The 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup was the seventh edition of the

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, and the sixth held in Europe. The World Cup Final took place on 17 August. All of the pool games for the World Cup took place at the Centre National du Rugby (CNR) in

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and Marcoussis Rugby Club with the French union adopting the concept of restricting the tournament to one or two locations as in the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup in

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. Marcoussis is about 20 miles south of

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. The

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s of the tournament also saw matches played at the CNR in Marcoussis, with the semi-finals, Bronze Final and Final taking place at

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in the French capital – home of

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. The matches took place on 1, 5, 9, and 13 August with the final played on 17 August. The tournament format was the same as in 2010, with 12 teams split into three pools of four. The pool allocation draw took place once all 12 teams were confirmed.

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won the final 21-9 against Canada on 17 August.

Bidding process

On 27 August 2009 the

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(IRB; now known as World Rugby) announced that it was inviting bids to host the 2014 event. Unions had until 30 October 2009 to express an interest with the chosen host being announced on 12 May 2010. The announcement was an important development in the history of women's rugby as the IRB had never previously announced a competition to host a Women's World Cup with such publicity, nor so far ahead of the event. The chosen hosts for 2014 would also have had four years to prepare – twice as long as any previous host. The announcement was also significant because, for the first time, the IRB included the "unofficial"

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and

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World Cups in their official list of previous tournaments. On 21 December 2009, the IRB announced the four nations that formally applied to host the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup: *

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(bid subsequently withdrawn, in favour of Samoa) *

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However, after delaying the announcement until September 2010, the IRB eventually announced that, due to problems with the existing bids, they were reopening applications. Then, on 30 June 2011 the IRB announced that the tournament would be held in France.

Qualifying

France, as the host nation, qualified automatically. The top three teams from the

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tournament, New Zealand, England, and Australia, also qualified automatically. Canada and the United States qualified due to there being no interest from other North or South American unions.

Qualified teams

Match officials

In April 2014 the IRB announced a panel of 14 match officials for the tournament, including eight referees and six assistant.

provided two of the referees in the form of Jess Beard and Nicky Inwood, while there will be one each from

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and

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provided two assistant referees with the others coming from

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and

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. Nicky Inwood, Sherry Trumbull and Clare Daniels were selected for 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup, which took place in

. Indeed, Inwood and Daniels also refereed at the 2006 edition in

. In August 2014, it was announced that

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referee

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would adjudicate the

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. ;Referees (8) * Jess Beard * Leah Berard *

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* Nicky Inwood * Marlize Jordaan * Helen O'Reilly *

* Sherry Trumbull ;Assistant referees (6) *

Beatrice Benvenuti Maria Beatrice Benvenuti (born 1993) is an Italian rugby union referee. Benvenuti has refereed at the 2016 Olympic Games, the Women's Rugby World Cup in 2014 and 2017 and the Women's Six Nations Championship in 2018 and 2019. She has also refere ...

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Clare Daniels Clare Daniels (born ) is an English international rugby union referee and is the world's most capped female Test referee. She has played scrum-half for Tor RFC in Glastonbury for a few years in the late 1990s before the team disbanded and Dani ...

* Marie Lematte *

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* Alex Pratt

Squads

Pool stage

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The pool draw took place on 30 October 2013 at Hotel de Ville, Paris. The twelve qualified teams were organised into four bands: Band 1: New Zealand, England, Australia
Band 2: Canada, USA, France
Band 3: Ireland, Wales, Spain
Band 4: Kazakhstan, Samoa, South Africa Each pool was a single round-robin of six games, in which each team played one match against each of the other teams in the same pool. Teams were awarded four points for a win, two points for a draw and none for a defeat of more than seven points. A team scoring four or more tries in one match earned a bonus point, as did teams that lost by seven points or fewer.

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Finals

Knockout Rankings

At the completion of the pool stage, teams were ranked first according to their position within their pool and then by competition points. The top four teams progressed to the tournament semi-finals, teams ranked 5–8 progressed to the 5th to 8th play-offs, and the teams ranked 9–12 progressed to the 9th to 12th play-offs.

Tie Breakers

Ties on competition points were broken in the following order:
1. Winner of the match between the two teams (does not apply to teams in different pools);
2. Difference between points scored and points conceded;
3. Difference between tries scored and tries conceded;
4. Most points scored;
5. Most tries scored;
6. Coin toss.

Rankings Play-offs 9 to 12

Semi-finals 11th Place Playoff 9th Place Playoff

Rankings Play-offs 5 to 8

Semi-finals 7th Place Playoff 5th Place Playoff

Semi-Finals and Final

Semi-finals 3rd Place Playoff Final

Statistics

Points scorers

Try scorers

Discipline

1 Red Card * Soteria Pulumu (5-match suspension) Suspension Following Citing *

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(2-week suspension) in match against New Zealand * Mandisa Williams (16-week suspension) in match against Australia 2 Yellow Cards * Celeste Adonis * Oxana Shadrina *

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* Shona-Leah Weston 1 Yellow Card * Chloe Buttler * Helen Collins * Jenny Davies * Olivia DeMerchant * Linda Itunu * Natalya Kamendrovskaya * Mary Jane Kirby * Caroline Ladagnous * Rita Lilii * Michelle Milward * Taliilagi Mefi * Claire Molloy * Marlie Packer * Shannon Parry * Rebecca Smyth * Shaina Turley * Sarah Walsh * Brittany Waters

References

External links

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