2025 Women's Rugby World Cup Pool B
Pool B of the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup will begin in August 2025. The pool includes Canada, Fiji, Scotland and Wales.[1]
Teams
The draw for the pool stage took place on 17 October 2024 in London.[2] A seeding system was used for the draw, with teams allocated a seed based on their World Rugby Women's World Rankings as of 14 October 2024. The top four teams in the rankings were placed into band 1 and prepopulated into the first position in each pool. The remaining 12 teams were drawn into bands 2, 3, and 4 based on their rankings and drawn one by one.[2]
| Pos. | Team | Band | Confederation | Method of qualification |
Date of qualification |
Apps. | Last | Previous best performance |
World Rugby Rankings[3] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 October 2024[N 1] | 18 August 2025[N 2] | |||||||||
| B1 | Canada | 1 | North America | Top 4 at 2021 RWC | 30 October 2022 | 10th | 2021 | Runners-up (2014) | 2 | |
| B2 | Scotland | 2 | Europe | 2024 WXV 2 | 30 October 2024 | 7th | 2021 | 5th (1994) | 7 | |
| B3 | Wales | 3 | Europe | 2024 WXV 2 | 11 October 2024 | 9th | 2021 | Fourth place (1994) | 10 | |
| B4 | Fiji | 4 | Oceania | Oceania 1 | 2 June 2024 | 2nd | 2021 | Pool stage (2021) | 17 | |
Standings
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | TF | TA | TB | LB | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Scotland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Wales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Fiji | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First match(es) will be played: 23 August 2025. Source: World Rugby[4]
Rules for classification: Pool stage tiebreakers
Rules for classification: Pool stage tiebreakers
Matches
The match schedule was confirmed by World Rugby on 22 October 2024. The first match of pool B is Scotland vs Wales.[5][6]
Scotland vs Wales
| 23 August 2025 14:45 BST (UTC+1) |
| Scotland | v | Wales |
| Salford Community Stadium, Manchester Referee: Maggie Cogger-Orr (New Zealand)[7] |
Canada vs Fiji
| 23 August 2025 17:30 BST (UTC+1) |
| Canada | v | Fiji |
| York Community Stadium, York Referee: Aurélie Groizeleau (France)[7] |
Canada vs Wales
| 30 August 2025 12:00 BST (UTC+1) |
| Canada | v | Wales |
| Salford Community Stadium, Manchester Referee: Hollie Davidson (Scotland)[7] |
Scotland vs Fiji
| 30 August 2025 14:45 BST (UTC+1) |
| Scotland | v | Fiji |
| Salford Community Stadium, Manchester Referee: Lauren Jenner (Italy)[7] |
Canada vs Scotland
| 6 September 2025 12:00 BST (UTC+1) |
| Canada | v | Scotland |
| Sandy Park, Exeter Referee: Aimee Barrett-Theron (South Africa)[7] |
Wales vs Fiji
| 6 September 2025 14:45 BST (UTC+1) |
| Wales | v | Fiji |
| Sandy Park, Exeter Referee: Kat Roche (United States)[7] |
Notes
References
- ^ "Rugby World Cup 2025 draw: England in pool with Australia, USA and Samoa". BBC Sport. 17 October 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ a b "World Rugby confirms draw and match schedule release dates for Women's Rugby World Cup England 2025". Rugby World Cup. 9 October 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
- ^ "Women's and Men's Rankings". World Rugby. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
- ^ "Pools | Women's Rugby World Cup 2025". Rugby World Cup. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
- ^ "Wales to kick-off World Cup campaign against Scotland". BBC Sport. 22 October 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
- ^ Orchard, Sara (22 October 2024). "Hosts England to face USA in World Cup opener". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f "Match Officials Appointments | Women's Rugby World Cup 2025". World Rugby. 9 July 2025. Retrieved 9 July 2025.