FOUR YEARS ON from Ireland hosting the Women’s Rugby World Cup, Eden Park in Auckland has been announced as the venue for the final of the tournament next year.
A decade after hosting the Rugby World Cup decider when the All Blacks defeated France, the largest sports stadium in New Zealand will host the final of the women’s tournament on 16 October 2021.
The Auckland venue will also host the semi-finals and bronze medal game for the tournament which has been officially launched. It will run from 18 September to 16 October next year with the pool games and quarter-finals to be staged at Waitakere Stadium and Northland Events Centre.
Ireland have missed out on automatic qualification for the tournament but will still hope to be in the draw. They take part in September’s four team qualification tournament which will also include Italy, Scotland and the winners of the 2020 Rugby Europe Women’s Championship.
New Zealand, England, France, USA, Canada, Australia, Wales, South Africa and Fiji are already qualified with three more spots to be filled.
The dates for Rugby World Cup 2021 have been announced:
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18 Sept - Pool matches
23 Sept - Pool matches
28 Sept - Pool matches
3 Oct - Quarter-finals
9 Oct - Semi-finals
16 Oct - Bronze match + FINAL https://t.co/DGqZbWsXmv #RWC2021 pic.twitter.com/WKlMXLMa9U
Micheál Schlingermann grew up in County Mayo and represented his County in the 2009 All Ireland minor football final at Croke Park against Armagh.
And your point is ….
heineken ….
Poor performance from City.
Alan Bennett was a big loss in defence but credit to Sligo came to Cork and got a unexpected win.
Huge game against Bohs on Friday night.
Grimes deserves a chance in goal now for City!
Schlingermann and cretaro are both Irish with Irish accents but they are not Irish names. Anyone know where those two families are originally from?
Cretaro’s father is from Italy
Cretaro is from Tubbercurry Co. Sligo and Schlingerman is from kiltimagh Co. Mayo
Would have been huge game if City had won. League gone now, need to concentrate on trying to finish 2nd and have a good cup run.Dundalk way ahead of City in class.Maybe 3 or 4 years time might start catching them but not at the moment. Hope there won,t be any “european hangover” excuses.Sligo better team tonight, 2 chances 2 goals. City 4 or 5 chances no goals. Bad sign when City fans begging for penalties; if you can;t score from open play its not saying much.Negative rant i know but its hard to be positve leaving the Cross tonight.
Jesus they’re only 6 points behind. They also have a game in hand. With Dundalk having European football to concentrate on possibly they’ll slip up in the league and maybe cork might seize their chance. But my point is…..the league is far from over.
I know Sean,but why should we have to wait for someone to “slip up” or be tired from european games? I,d like to see City win it on merit, fair scrap from start to finish.A bit old school maybe but thats my opinion. Even if they win it now, people will say its only because Dundalk had so many european games.
Srfc
That spoofer Caulfield is the one holding Cork back. He’s a non league manager. They have the players, but City will win nothing as long as he’s in charge.
What would any other manager do any differently?