Talk:Rugby World Cup qualification

Participation in 1991 WC

Hi, the figure gives a wrong number for 1991, 1991 Rugby World Cup qualifying indicates correctly that 25 teams competed during the qualification, add 8 qualified teams, the total is then 33. Dingy 05:46, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Automatic qualification rules

This article seems to list the qualification format incorrectly.

Presently, the 8 quarter-finalists automatically qualify along with the 3rd placed nations in each of the 4 pools. So that's 12 nations automatically qualifying for 2011.

This is confirmed on the IRB's Rugby World Cup site - I have linked to an article which states this in the final paragraph: http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/news/newsid=2013744.html#the+quarter+final+picture

Chrisc21 (talk) 16:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]