2033 Rugby World Cup

Twelfth edition of the Rugby World Cup for women

2033 Rugby World Cup
Tournament details

Host nation	United States
Dates	–
No. of nations	16
← 2029 2037 →

The 2033 Women's Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be the twelfth edition of the women's Rugby World Cup. The tournament will be held in the United States.^[1] This will be the second Women’s Rugby World Cup to be held in the Americas. The previous one was held in Canada in 2006 with New Zealand emerging as the champions.

Host nation selection

The United States was the only bidder for the tournament. The US was announced as the host nation on May 12, 2022.

2033 Rugby World Cup
bidding results
Nation	Votes
United States	Acclamation

Development & preparations

Candidate host cities

Seattle

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Diego

Phoenix

Denver

Minneapolis

Chicago

Kansas City

Dallas

Austin

Houston

New Orleans

Miami

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Shortlisted locations

A total of 24 cities throughout the United States have expressed interest in hosting matches. Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C. have all expressed interest.^[2]

Qualifying

Tournament hosts, the United States qualify automatically. They will be joined by the teams that reached the semi-final stage of the 2029 Women's Rugby World Cup, who also qualified automatically.

Qualified teams
Region	Team	Qualification method	Previous apps	Previous best result
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America	United States	Hosts	TBC	Champions (1991)
Oceania
South America

Notes

^1 – Post warm-up matches

References

^ "U.S. to host Rugby World Cups in 2031, 2033". Associated Press. May 12, 2022. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
^ "US President Biden confirms support for Rugby World Cup bids in 2031 and 2033". Archived from the original on 2022-04-21. Retrieved 2022-05-12.