2033 Rugby World Cup

Tournament details
Host nation	United States
Dates	–
No. of nations	16
← 2029 2037 →

The 2033 Women's Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be the twelfth edition of the women's Rugby World Cup. The tournament will be held in the United States.^[1] This will be the second Women’s Rugby World Cup to be held in the Americas. The previous one was held in Canada in 2006 with New Zealand emerging as the champions.

Host nation selection

The United States was the only bidder for the tournament. The US was announced as the host nation on May 12, 2022.

2033 Rugby World Cup
bidding results

Nation	Votes
United States	Acclamation

Development & preparations

Candidate host cities

Seattle

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Diego

Phoenix

Denver

Minneapolis

Chicago

Kansas City

Dallas

Austin

Houston

New Orleans

Miami

Orlando

Birmingham

Nashville

Atlanta

Charlotte

Pittsburgh

Washington, D.C.

Baltimore

Philadelphia

New York

Boston

Shortlisted locations

A total of 24 cities throughout the United States have expressed interest in hosting matches. Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C. have all expressed interest.^[2]

Qualifying

Tournament hosts, the United States qualify automatically. They will be joined by the teams that reached the semi-final stage of the 2029 Women's Rugby World Cup, who also qualified automatically.

Qualified teams

Region	Team	Qualification method	Previous apps	Previous best result	World Rugby Ranking1
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America	United States	Hosts	TBC	Champions (1991)
Oceania
South America

Notes

• ^1 – Post warm-up matches