Hosts England face Australia, USA & Samoa at 2025 World Cup

England's way to a imaginable location Rugby World Cup triumph has been mapped retired with the hosts placed successful a excavation alongside Australia, USA, and Samoa for adjacent summer's tournament.

The Red Roses, runaway leaders astatine the apical of the satellite rankings and connected 20-match winning streak, are wide favourites to spell 1 amended than they did successful New Zealand successful 2022.

If the top-seeded squad wins each pool, England could lone conscionable satellite fig twos Canada oregon defending champions New Zealand successful the final.

Ireland, who claimed a celebrated upset triumph implicit New Zealand successful WXV earlier this month, are grouped with the Black Ferns, Japan and Spain aft failing to suffice for the erstwhile tournament.

England look a imaginable quarter-final against the runners-up from the excavation containing Scotland and Wales - drawn unneurotic for the 2nd consecutive tourney - Canada and Fiji.

France are England’s likeliest last-four opponents and they, who on with the Red Roses, Canada and New Zealand were apical seeds, are successful a radical with Italy, South Africa and Brazil.

The gully was conducted connected BBC's The One Show by England's 2014 World Cup victor Maggie Alphonsi.

The tourney begins connected Friday 22 August with England successful enactment astatine Sunderland's Stadium of Light and culminates successful the last astatine Twickenham’s Allianz Stadium connected 27 September.

Pool A: England, Australia, USA, Samoa

Pool B: Canada, Scotland, Wales, Fiji

Pool C: New Zealand, Ireland, Japan, Spain

Pool D: France, Italy, South Africa, Brazil

In 2010, the lone erstwhile juncture connected which England has hosted the tournament, the last was held crossed the roadworthy from Allianz Stadium astatine the Stoop.

It was a acquainted result. ew Zealand bushed England - a effect that has concluded 5 of the past six Rugby World Cups.

England went into the past World Cup arsenic satellite fig ones and connected a record-breaking tally of Test wins, but the Black Ferns overhauled the visitors' 14-point pb aft England helping Lydia Thompson had been sent off.

Former All Blacks manager John Mitchell replaced Simon Middleton successful the aftermath of the decision and has overseen a much expansive, ambitious style.

After England bushed Canada to clasp the WXV rubric earlier this month, Mitchell warned that contempt his team's evident dominance, they could instrumentality thing for granted arsenic much unions put successful their women's teams.

"The spread is closing successful presumption of the mode radical are playing and being coached," Mitchell said.

"All the different teams person truly bully coaching groups, they are each getting better. For america our situation is to get better.

"It is besides astir however peculiar it is going to beryllium to play a World Cup astatine home, thing that we tin interaction connected different radical for the remainder of our lives."

The tourney has been expanded from the 12 teams that took portion successful 2022, with 16 sides participating including debutants Brazil.

The Rugby Football Union has acceptable itself the people of filling Twickenham for the final, a feat that would shatter the existent grounds attendance of a women's rugby national lucifer – the 58,498 who attended the Red Roses' Six Nations-sealing triumph implicit France successful April 2023.

The tourney claims to beryllium the most-accessible women's Rugby World Cup ever, with matches staged astatine 8 venues crossed England.

The Amex Stadium, location of Premier League broadside Brighton and Hove Albion, Exeter Chiefs' Sandy Park, Sale Sharks' Salford Community Stadium, Franklin's Gardens successful Northampton and the LNER Community Stadium successful York volition big excavation matches.

The quarter-final enactment volition beryllium staged astatine Sandy Park and Bristol's Ashton Gate, with the semi-finals astatine the second and the last astatine Twickenham.

After an archetypal presale successful September, tickets to each matches spell connected merchantability connected 5 November.

Select matches for adjacent year's tourney volition beryllium shown connected the BBC's linear channels, portion each crippled volition beryllium disposable to ticker unrecorded connected BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.

BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra volition besides broadcast commentary connected the tournament, which begins connected 22 August.