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Rugby World Cup 2011 Guide

The 2011 Rugby World Cup will be the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. At a meeting of the International Rugby Board (IRB) held in Dublin on 17 November 2005, New Zealand was selected as the host country.

The Rugby World Cup 2011 will kick-off on September 9th 2011, in Auckland, with the first game between hosts, New Zealand and their neighbours Tonga. This is the first of 40 group games, across Pools A, B, C and D, which will last until October 2nd 2011.

The event is scheduled to be played over seven weekends from the weekend starting 10 September and culminating the weekend starting 22 October 2011. The weekend of the final was chosen so it falls on a long weekend caused by the New Zealand public holiday of Labour Day (Monday, 24 October 2011).The final is scheduled to be played in Auckland at Eden Park.

So heres how its going to play out. There are four Pools, each with five teams and they are:

Pool A

  • New Zealand
  • France
  • Canada
  • Tonga
  • Japan

Pool B

  • England
  • Scotland
  • Romania
  • Argentina
  • Georgia

Pool C

  • Australia
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • USA
  • Russia

Pool D

  • South Africa
  • Wales
  • Samoa
  • Fiji
  • Namibia

Simply click on the name of any of the teams above to get a more in-dept analysis of the team and its chances of progressing through the competition as well as all of the latest match odds for that team.

Each team plays the other twice, accumulating bonus points as well as points for winning, drawing, even losing as they go. The top two teams from each of the four pools reach the knock out stages which are:

Quarter Finals: 08/10 18:00 Winner C V Runner-up D Wellington

08/10 20:30 Winner B V Runner-up A Auckland

09/10 18:00 Winner D V Runner-up C Wellington

09/10 20:30 Winner A V Runner-up B Auckland

Semi Finals 15/10 21:00 Winner QF 1 V Winner QF 2 Auckland

16/10 21:00 Winner QF 3 V Winner QF 4 Auckland

3rd Place Play-Off 21/10 20:30 Loser SF 1 V Loser SF 2 Auckland

Final 23/10 21:00 Winner SF 1 V Winner SF 2 Auckland

For those of you who just want to back your favourite team to win World Cup outright then all of the latest and best odds are below and remember, as your team progresses, the odds will almost certainly get shorter!

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