2017 Women's Rugby World Cup
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| Host nations |
 Ireland
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| Dates | 9 August, 2017 – 26 August, 2017 |
| No. of nations | 12 |
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| Qualified for semi-finals |
| Qualified for 5th to 8th playoffs |
| Qualified for 9th to 12th playoffs |
The 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup is the ongoing eighth edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup and is being held in Ireland in August 2017. The matches are being held in Dublin and Belfast. The pool stages are being held at University College Dublin with the semi finals and finals being held at Queen's University and Kingspan Stadium in Belfast.
The tournament takes place three years after the previous Women's Rugby World Cup because World Rugby wanted to move away from clashing with other events. The event will return to a four-year cycle after 2017.
On 2 March 2015 it was announced that the Irish Rugby Football Union had submitted a bid to host to Women's Rugby World Cup in August 2017.Ireland made the only bid to host the event. On 13 May 2015 it was announced that Ireland would host the event in Dublin and Belfast.
On 4 June 2015 it was announced that Garrett Tubridy had been appointed tournament director for the event.
Ireland, as the host nation, qualified automatically. Six teams (England, Canada, France, New Zealand, USA and Australia) qualified automatically as they finished in the top seven at the 2014 tournament. Italy and Wales qualified as the top two teams across the 2015 and 2016 Women's Six Nations excluding England, France, and Ireland. The remaining three qualifiers (Hong Kong, Spain and Japan) were determined by the end of 2016.
The pool draw took place on 9 November 2016 at Belfast.
Each pool is a single round-robin of six games, in which each team plays one match against each of the other teams in the same pool. Teams are awarded four points for a win, two points for a draw and none for a defeat of more than seven points. A team scoring four or more tries in one match will score a bonus point, as will a team that loses by seven points or fewer.
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