What pool is Ireland in Rugby World Cup 2023?

Ireland have been drawn in Pool B for Rugby World Cup 2023 – alongside South Africa, Scotland, Tonga and Romania.

Ireland will begin their RWC 2023 campaign against Romania in Bordeaux on Saturday 9th September.

All kick-off times are shown in UK & Ireland time (with local time in brackets).

Ireland Rugby World Cup Fixtures

For its third match of Rugby World Cup 2023, Stade de France will play host to a battle at the very top, between South Africa and Ireland, on Saturday, September 23, 2023. The draw for this competition offers us a new face-off between two major teams from the northern and southern hemispheres. The two teams have clashed almost thirty times but never in the nine previous editions of Rugby World Cup.

The Irish team with a Shamrock in its emblem represents the unified Ireland (made up of the best players from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). They will challenge the reigning World Champion, South Africa, for what promises to be the final of Pool B. Facing one of the best teams in Europe, repeat winners of the Six Nations Tournament in recent years, the South Africans will have to defend their status with authority and panache. But the Irish won't be of the same mind, and this pool match will be red-hot. Woe betide the defeated, who will have to hope for a spot in the quarter-finals in this very tough Pool B with a resurgent Scotland.

Already winners in France during Rugby World Cup 2007, South Africa will have to be wary of the Irish. Quarter-finalists in the last edition of Rugby World Cup Japan in 2019 and still looking for their first title in this competition, Ireland is a team that never gives up and can count on a passionate public.

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The 10 matches of Rugby World Cup France 2023 at Stade de France

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Pool Match / South Africa V Ireland - September 23rd 2023

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This Pool B match at Stade de France between Ireland and Scotland on Saturday October 7, 2023 will have a distinctive flavour between two European teams more accustomed to playing face to face at Aviva Stadium or Murrayfield.
This time around, they won’t be playing for a Centenary Quaich (trophy awarded to the winner each year at the Six Nations Tournament), but a spot in the quarter-finals of Rugby World Cup 2023. Both still aspiring world title holders, the two teams dream of holding the Webb Ellis Cup Trophy after the final, just like their neighbour England, the only European nation to have been World Champion, winning Rugby World Cup 2003 in Australia.

In order to become world champion and join England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in the history of this prestigious competition, they will have no choice but to emerge from this match as the winner. For the losing team, the task will be difficult, as this match is qualifying for the quarter-final.

But this sport has so many surprises in store, and the teams are so well prepared that anything could happen.

Adding to the showdown on the pitch, fans will face off in the stands as well. Starting immediately as the players enter the arena, when the Scottish fans will launch into the famous Flower of Scotland, while the Irish sing their symbolic Ireland’s Call : a moment sure to spend shivers of emotion down the spines of every spectator in Stade de France!

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The 10 matches of Rugby World Cup France 2023 at Stade de France

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South Africa V Ireland + Ireland V Scotland

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Pool Match / Ireland V Scotland - October 7th 2023

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