Spain presents the shirt with which it will play in the 2027 World Cup
The Royal Spanish Rugby Federation (RFER) presented this Wednesday the T-shirt with which he will compete in the 2027 Rugby World Cup to be played in Australiaa tournament to which Los Leones – as the national team is known – will return next fall after 28 years unclassified.
In an event that took place at the new federative headquarters in Madrid, the president Juan Carlos Martín, “Hansen”and the head of the air conditioning company Haier, new sponsor of the men’s team, Fidel Espiñeirastated that they hope that this agreement, which is “one for one”, “will be a long-term collaboration.”
In 2025, Spain achieved a place for Australia 2027 after not having qualified for the highest event in this sport since it did so for Wales in the 1999 World Cup.
The RFER has also presented the candidacy to organize the 2035 World Cup for which it competes with Argentina and Japan.
The Lions will debut the new shirt next Saturday in Madrid when they face the Uruguay team on the fourth day of the Nations Cup, which opens an international window in which the national team will play another match against Chile, on November 14 in Leganés (Madrid), and on the 21st of this month against Samoa in Malaga.
“We are going to work with the focus on Australia 2027, but we do not want to work only until Australia and then disappear,” said the federative president who announced that other top-level competitions that will take place in Spain will soon be announced.
Hansen, who said that “we do all this for the rugby player in Spain,” recalled regarding the 2035 World Cup that the candidacy has already submitted all the documentation that World Rugby (the international federation) requires and that competing with another country is ruled out and would be “counterproductive.”
He detailed the institutional and LaLiga support that the project has received, as well as the factors it has such as the stadiums – which would be football stadiums – in which no investments need to be made, the transport network and the experience of the 2030 World Cup just five years before.
Regarding television audiences, Hansen highlighted that the rugby world cups are the third most followed sporting event.
For his part, the head of Haier in Spain, Fidel Espiñeira, explained that his company has decided on this sponsorship because it identifies with the values of rugby such as “excellence, reliability and teamwork.”
