Portugal and Spain certified Sunday for the lads’s 2027 World Cup in Australia taking Romania and Georgia with them because the quartet reached the semi-finals within the Rugby Europe Championship.
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Portugal scored eight tries as they beat Germany 56-14 in Lisbon.
That end result ensured that, with one spherical of video games nonetheless to play, Portugal and Romania, who gained 31-14 in Belgium on Saturday, will end within the high two locations within the four-team Pool B.
Each will advance to the final 4 within the event for Europe’s second-tier nations.
Earlier on Sunday, Spain gained 43-13 away to Switzerland to create the identical state of affairs in Pool A.
Spain and Georgia, who gained 40-7 at dwelling towards the Netherlands on Saturday, each have two wins from two pool video games and can end within the high two locations.
The 4 losers within the weekend’s matches nonetheless have an opportunity of going to Australia for the World Cup. A fifth berth will likely be up for grabs in a closing qualifying event in November.
Georgia and Romania are common World cup contributors.
Georgia will likely be going to their seventh consecutive World Cup. They’ve gained 5 and drawn certainly one of their 24 matches and by no means completed larger than third of their first-round pool.
Romania have certified for each World Cup however have been barred from enjoying in Japan in 2019 for fielding an ineligible participant in qualifying.
They’ve by no means made it out of the pool levels, profitable six of their 32 matches.
Ineligible gamers value Spain their place at each the 2019 and 2023 World Cups.
Their solely different look on the finals was in 1999, once they misplaced all three of their pool matches.
Portugal have certified twice earlier than for the World Cup.
In 2007 they misplaced all 4 video games, conceding 108 factors to New Zealand, however in France in 2023, they drew with Georgia and beat Fiji.
The expanded 24-team 2027 Rugby World Cup will happen from October 1 to November 13 with Perth internet hosting the opening match and Sydney the ultimate.
Groups certified:
Australia , France, New Zealand, Italy, Eire, South Africa, Scotland, Wales, Fiji, England, Argentina, Japan, Georgia, Spain, Portugal, Romania
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