2023 Rugby World Cup – Europe qualification

Qualifying for the 2023 Rugby World Cup for European Rugby began in March 2021, where 6 teams will compete for two direct qualification spots into the final tournament and for a place in the Final Qualification Tournament.

2023 Rugby World Cup – Europe qualification
Tournament details
Dates6 March 2021 – TBD
No. of nations6
← 2019
2027 →

Format

The Rugby Europe Championship, controlled by Rugby Europe, is the regional qualification tournament for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France. The winner and runners-up of the two-year cycle, automatically qualify to the tournament as Europe 1 and Europe 2 respectively while the third team qualifies Final qualification tournament as Europe 3.

Entrants

Six teams competed during for the European qualifiers for the 2023 Rugby World Cup; teams World Rankings are prior to the first European qualification matches on 6 March.

Teams in Bold have previously played in a World cup.

NationRankBegan playQualifying status
 England3N/AQualified with Top 12 finish at 2019 World Cup
 France4N/AQualified as Hosts
 Georgia126 March 2021
 Ireland6N/AQualified with Top 12 finish at 2019 World Cup
 Italy14N/AQualified with Top 12 finish at 2019 World Cup
 Netherlands2426 June 2021
 Portugal206 March 2021
 Romania196 March 2021
 Russia216 March 2021
 Scotland8N/AQualified with Top 12 finish at 2019 World Cup
 Spain1714 March 2021
 Wales7N/AQualified with Top 12 finish at 2019 World Cup

Rugby Europe Championship

Table

For the Rugby Europe Championship teams, results are considered on a 2-year aggregate from the 2021 and 2022 seasons; the winner and runner-up teams automatically qualify for the tournament as Europe 1 and Europe 2 individually, leaving the team in third place to qualify for the Final qualification tournament as Europe 3.

Qualified as Europe 1
Qualified as Europe 2
Advances to Final Qualification Tournament as Europe 3
Pos. Team Games Points Tries TBP LBP GS Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Diff For Against Diff
1 Georgia550015373+80226+1630124
2 Romania5302136104+32169+711014
3 Portugal5302196139+572520+511014
4 Spain5203164109+552114+722012
5 Russia520397142−451118−71009
6 Netherlands500573252−1791038−280000
Source - [1]
Points were awarded to the teams as follows:
Win – 4 points | Draw – 2 points | At least 3 more tries than opponent – 1 point | Loss within 7 points – 1 point | Completing a Grand Slam – 1 point[2]

2021

2022

See also

References
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