1994 Women's Rugby World Cup

Rugby World Cup

women = yes
datefrom = 1994-04-11
dateto = 1994-04-24
host = Scotland
nations = 12
champion = England
runnerup = United States
matches = 31
attendance =
apm =
top scorer = The 1994 Women's Rugby World Cup was the second world cup for women. It was originally scheduled to be held in the Amsterdam, Netherlands (April 10-24) but was cancelled only weeks before. However, a replacement competition has been organised around the same dates in Scotland.

The official reason for the cancellation was that the event organisers failed to get official endorsement of the event as the "Women's World Cup" from the International Rugby Board (IRB). Indeed the minutes of the 1993 Interim meeting of the IRB have the following to say about the "1994 Women's International Tournament":

"The Council agreed to defer consideration of participation by member unions in the tournament until such time as a formal request is received from the organizers."

Hence not only was there uncertainty to whether it really was the "Women's World Cup" or not, but the IRB refused to endorse it regardless of its status - the "deferral" (above) was in practice a refusal to endorse as the next scheduled IRB meeting was only days before the event was due to start.

Because of this, the Unions of some countries decided not to pay team expenses (including New Zealand, where women's rugby was by now fully integrated in the national union, and ultimately others as well) or withdrew their entries. Several team members decided to go ahead and raised the money themselves, but the surrounding uncertainty of the event status and the financial risk from teams pulling out prompted the event organisers to (rather abruptly) cancel it.

The women who had trained so hard, and had gone to much trouble raising money etc, were so disappointed at the cancellation that an alternative tournament in Scotland was soon organised. despite the IRB threatening sanctions against unions taking part in this unendorsed event, it went ahead.

Officially it (and its predecessor in 1991) were never endorsed by the IRB the Scottish organisers did not pursue the issue. However, all of the participating teams regarded it as the "real" World Cup.

Eventually eleven of the original sixteen entrnts took part - as well as New Zealand, Netherlands also withdrew from both participation as well as hosts, and Spain pulled out very late - after the groups had been drawn - and were replaced by a Scottish Students team. Italy and Germany were also notable absentees.

Once the event was underway proved to be a great success, England exacting revenge for their 1991 defeat to USA, beating the defending champions 38-23 in the final.

Pool stages

Pool A

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stadium = West of Scotland RFC
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test# = -
date = 1994-04-13
nohome = Scottish Students flagicon|SCO
score = 5-18
noaway = ruw|IRE
stadium = West of Scotland RFC
code = -/-/-|

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test# = 88
date = 1994-04-15
nohome = ruw-rt|FRA
score = 31-0
noaway = ruw|IRE
stadium = West of Scotland RFC
code = 26/3/1|

Pool D

:

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date = 1994-04-11
nohome = ruw-rt|CAN
score = 5-11
noaway = ruw|WAL
stadium = Edinburgh Academicals RFC
code = 15/10/3|

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test# = 85
date = 1994-04-13
nohome = ruw-rt|KAZ
score = 8-29
noaway = ruw|WAL
stadium = Edinburgh Academicals RFC
code = 2/16/1|

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test# = 89
date = 1994-04-15
nohome = ruw-rt|CAN
score = 28-0
noaway = ruw|KAZ
stadium = Edinburgh Academicals RFC
code = 11/3/1|

Plate competition

Round robin

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date = 1994-04-17
nohome = ruw-rt|RUS
score = 13-20
noaway = ruw|SWE
stadium = Kirkcaldy
code = 3/12/1|

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test# = -
date = 1994-04-17
nohome = Scottish Students flagicon|SCO
score = 0-27
noaway = ruw|KAZ
stadium = Kirkcaldy
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test# = -
date = 1994-04-19
nohome = Scottish Students flagicon|SCO
score = 12-14
noaway = ruw|SWE
stadium = Gala
code = -/-/-|

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test# = 95
date = 1994-04-19
nohome = ruw-rt|KAZ
score = 25-0
noaway = ruw|RUS
stadium = Gala
code = 4/4/1|----wrugbybox
test# = 100
date = 1994-04-21
nohome = ruw-rt|KAZ
score = 31-12
noaway = ruw|SWE
stadium = Stirling County
code = 5/13/1|

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test# = -
date = 1994-04-21
nohome = Scottish Students flagicon|SCO
score = 12-24
noaway = ruw|RUS
stadium = Stirling County
code = -/-/-|

Plate final

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test# = 103
date = 1994-04-23
nohome = ruw-rt|KAZ
score = 29-12
noaway = ruw|SWE
stadium = Boroughmuir
code = 6/14/2|

Championship

Quarter-finals

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test# = 91
date = 1994-04-17
nohome = ruw-rt|USA
score = 76-0
noaway = ruw|IRE
stadium = Boroughmuir
code = 17/4/1|

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test# = 92
date = 1994-04-17
nohome = ruw-rt|ENG
score = 24-10
noaway = ruw|CAN
stadium = Gala
code = 20/12/2|

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test# = 93
date = 1994-04-17
nohome = ruw-rt|FRA
score = 99-0
noaway = ruw|JPN
stadium = Edinburgh Academicals RFC
code = 27/5/2|

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test# = 94
date = 1994-04-17
nohome = ruw-rt|SCO |
score = 0-8
noaway = ruw|WAL
stadium = Melrose
code = 6/17/2|

Championship semi-finals

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test# = 96
date = 1994-04-20
nohome = ruw-rt|USA
score = 56-15
noaway = ruw|WAL |
stadium = Gala
code = 18/18/2|

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test# = 97
date = 1994-04-20
nohome = ruw-rt|ENG
score = 18-6
noaway = ruw|FRA
stadium = Gala
code = 21/28/3|

hield semi-finals

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test# = 98
date = 1994-04-20
nohome = ruw-rt|CAN
score = 57-0
noaway = ruw|JPN
stadium = Melrose
code = 13/6/1|

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test# = 99
date = 1994-04-20
nohome = ruw-rt|SCO
score = 10-3
noaway = ruw|IRE
stadium = Melrose
code = 7/5/3|

Cup final

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test# = 105
date = 1994-04-24
nohome = ruw-rt|ENG
score = 38-23
noaway = ruw|USA
stadium = Edinburgh Academicals RFC
code = 22/19/3|

Cup 3rd/4th place

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test# = 104
date = 1994-04-24
nohome = ruw-rt|FRA
score = 27-0
noaway = ruw|WAL
stadium = Edinburgh Academicals RFC
code = 29/19/1|

hield final (5th place)

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test# = 102
date = 1994-04-23
nohome = ruw-rt|SCO
score = 11-5
noaway = ruw|CAN
stadium = Boroughmuir
code = 8/14/1|

hield 3rd/4th (7th place)

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test# = 101
date = 1994-04-23
nohome = ruw-rt|IRE
score = 11-3
noaway = ruw|JPN
stadium = Boroughmuir
code = 6/7/1|

ee also

*Women's Rugby World Cup
*Rugby World Cup
*Rugby World Cup Sevens
*Scottish Womens Rugby Union

External links

* [http://www.rwcwomens.com/NR/rdonlyres/EF5F784B-3B0A-469D-8748-575A2A31B62C/0/050505SLWRWCprevresults.pdf Previous World Cup wrugby results]