The 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup was the eighth edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup and was held in

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in August 2017.

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became the 2017 champions by beating

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41–32 in the final on 26 August. Matches were held in

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and

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. The pool stages were held at

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with the semi-finals and finals held at Queen's University and

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in Belfast. The tournament took place three rather than four years after the previous Women's Rugby World Cup because

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wanted to move away from clashing with other events. The event returned to a four-year cycle after 2017. The 2017 tournament set attendance records for a Women's World Cup. The tournament drew 45,412 fans over 30 matches. The final was played in front of a crowd of 17,115, and the pool matches sold out. This was the last edition of the tournament under the "Women's Rugby World Cup" name. On 21 August 2019,

announced that all future World Cups, whether for men or women, would be officially titled as the "Rugby World Cup", distinguished only by year and not by gender. As such, the 2021 edition in New Zealand bore the title of " Rugby World Cup 2021".

Bidding process

On 2 March 2015, it was announced that the

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had submitted a bid to host to Women's

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in August 2017. The Irish bid was the only one made to host the event. On 13 May 2015 it was announced that

would host the event in

and

. On 4 June 2015 it was announced that Garrett Tubridy had been appointed tournament director for the event.

Qualifying

Ireland, the host nation, had already qualified automatically by finishing in the top seven teams at the

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tournament before being announced as hosts. A further six teams (England, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United States and Australia) qualified automatically as top seven finishers at the 2014 tournament. Italy and Wales qualified as the top two teams across the 2015 and 2016 Women's Six Nations excluding England, France, and Ireland. The remaining three qualifiers (Hong Kong, Spain and Japan) were determined by the end of 2016.

Qualified teams

Match officials

In March 2017,

announced the 9 referees and 5 assistant referees for the tournament. In August 2017, it was announced that Irish referee Joy Neville would adjudicate the

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. ;Referees (9) * Tim Baker * Aimee Barrett-Theron * Graham Cooper * Sara Cox * Sean Gallagher * Claire Hodnett * Joy Neville * Alhambra Nievas * Amy Perrett ;Assistants (5) * Beatrice Benvenuti * Rose Labreche * Marie Lematte * Helen O'Reilly * Ian Tempest

Squads

Pool stage

The pool draw took place on 9 November 2016 at Belfast. 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, one point for a loss by one to seven points, and none for a defeat by more than seven points. A team scoring four or more tries in one match scored a bonus point. The tournament comprised 12 teams in three pools of four with the pool winners plus the best runner-up progressing to the semi-finals. All times are local,

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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 (positions 1 to 3 were the pool winners, positions 4 to 6 were the pool runners up, etc.) 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

If teams were tied on pool points they were ranked by rules applied in the following order –
1. The team that won the match between the two teams was ranked first (does not apply to teams in different pools)
2. If the teams were still level, the difference between points scored and points conceded was used to rank the teams
3. Difference between tries scored and tries conceded was used to rank the teams
4. Most points scored
5. Most tries scored
6. Coin toss

Play-offs: 9th to 12th

---- ;Ninth to twelfth semifinals ;Eleventh place playoff ;Ninth place playoff

Play-offs 5th to 8th

---- ;Fifth to eighth semifinals ;Seventh place playoff ;Fifth place playoff

Finals

The team ranked first after the pool stages played the team ranked fourth and the team ranked second played the team ranked third. ----

Semifinals

Third place playoff

Final

Statistics

Source:

Points scorers

Try scorers

Final classification

Broadcasting

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References

External links

Official Site
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Bidding process

Qualifying

Qualified teams

Match officials

Squads

Pool stage

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Finals

Knockout Rankings

Tie breakers

Play-offs: 9th to 12th

Play-offs 5th to 8th

Finals

Semifinals

Third place playoff

Final

Statistics

Points scorers

Try scorers

Final classification

Broadcasting

See also

References

External links