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    Posted: 22 Aug 2023 at 11:13
Rugby World Cup 2025: Eight host venues named for tournament in England

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Twickenham has been named among eight venues across England to host the women's 2025 Rugby World Cup.

A mix of rugby and football stadiums will stage matches, with 82,000-seater Twickenham earmarked for the final.

Sandy Park in Exeter, Salford Community Stadium in Manchester and Franklin's Gardens in Northampton are all chosen.

Brighton's Amex Stadium, Sunderland's Stadium of Light, the York Community Stadium and Bristol's dual-purpose Ashton Gate are the football grounds.

The tournament will run from 22 August until 27 September 2025.

Sunderland's Stadium of Light is the second biggest venue behind Twickenham with a capacity of 49,000.
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Yorks ground is also a Rugby stadium. 
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Originally posted by Richard Lowther Richard Lowther wrote:

Yorks ground is also a Rugby stadium. 

A rugby league stadium. So no wonder it wasn't counted as a rugby ground! ;) (tiaj)
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Salford Community Stadium, not in Manchester but in the big city next door.
I wonder if they think rugby fans are incapable in some subtle way.
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Originally posted by MikeGC MikeGC wrote:

Salford Community Stadium, not in Manchester but in the big city next door.
I wonder if they think rugby fans are incapable in some subtle way.
Technically it is in Greater Manchester. To the people not from the north west, the distinction is difficult to grasp. But then most people from around here think London essentially includes anything from Reading to Dover.
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It has an M postcode, and that's good enough for most folk.  Poor old Salford struggles for visibility due to the dominance of big brother Manchester next door.
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A bit like Westminster,  only without the power.
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Originally posted by jimbojetset jimbojetset wrote:

Originally posted by MikeGC MikeGC wrote:

Salford Community Stadium, not in Manchester but in the big city next door.
I wonder if they think rugby fans are incapable in some subtle way.

Technically it is in Greater Manchester. To the people not from the north west, the distinction is difficult to grasp. But then most people from around here think London essentially includes anything from Reading to Dover.
London essentially includes anything from Reading to Dover

do you mean to say that this isn’t true ?
Gosh, I thought it was all "that London"
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BBC Sport to show 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup

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BBC Sport will have exclusive rights to broadcast every game of the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup in England.

Select matches will be shown on the BBC's linear channels, while every game will be available to watch live on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.

BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra will also broadcast radio commentary on the tournament, which begins on 22 August.

Sunderland's Stadium of Light will host the opening game, while Twickenham will stage the final on 27 September.

Hosts England are one of 10 teams, including Ireland, to have already qualified for the World Cup.

Scotland and Wales can confirm their places later this year at WXV, which will also be shown across the BBC.
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Hosts England to face USA in World Cup opener

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England will play the USA in the opening match of next year's Women's Rugby World Cup.

The Red Roses will get the tournament under way at Sunderland's Stadium of Light on 22 August.

The fixture list also sees Scotland and Wales face each other in their Pool B opener at the Salford Community Stadium in a double-header with Australia and Samoa.

Ireland, meanwhile, play world champions New Zealand in their final Pool C fixture on 7 September in Brighton.

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Home nations fixtures 2025

England - Pool A

v USA - Friday, 22 August, Sunderland, 19:30 BST

v Samoa - Saturday, 30 August, Northampton, 17:00 BST

v Australia - Saturday, 6 September, Brighton, 17:00 BST

Scotland - Pool B

v Wales - Saturday, 23 August, Manchester, 14:45 BST

v Fiji - Saturday, 30 August, Manchester, 14:45 BST

v Canada - Saturday, 6 September, Exeter, 12:00 BST

Wales - Pool B

v Scotland - Saturday, 23 August, Manchester, 14:45 BST

v Canada - Saturday, 30 August, Manchester, 12:00 BST

v Fiji - Saturday, 6 September, Exeter, 14:45 BST

Ireland - Pool C

v Japan - Sunday, 24 August, Northampton, 12:00 BST

v Spain - Sunday, 31 August, Northampton, 12:00 BST

v New Zealand - Sunday, 7 September, Brighton, 14:45 BST
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Can someone tell the BBC, Salford is not Manchester.
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Originally posted by Camquin Camquin wrote:

Can someone tell the BBC, Salford is not Manchester.
I'll write to them.  What's their address...?
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Originally posted by Mark W-J Mark W-J wrote:

Originally posted by Camquin Camquin wrote:

Can someone tell the BBC, Salford is not Manchester.
I'll write to them.  What's their address...?

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Originally posted by Camquin Camquin wrote:

Can someone tell the BBC, Salford is not Manchester.

The clue is in the name!
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England to face France & Spain in World Cup warm-ups

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England will play two warm-up matches before their home World Cup begins later this summer.

The Red Roses will host Spain at Welford Road in Leicester on 3 August, before facing France in Mont-de-Marsan a week later.

John Mitchell's side beat France by just a point in a final-game thriller last month to secure a fourth consecutive Women's Six Nations Grand Slam.

If England and France top their World Cup pool and win their quarter-finals they will meet in the last four in Bristol.

Spain won the WXV 3 tournament last autumn to qualify for the Women's World Cup for the first time since 2017.

England play the United States in the opening match of the tournament in Sunderland on 22 August.
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New, bigger Women's Rugby World Cup trophy revealed

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A new Women's Rugby World Cup trophy has been unveiled to mark 100 days before the start of the 2025 tournament in England.

Its design has been chosen by nine former world champions including England's 2014 winning captain Katy Daley-Mclean.

With the previous trophy at times criticised for being small, the new trophy is 38cm tall and weighs 4.5kg.

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The new silverware is actually the third Women's Rugby World Cup trophy since the tournament started in 1991.

It will now embark on a three-week tour of the eight host cities and towns: Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Exeter, London, Manchester, Northampton, Sunderland and York.

The oval silhouette design is crafted in sterling silver with 24-carat gold and retains the twin handles of the original trophy.

The nine world champions who helped design it alongside Daley-Mclean were England's Sarah Hunter, Rachael Burford and Gill Burns, with New Zealand's Fiao'o Fa'amausili, Monalisa Codling, Farah Palmer, Anna Richards and Melodie Robinson.

Mclean said: "With the potential on this tournament being the biggest Women's World Cup yet, it seemed an appropriate time for a new trophy.

"This trophy hopefully connects the past to the present allowing all to remember the trailblazing of those that came before us."

The first trophy was won by the United States in 1991 and England in 1994 before it went missing for 15 years.

It was eventually found during a clean-out of a rugby administrator's parent's attic.

With the original trophy lost, a new one was made for the 1998 World Cup.

This trophy would be presented at seven tournaments in total including the last World Cup hosted and won by New Zealand in 2022.

The second trophy has been nicknamed 'Nancy' by New Zealand's women who have lifted it six times - an affectionate reference to World War II hero Nancy Wake.

Wake was a New Zealand woman who was living and working in Paris when the war broke out and joined the French Resistance.

She constantly eluded capture earning the nickname 'The White Mouse'. This trophy was also won once by England in 2014, coincidentally in Paris.
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