World Rugby has unveiled the bumper match schedule for WXV, the brand new girls’s worldwide 15s competitors designed to extend the competitiveness, attain and affect of elite girls’s rugby.
The three-level match, which begins this October, will see 27 fixtures performed throughout three host nations bringing the perfect girls’s expertise world wide.
With the complete competitors set to happen over 4 weekends between Friday, 13 October till Saturday, 4 November, followers can have the chance to observe the world’s high groups compete in Dubai, South Africa and New Zealand.
Throughout all ranges, matches will happen on Fridays and Saturdays with a mixture of standalone and double header fixtures, maximising fan attendance and serving to to create an thrilling environment within the host cities.
The match will happen throughout the males’s Rugby World Cup 2023 with match instances complementing one another, guaranteeing followers can take pleasure in what is about to be an exciting interval of elite males’s and ladies’s rugby.
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WXV 1 pleasure throughout New Zealand
The highest three finishers in each the TikTok Ladies’s Six Nations 2023 and World Rugby Pacific 4 Sequence 2023 will head to New Zealand to compete in 9 exams throughout the three match weekends within the hope to be topped WXV 1 champions.
The opening weekend kicks off on Friday, 20 October at Sky Stadium in Wellington with Ladies’s Six Nations winners, England up in opposition to Australia. This shall be adopted on Saturday with Canada dealing with Wales and Pacific 4 Sequence and world champions, New Zealand up in opposition to France.
After travelling to Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium for the second spherical of matches, the match will come to a detailed in an action-packed blockbuster weekend in Auckland on the Go Media Mt Sensible Stadium. Followers will get to see Australia in motion in opposition to Wales on Friday, 3 November adopted by the ultimate double-header that may see France tackle Canada adopted by the much-anticipated repeat of the Rugby World Cup 2021 remaining with England dealing with New Zealand.
Particular person and weekend bundle tickets will go on sale at 10:00 (NZST, GMT+11) on Tuesday, 22 August and may be bought at www.wxvrugby.com.
All 9 exams shall be proven solely on Sky TV New Zealand.
WXV 2 host venues revealed
Six groups will head to Cape City and Stellenbosch in South Africa in October after qualifying for the second degree of the inaugural annual girls’s 15s match.
The primary fixtures of WXV 2023 takes place in WXV 2 on Friday, 13 October at Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch with an thrilling double-header that sees Italy tackle Japan first earlier than Scotland face their hosts South Africa. USA will then deal with Samoa within the standalone match on Saturday, 14 October.
The match then heads to Cape City with the Athlone Stadium internet hosting the second and third rounds of WXV 2. The competitors ends on 27-28 October with three action-packed fixtures throughout the 2 days with Scotland up in opposition to Japan and South Africa versus Samoa on the Friday and USA dealing with Italy bringing WXV 2 to a detailed on the Saturday.
Loads of motion set for WXV 3 in Dubai
Dubai’s iconic The Sevens Stadium has been confirmed because the venue for WXV 3 with the competitors mirroring the match-days of WXV 2 throughout October.
It’s a double-header first up in Dubai with Fiji set to face Colombia and Eire up in opposition to Kazakhstan on Friday, 13 October. The subsequent day sees European qualifier Spain pitted in opposition to Kenya.
The ultimate weekend kicks off on Friday, 27 October with Kazakhstan in opposition to Fiji and Kenya versus Colombia’s Las Tucanes. The ultimate WXV 3 match sees Eire deal with Spain the following day.
World Rugby Chief of Ladies’s Rugby, Sally Horrox mentioned: “WXV represents the beginning of a brand new period for ladies’s rugby with the three-level match mannequin offering alternatives for the perfect athletes world wide to point out their expertise on the worldwide stage. We’ve seen the fast growth of the ladies’s sport lately and WXV will push it to a different degree once more.
“We’re actually happy with the thrilling array of fixtures on provide and I’ve little question we’re in for an exciting competitors with some exhilarating matchups on the pitch set to observe.
“An enormous thanks to all our hosts. We are able to’t wait to go to your nations and see the world’s greatest gamers compete in these unbelievable venues and an enormous congratulations to all of the groups which have certified. The stage is now set and we stay up for many memorable moments forward throughout October and November.
WXV is being supported by companions Mastercard, Capgemini and Gallagher, with World Rugby additionally injecting multi-million-pound funding funding over an preliminary two-year interval within the dash to an expanded 16-team Rugby World Cup 2025 in England.
