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Discover the cities which will stage the 2007 Rugby World Cup matches in France and Britain
In less than 200 days, on Friday 7 September 2007 to be precise, the sixth Rugby World Cup will kick off at the Stade de France®.

The opening match between France and an America's 1 qualifier will mark the start of an immense festivity of world rugby. Right through to the final on Saturday 20 October 2007, France will beat to the rhythm of the world’s third biggest sporting event and will welcome 20 national teams, 600 players, 3,500 media representatives, 2.4 million spectators. In less than 200 days the spectacle will be found in the 12 grounds which will stage the matches of Rugby World Cup 2007.

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About

The 2007 Rugby World Cup will be the sixth Rugby World Cup, for the quadrennial world championship. It will be hosted by France from September 7 to October 20 of 2007. France won the right to host the event in 2003, beating a bid from England. Over 90 nations participated in the regional qualifying competitions that started in 2004. The eight quarter-finalists from the 2003 event automatically qualified, twelve further nations have qualified. Portugal is the only debutant nation at the 2007 World Cup.

This World Cup will have 20 nations contesting 48 matches over 44 days. Forty-two matches will be spread between ten French cities, with four matches to be held in Cardiff, Wales and two matches in Edinburgh, Scotland. Subsequent tournaments were held in the United Kingdom and France, in 1991, and in South Africa, in 1995 and in Wales in 1999. Australia hosted the 2003 tournament. In the first three RWC's 16 teams contested the final rounds after qualifying matches involving all the other IRB member Unions over a two-year period.

In 1999 the fourth RWC was hosted by Wales with an expanded entry of 20 teams, qualifying through 133 matches worldwide from an original entry of 65 Unions. Winners of the Cup were, New Zealand (1987), Australia (1991), South Africa (1995),Australia (1999) and England (2003).

The RWC 1999 Final was played at the new Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, on November 6 to conclude a 41-game, 18-venue tournament in Wales, England, Scotland, Ireland and France. The semi-finals were staged in London with the quarter-finals in Cardiff, Paris, Edinburgh and Dublin. The competition will be contested over 44 days between 20 different nations, over 48 fixtures.

This Rugby world cup tournament commences on September 7, at Stade de France between hosts France and Argentina. The tournament culminates at the same venue on October 20 for the final to decide who wins the Webb Ellis Cup. The 20 nations are split up into four pools of five teams, known as A through to D. Classification within each pool is based on the following scoring schedule; four points for a win, two for a draw and none for a loss.

A bonus point can be awarded in each of the following instances; a team scores four or more tries (regardless of the match result) and/or a team loses by seven points (a converted try) or less. Each pool has two quarter-finalists (automatic qualifiers) from the 2003 tournament, with the other three places filled through qualification. Each nation play their pool oppostion once, in total, each nation will have four fixtures in the pool stages. The winners and runners-up of each of the four pools advance to the quarter-finals.

The Finals

The quarter-finalists will also gain entry to the 2011 tournament in New Zealand. Pool winners are drawn against opposite pool runners-up in the quarter-finals, for example the winner of Pool A faces the runner up of Pool B, and the winner of Pool B face the runner-up of Pool A. The whole finals stage adopts a knock-out format, and the winners of the quarter-finals advance to the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finalists advance to the final, and the runners-up will contest a third/fourth place play-off the day before the final.