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Pools announced for 2019 World Cup
The Federation of International Touch has announced the pools for the 2019 World Cup.
In all there will be 117 teams from more than 20 countries in Putrajaya, Malaysia, at the end of April as the Touch World Cup shows dramatic expansion from the 2015 edition in Coffs Harbour.
Every continent will be represented during the six days of competition, and with different numbers of teams in each of the 10 categories there will be slightly different formats accordingly.
Seedings have been based on the 2015 finishing position and the current world ranking.
MEN’S OPEN
Pool A Australia, South Africa, ENGLAND, Scotland, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Singapore
Pool B New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, France, Wales, Ireland, Cook Islands, Philippines, United States, Netherlands
Each team to play every other team in their pool. Top four in each pool progress to the quarter finals, with the other teams playing for final rankings
WOMEN’S OPEN
Pool A Australia, South Africa, ENGLAND, Scotland, Japan, Samoa, China, Fiji
Pool B New Zealand, Singapore, Wales, France, Papua New Guinea, United States, Netherlands, Philippines, Malaysia
Each team to play every other team in their pool. Top four in each pool progress to the quarter finals, with the other teams playing for final rankings
MIXED OPEN
Pool A Australia, ENGLAND, Scotland, Chile, France, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, United States, Italy, Germany
Pool B New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Wales, Japan, Ireland, Singapore, Fiji, Malaysia, China, Chinese Taipei
Each team to play every other team in their pool. Top four in each pool progress to the quarter finals, with the other teams playing for final rankings
WOMEN’S 27s
Australia, New Zealand, ENGLAND, France, Singapore, South Africa, United States
Each team to play every other team once. Top four progress to the semi-finals, with the other teams playing for final rankings
MEN’S 30s
Australia, United States, ENGLAND, Fiji, Japan, France, Singapore, South Africa
Each team to play every other team once. Top four progress to the semi-finals, with play-off matches between the 5th/6th and 7th/8th placed teams
MIXED 30s
Australia, New Zealand, ENGLAND, Ireland, France, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Chile, Cook Islands, Scotland, South Africa
Each team to play every other team once. Top four progress to the semi-finals, with play-off matches between the 5th/6th, 7th/8th and 9th/10th placed teams
WOMEN’S 35s
ENGLAND, Australia, New Zealand, Europe
Each team to play every other team twice. Top two teams then play in the final
MEN’S 35s
New Zealand, Australia, ENGLAND, Fiji, Cook Islands, United States
Each team to play every other team once. Top four progress to the semi-finals, with play-off matches between the 5th/6th placed teams
MEN’S 40s
Pool A Australia, Wales, France, Italy, Belgium, United Arab Emirates
Pool B New Zealand, ENGLAND, Ireland, United States, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia
Each team to play every other team in their pool. Top four in each pool progress to the quarter finals, with the other teams playing for final rankings
MEN’S 45s
ENGLAND, Wales, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa
Each team to play every other team once. Top four progress to the semi-finals, with play-off matches between the 5th/6th placed teams
MEN’S 50s
Australia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Great Britain
Each team to play every other team once. Top four progress to the semi-finals, with play-off matches between the 5th-placed team and Great Britain (who cannot win a medal due to not being an official member of FIT)
