When will the Australia World Cup 2027 be?

It was confirmed that the 2027 World Cup raffle will be held before the start of six nations 2026presumably in December this year after the November window, or the beginning of January next year. Unlike the previous World Cup raffle, all teams that will participate in Australia 2027 will be confirmed before the groups are raffled. All rugby, in Disney+.

It should be remembered that the 2023 World Cup raffle was subject to mass criticism and World Rugby made the decision not to use the updated world classifications in the respective bands due to the pandemic. This also happened almost three years before the tournament, since the raffle took place on December 14, 2020. This resulted in an incredibly unbalanced tournament, with the four best classified teams (Ireland, New Zealand, France and South Africa) arriving at the World Cup all on one side of the draw.

“The reason why the groups of groups were made before was for the safety of the host cities and to know where the teams would go, which is very important,” Beaumont told The Breakdown in July 2023. In turn , about the next World Cup, he added: “What we will do is try to make the group raffle take as late as possible so that there is more consistency in the balance of a group.”

So far, 12 teams secured the Classification for Australia 2027 after finishing among the first three of their group in France and four other teams were classified through their performances in the Europe Championship Rugby in 2025.