2017 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup
| 2017 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup | |||
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| Tournament details | |||
| Countries |
 Fiji Samoa Tonga
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| Tournament format(s) | Round-robin | ||
| Date | 1–15 July 2017 | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Teams | 3 | ||
| Final | |||
| Official website | World Rugby | ||
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The 2017 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup will be the twelfth edition of the World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup (formerly known as the IRB Pacific Nations Cup), an annual international rugby union tournament. The 2017 title will be contested solely by the Pacific nations of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.
Teams competing in previous years, Canada, Japan and the United States were not scheduled to participate in the tournament for 2017 or 2016 due the 2019 Rugby World Cup qualifying format. The top two teams on aggregate across the 2016 and 2017 Pacific Nations Cups for Japan 2019, with the team finishing third scheduled to enter the repechage for qualification.
Having not hosted a test match since playing Fiji in June 2009, Tonga was given the go-ahead to host a test match with World Rugby's approval of the revamped Teufaiva Sport Stadium.
The full match schedule was announced on 23 March 2017.
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