The match dates, times and details about which games will be broadcast have been announced by the French Rugby Union (FFR).

During the pool phase, where all games are being played at Marcoussis before the semis and final move to the home of Stade Francais in Paris, some games will overlap, but not as severely as in 2010. However despite this the current plan is that only half of the pool games will broadcast by TV rights holders (ie. Sky in Ireland and the UK, France 4 in France, Eurosport across most of continental Europe, etc.).

All of England and France’s games will be shown, while Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand will appear twice. Canada, Ireland, Samoa, Spain, United States and Wales will appear once, but none of Kazakhstan’s games will be broadcast.

There is no information yet about whether any of the other games will be streamed (they were not in 2010, though streaming was somewhat in its infancy then). It is expected – again as in 2010 – that they will be filmed and some highlights released, but no information about this has yet been published.

The programme will be as follows (all times are CET, which is GMT+2. For times in UK/Ireland subtract one hour):

Defending champions New Zealand will open the tournament at 1pm on Friday August 1, against Kazakhstan. Elsewhere on the opening day, Canada take on Spain, USA take on Ireland, Australia face South Africa, England face Samoa and finally hosts France open their account against Wales in the late evening KO at 20.45.

Tickets for the knockout stages range from just €5 to €20 for the semi-finals and from €5 to €25 for the final day at Stade Jean Bouin.



Tickets for the pool stages will be released at a later date.

1st August

13:00 Pool B New Zealand v Kazakhstan Pitch 2 15:00 Pool A Canada v Spain Pitch 2 15:45 Pool B Australia v South Africa Pitch 1 Live on TV 17:00 Pool C United States v Ireland Pitch 2 18:00 Pool A England v Samoa Pitch 1 Live on TV 20:45 Pool C France v Wales Pitch 1 Live on TV

5th August

13:00 Pool B United States v Kazakhstan Pitch 2 15:00 Pool C Australia v Wales Pitch 2 15:45 Pool A England v Spain Pitch 1 Live on TV 17:00 Pool A Canada v Samoa Pitch 2 18:00 Pool B New Zealand v Ireland Pitch 1 Live on TV 20:45 Pool C France v South Africa Pitch 1 Live on TV

9th August

13:00 Pool B Ireland v Kazakhstan Pitch 2 15:00 Pool A Spain v Samoa Pitch 2 15:45 Pool A England v Canada Pitch 1 Live on TV 17:00 Pool C Wales v South Africa Pitch 2 18:00 Pool B New Zealand v United States Pitch 1 Live on TV 20:45 Pool C France v Australia Pitch 1 Live on TV

Semi-finals and classification games: 13th August*

14:00 10th seed v 11th Marcoussis 15:45 5th seed v 8th Jean Bouin Live on TV 16:15 9th seed v 12th Marcoussis 18:00 2nd seed v 3rd Jean Bouin Live on TV 18:30 6th seed v 7th Marcoussis 20:45 1st seed v 4th Jean Bouin Live on TV

Finals day: 17th August*

12:00 11th place play-off Marcoussis 14:00 9th place play-off Marcoussis 14:15 5th place play-off Jean Bouin Live on TV 16:00 7th place play-off Marcoussis 16:30 3rd place play-off Jean Bouin Live on TV 18:45 World Cup final Jean Bouin Live on TV

*If France were to finish outside the top 5, or played in and lost the 5th/9th place playoff, their games would be played at Jean Bouin in replacement for the playoff fixtures listed.