Annual World Rugby Pacific Four Series to kick-off in 2021 with Canada and USA competing Australia and New Zealand to join from 2022 Mastercard is the founding Global Partner of the 2021 and 2022 Pacific Four Series tournaments Cross-regional series provides consistent high-performance competition for elite women’s international teams, in line with game-changing women’s strategic
Nicky Ponsford has been Head of Performance to England women’s rugby for the last nineteen years, so news that she will be seconded to World Rugby in a similar capacity is inevitably a surprise. I once asked her why there wasn’t a woman overall in charge of women’s rugby in England. She replied that the
Nicky Ponsford to join World Rugby on a two-year secondment from the RFU starting in July 2021 World Rugby Executive Committee approves an increase of £600,000 to the initial £2 million RWC High Performance Preparation Fund RWC 2021 High Performance Investment Fund will benefit qualified teams and those still within the qualification process World Rugby
World Rugby Sevens Repechage draw to take place at 10:00 BST (GMT+1) on Tuesday, 11 May Monaco set to host the final Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification event on 19-20 June 12 women’s teams and 10 men’s teams to compete for the final two women’s and one men’s places at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics Fans can
Richie McCaw and Jessy Trémoulière take home 15s Player of the Decade Awards Portia Woodman and Jerry Tuwai win Sevens Player of the Decade categories Jamie Heaslip and Portia Woodman tries voted as best of the decade Two stellar 15s Teams of the Decade selected by the World Rugby Awards panel highlight the best performers
RWC 2021 coach interns to be fully embedded with national squad management teams RWC 2021 Coaching Internship Programme is supported by World Rugby, as part of IOC international development grant Fijiana prepare to compete in their first ever Rugby World Cup World Rugby and the Fiji Rugby Union today announced former Australian international and Melbourne
Rugby fans around the world will have a say in the World Rugby Awards Special Edition by selecting the best players and tries of the decade (2010-19) Six fans’ choice categories open today with nominees selected from previous World Rugby Award winners Votes can be cast on World Rugby’s website from this Thursday, 15 October until Sunday,
World Rugby Awards to take place in an innovate virtual format on Monday, 7 December, 2020 Special edition will recognise rugby’s front liners who showed great solidarity during the pandemic and honour the best from the last decade of rugby (2010-19) Rugby fans around the world to get involved and decide winners in six new
SBC World Rugby Sevens Series Award winners to be announced on 21 September Twenty-four winners to be announced across six men’s and women’s award categories Nine unions nominated across the men’s and women’s UL Mark of Excellence Award and Cigna Pressure Play Awards Fan voting opens for Cigna Pressure Play and UL Mark of Excellence
Transformational Rugby World Cup 2021 Coaching Internship Programme opens for all RWC 2021 participating unions Programme will create quality deployment opportunities for aspiring elite female coaches in high-performance environments Selected participants to be fully embedded for 12 months in RWC 2021 national squad management teams Programme aims to address the lack of female coaches at
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