2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying

The qualification process for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup began on 14 February 2015. Twelve teams qualified for the tournament, which was held in Ireland[1] in 2017.

Qualification process

Following the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, seven teams received an automatic qualification berth - these berths being given to the top seven teams (England, Canada, France, Ireland, New Zealand, the United States and Australia). The remaining five berths for the 2017 finals were awarded through regional tournaments.

The non-automatic qualification process began on 14 February 2015.

Regional qualification

There are 12 nations participating in the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. Seven teams have automatically qualified by virtue of their performance at the prior Rugby World Cup, leaving five teams to qualify through regional matches. Regional Qualification began on 14 February 2015, during the second round of the 2015 Women's Six Nations Championship.

Region Automatic qualifiers Teams in qualifying process Qualifying
places		 Qualified teams World Cup pools
Americas200 Canada (AQ)
 United States (AQ)		A
B
Asia022 Hong Kong
 Japan		A
C
Europe393 England (AQ)
 France (AQ)
 Ireland (AQ)
 Italy
 Spain
 Wales		B
C
C
B
B
A
Oceania220 Australia (AQ)
 New Zealand (AQ)		C
A
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European Qualification

England, France, and Ireland automatically qualified by virtue of their finishes in the 2014 tournament. In addition, there were three other places available for European countries.

Round One
Main articles: 2015 Women's Six Nations Championship and 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship

The top two teams from the combined 2015 and 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship, Italy and Wales, qualified directly. The remaining team, Scotland, proceeded to Round Three.

Position Nation Games Points Tries Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Diff
1 Italy 10505147199-52-10
2 Wales 10406125148-23-8
3 Scotland 10001056373-317-0


Round Two
Main article: 2016 Women's European Championship

The top team from the 2016 Women's European Championship proceeded to Round Three. The tournament took place in Spain in October, 2016, with Spain being declared champions.[2]

Round Three

Scotland and the winner of Round Two, Spain, played a home-and-away series to determine the final European qualifier. Spain won both games.

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2016-11-18 Scotland  5–10  Spain Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow [173/116/18]
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2016-11-26 Spain  15–10  Scotland Estadio Nacional Complutense, Madrid [117/174/19]

Asian Qualification
Main article: Asia Rugby Women's Championship

The top two teams of the 2016 Asia Rugby Women's Championship qualified to the Repechage. The ARWC was contested between Japan, Hong Kong, and Fiji (the winner of the Oceanic qualification competition).

Oceania Qualification

New Zealand and Australia automatically qualified due to their finishes in the 2014 tournament. A third team, Fiji, defeated Papua New Guinea 37–10 in the Oceania qualifier to move on to the repechage.

Main article: Oceania Rugby Women’s Championship
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2016-11-05 (WCQ) Fiji  37-10  Papua New Guinea ANZ National Stadium, Suva [3/1/1]

Repechage

The two best-ranked teams from a final qualifying tournament featuring one team from Oceania and two teams from Asia.[3]

Position Nation Games Points Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Difference
1 Japan 2200758+679
2 Hong Kong 11015327+265
3 Fiji 20027100-930
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2016-12-09 Hong Kong  45-7  Fiji Hong-Kong [-/-/-]
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2016-12-13 Japan  55-0  Fiji Hong-Kong [-/-/-]
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2016-12-17 Japan  20-8  Hong Kong Hong-Kong [-/-/-]

Sources
  1. "Ireland to host Women's Rugby World Cup 2017". World Rugby.
  2. "Reunión comisión delegada" (PDF) (in Spanish). Federación Española de Rugby.
  3. "Canada confirmed for 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup tournament". The Globe And Mail.
  • . RWCWomens.com
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