2019 Rugby World Cup – Oceania qualification
Qualifying for the 2019 Rugby World Cup for Oceania Rugby will begin in June 2016, where the top three nations of the Pacific-Oceania region, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga will compete against each other for two qualifying berths in 2019.
Format
In addition to the two automatically qualified teams (Australia and New Zealand), Oceania have been allocated a further two direct berths in the tournament. A third and fourth team from Oceania could join the tournament through inter-confederation play-offs and the repechage.
The revamped World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup will now only include Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. The teams will play on a home and away basis in a round robin format across the two years in the June international windows. The top two teams across the 2016 and 2017 tournaments will gain qualification for Rugby World Cup 2019 as Oceania 1 and Oceania 2.
The bottom placed team of the 2016–2017 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cups will play a home and away play-off against the second ranked team from the 2018 Rugby Europe Championship (excluding Georgia. The winner on aggregate qualifying for Rugby World Cup 2019 as the Europe/Oceania play-off qualifier, whereas the loser will head to the world repechage.
In addition to the Europe/Oceania play-off, there will also be an Asia/Oceania play-off for a repechage place, where the winner of the 2017 Asian Rugby Championship (excluding Japan) will play a home and away play-off against the winner of the 2017 Oceania Rugby Cup, with the winner on aggregate advancing to the world repechage.
Entrants
The 2019 Rugby World Cup qualifying teams that will compete for the 2019 Rugby World Cup – Oceania qualification. (World rankings, shown in brackets, are those immediately prior to first Oceania qualification match on 11 June 2016)
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American Samoa (TBC) -
Cook Islands (TBC) -
Fiji -
Niue (TBC) -
Papua New Guinea (TBC) -
Samoa -
Solomon Islands (TBC) -
Tahiti (TBC) -
Tonga -
Vanuatu (TBC)
Qualified nations
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Australia (Automatic qualifier) -
New Zealand (Automatic qualifier)
Round 1:Pacific Nations cup 2016–2017
| Qualified as Oceania 1 |
| Qualified as Oceania 2 |
| Advances to Europe/Oceania play-off |
| Rank | Team | Games | Points | Tries | Try Bonus | Losing Bonus | Table Points | ||||||
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| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | For | Against | |||||
| 1 | Fiji | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Samoa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Tonga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Points breakdown: *4 points for a win *2 points for a draw *1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less *1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match | |||||||||||||
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Round 2:Europe/Oceania play-off
| June 2018 |
| Oceania 3 | v | Europe 2 |
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| TBA |
| June 2018 |
| Europe 2 | v | Oceania 3 |
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| TBA |
Round 3:Asia/Oceania play-off for a repechage
| 2018 |
| 2017 Oceania Rugby Cup winner | v | 2017 Asian Rugby Championship winner |
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| TBA |
| 2018 |
| 2017 Asian Rugby Championship winner | v | 2017 Oceania Rugby Cup winner |
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| TBA |