Ireland-Rugby.com: The home of Irish Rugby » womens world cup 2010 http://www.ireland-rugby.com The home of Irish Rugby Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:56:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ireland draw England (Women’s World Cup) http://www.ireland-rugby.com/index.php/732/ireland-draw-england-womens-world-cup/ http://www.ireland-rugby.com/index.php/732/ireland-draw-england-womens-world-cup/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:24:36 +0000 Ireland Rugby http://www.ireland-rugby.com/?p=732 The pools have been announced for the 2010 Women’s Rugby World Cup in England, the games will be played from August 20 to September 5th and feature three pools of four teams.

The seeded sides in their individual pools are:

  • New Zealand, defending champions.
  • England, hosts and 2006 runners-up.
  • France, 2006 bronze medallists.

The qualification process saw 16 teams complete for those six places outside of those automatically qualifed.

Direct Qualifiers
New Zealand, England, France, Canada, USA and South Africa all qualified directly,

Six Nations Qualifiers
Wales and Ireland

Regional Qualifiers:
Sweden and Scotland – European qualifiers
Australia – the Oceania qualifier.
Kazakhstan from Asia.

The pools are:

Pool A: New Zealand, Wales, Australia, South Africa
Pool B: England, USA, Ireland, Kazakhstan
Pool C: France, Canada, Scotland, Sweden

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