{"id":3981,"date":"2014-12-26T15:09:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T15:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2014-12-26T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T15:09:46","slug":"qualification-process-confirmed-womens-rugby-world-cup-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/qualification-process-confirmed-womens-rugby-world-cup-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualification process confirmed for Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/888.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/888.jpg\" alt=\"888\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/888.jpg 640w, https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/888-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Qualification process confirmed for Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup 2017<\/p>\n<p>World Rugby has confirmed the qualification process for the next Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup, to be held in 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Following a comprehensive review of this year\u2019s successful tournament, the World Rugby Council agreed that the top seven teams from Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup 2014 will automatically qualify, meaning reigning champions England, Canada, France, Ireland, New Zealand, USA and Australia are confirmed for the 2017 tournament. <\/p>\n<p>The additional five teams will be determined through the following qualification process: <\/p>\n<p>The two best ranked 6 Nations Women\u2019s teams (outside of those teams already qualified) from the combined results of the 2015 and 2016 Women\u2019s 6 Nations tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of a home and away playoff match between the lowest ranked side in the Women\u2019s 6 Nations (combined 2015 and 2016 results and outside of the teams already qualified) and the Rugby Europe Women\u2019s champion.<\/p>\n<p>The two best ranked teams from a final qualifying tournament featuring South Africa, one team from Oceania and two teams from Asia. The qualification process for the Oceania and Asian teams into the final qualification tournament will be determined at a later date. <\/p>\n<p>The host selection tender and the qualifying process was ratified by the World Rugby Council at their meeting in London last month. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"354\" height=\"210\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tkTok0MJGpk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Head of Rugby World Cup Alan Gilpin said: \u201cThe record-breaking success, appeal and excitement of Paris 2014 underscored just why women\u2019s rugby is one of the world\u2019s fastest-growing team sports. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re happy that the qualification process for the 2017 tournament is robust and will ensure the 12 best teams in the world will be competing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe host selection tender process has already stimulated significant interest, and I predict a fantastic Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup in three years\u2019 time, wherever it\u2019s held.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The tender process to host Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup was launched in November and World Rugby Council will make a decision on the host union at a scheduled meeting in May 2015. <\/p>\n<p>The tournament, which was won by England in Paris last August, will move to 2017 to maximise synergy with the Olympic and Rugby World Cup Sevens cycles. The event will return to a four-year cycle after 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualification process confirmed for Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup 2017 World Rugby has confirmed the qualification process for the next Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup, to be held in 2017. Following a comprehensive review of this year\u2019s successful tournament, the World Rugby Council agreed that the top seven teams from Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup 2014 will automatically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[1691,1442,1693,1304,26,122],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-1691","tag-confirmed","tag-process","tag-qualification","tag-rugby","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}