2003 Rugby World Cup qualifying

2003 Rugby World Cup qualifying
Tournament details
Dates 1999 – 2003
No. of nations 89
1999
2007

The qualification process for the 2003 Rugby World Cup began during the pool stages of the 1999 tournament in Wales, during which the quarterfinalists were awarded automatic qualification for the 2003 event. A further twelve teams qualified through regional tournaments and the repechage process.[1]

Qualifiers

Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania
Qualified at
1999 RWC
Qualified via
Regional Slots
Qualified via
Repechage

Qualifiers

A total of 79 teams from around the world were involved in some stage of qualifying.

Region Teams entered
qualifying
process
Qualifying
berths
Repechage
berths
Qualified
team(s)
Repechage
team(s)
Africa1211 Namibia Tunisia
Americas1721 Canada
 Uruguay
 United States
Asia1111 Japan South Korea
Europe3241 Ireland
 Italy
 Romania
 Georgia
 Spain
Oceania921 Fiji
 Samoa
 Tonga
TOTALS81105(1 WC Place)

Repechage qualification

References

  1. "Qualifying Results".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.