Rugby World Cup for women. The tournament is to be held in Australia. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Qualifying

Tournament hosts Australia qualify automatically. They will be joined by the teams that reached the semi-final stage of the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup, who also qualified automatically.

Qualified teams
RegionTeamQualification
method
Previous
apps
Previous best result World Rugby
Ranking
1
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia HostsTBCThird place (2010)
South America

Notes

See also

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References

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