1987 Rugby World Cup

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1987 Rugby World Cup

The First Rugby World Cup was hosted by New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
and Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
in 1987 and was won by New Zealand

All Blacks

The New Zealand national rugby union team, often referred to by their nickname the All Blacks, is the representative side of New Zealand in rugby union....
. Seven of the 16 places were automatically filled by the International Rugby Football Board members – New Zealand, Australia

Australia national rugby union team

The Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed the "Wallabies" and competes annually with All Blacks and South Africa national rugby union team in the Tri Nations , in which they also contest the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand and the Mandela Challenge Plate with...
, England

England national rugby union team

The England national rugby union team represents England in rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations Championship with France national rugby union team, Ireland national rugby union team, Scotland national rugby union team, Italy national rugby union team, and Wales national rugby union team....
, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France

France national rugby union team

The France national rugby union team represents France in rugby union. They compete annually against England national rugby union team, Ireland national rugby union team, Italy national rugby union team, Scotland national rugby union team and Wales national rugby union team in the Six Nations Championship....
– with South Africa

South Africa national rugby union team

The South Africa national rugby union team , are the current holders of the Rugby World Cup and are currently ranked number 2 in the IRB World Rankings....
unable to compete because of the international sports boycott due to apartheid. There was no qualification process to fill the remaining nine spots.

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The First Rugby World Cup was hosted by New Zealand

New Zealand

Australia

All Blacks

Australia national rugby union team

England national rugby union team

France national rugby union team

South Africa national rugby union team

Argentina national rugby union team

The Argentina national rugby team, nicknamed Los Pumas, represents Argentina in international rugby union matches. The team, which plays in sky blue and white jerseys, is organised by the Argentine Rugby Union ....
, Fiji

Fiji national rugby union team

The Fiji National rugby union team is one of the strongest national rugby union teams of the world, and the third from Oceania, even still as a second tier nation....
, Italy, Canada, Romania, Tonga, Japan, Zimbabwe and the United States. This left Western Samoa

Samoa national rugby union team

The national rugby union team of Samoa is called Manu Samoa .they are sponsored by PUMA From 1924 to 1997 they were known as Western Samoa. They perform a traditional Samoan challenge called the siva tau before each game....
controversially excluded, despite their better playing standard than some of the teams invited. The USSR were to be invited but they refused the invitation on political grounds, allegedly due to the continued IRB membership of South Africa.

On the whole the tournament witnessed fairly one-sided matches, the seven IRB members proving too strong for the other teams. Half of the 24 matches across the four pools saw one team score 40 or more points. It is therefore no surprise that five of the seven highest-scoring Rugby World Cup matches were witnessed during this tournament, a statistic that is echoed in the ‘most points by an individual’ and ‘most tries by a team’ statistics. New Zealand won the final against France at Eden Park

Eden Park

Eden Park is the main sports ground in Auckland City, New Zealand for both rugby union during winter, and cricket in summer. To accommodate both sports, the cricket pitch is removable....
in Auckland 29–9. The New Zealand team was captained by David Kirk

David Kirk

David Edward Kirk, Order of the British Empire, , is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He is best known for having been the captain of the All Blacks when they won the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 Rugby World Cup....
, substituting for the injured Andy Dalton

Andy Dalton

Andrew Grant Dalton is an ex-All Blacks rugby union player who captain the side 17 times in Rugby union#Major international tournaments. He is a second-generation All Black; his father Ray Dalton in the late 1940s....
, and included such rugby greats as Sean Fitzpatrick

Sean Fitzpatrick

Sean Brian Thomas Fitzpatrick, New Zealand Order of Merit is a former rugby union footballer who represented All Blacks, and is widely regarded as one of the finest players ever to come from that country....
, John Kirwan

John Kirwan (rugby player)

John James Patrick Kirwan, New Zealand Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire is a New Zealand born rugby union footballer turned coach. Kirwan, who played at Rugby union positions#14....
, Grant Fox

Grant Fox

Grant James Fox is former rugby union player from New Zealand. He was born in New Plymouth. He attended Auckland Grammar school.During his time with the All Blacks from 1985 to 1993, he wore the number 10 jersey , and was the main goalkicker for the All Blacks....
and Michael Jones

Michael Niko Jones

Michael Niko Jones is a former New Zealand rugby union player and coach. He was nicknamed 'the Iceman' or 'Ice' because of the cool but confident manner in which he played, and the number of icepacks he needed for injuries....
.

Stadia

Australia

City	Stadium	Capacity
Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....	Ballymore Stadium Ballymore Stadium Ballymore is the name of a rugby union stadium situated in Herston, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It was the home of Queensland Rugby Union, and used to be the home ground for the Queensland Reds and the Brisbane Strikers Soccer Club....	24,000
Sydney Sydney Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....	Concord Oval Concord Oval Concord Oval is a multi-use stadium in Concord, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently used mostly for rugby union matches and was used for eight matches during the 1987 Rugby World Cup....	20,000

New Zealand

City	Stadium	Capacity
Auckland Auckland The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban areas of New Zealand with over 1.3 million residents, percent of the country's population....	Eden Park Eden Park Eden Park is the main sports ground in Auckland City, New Zealand for both rugby union during winter, and cricket in summer. To accommodate both sports, the cricket pitch is removable....	45,472
Wellington Wellington Wellington is the Capital of New Zealand, situated at the southwestern tip of the North Island between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. The Wellington Urban Area is the major population centre of the southern North Island and ranks as New Zealand's third most populous Urban areas of New Zealand with residents....	Athletic Park Athletic Park (Wellington) Athletic Park was a well-known ground used mostly for rugby matches in Wellington, New Zealand. The ground was also the inaugural home of New Zealand's principal knockout football tournament, the Chatham Cup ....	39,000
Christchurch Christchurch Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest Urban areas of New Zealand. It is midway down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of Christchurch....	Lancaster Park	36,500
Dunedin Dunedin Dunedin , Otepoti in Maori, is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the region of Otago. It is New Zealand's fifth largest city in population, the largest in size of council boundary area, and the hub of the sixth-largest urban area....	Carisbrook Carisbrook Carisbrook is a major sporting venue in Dunedin, New Zealand. The city's main domestic and international rugby union venue, it has also been used for other sports such as cricket, football , rugby league and motocross....	35,000
Rotorua Rotorua Rotorua is a city on the southern shore of Lake Rotorua in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand, and Rotorua District is the encompassing local authority area....	Rotorua International Stadium Rotorua International Stadium Rotorua International Stadium is a multi-use stadium located on Devon Street West in Westbrook suburb of Rotorua, New Zealand. It is currently used mostly for soccer matches, as the home field for Rotorua United....	35,000
Napier Napier, New Zealand Napier is a seaport List of cities in New Zealand in Hawke's Bay , New Zealand. It has a population of Less than twenty kilometres separate the centres of Hastings City and Napier, and as such the two are often called "The Twin Cities" or "The Bay Cities"....	McLean Park McLean Park McLean Park is a chiefly a cricket ground in Napier, New Zealand, New Zealand, though rugby is also played here. It is one of the 10 proper Cricket Grounds of New Zealand....	30,000
Hamilton Hamilton, New Zealand Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's seventh largest territorial authorities of New Zealand....	Rugby Park
Invercargill Invercargill Invercargill is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland, New Zealand List of regions in New Zealand....	Rugby Park Stadium Rugby Park Stadium Rugby Park Stadium is a rugby union venue and home ground for Air New Zealand Cup team Southland Rugby. Rugby Park Stadium is located on the corner of Elles Road and Tweed Street in Invercargill....	17,000
Palmerston North Palmerston North Palmerston North is the main city of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is an inland city with a population of As of 2008 Palmerston North is the eleventh largest city in New Zealand, and the centre of the seventh largest urban area....	Showgrounds Oval

Participating nations

Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania
			Ireland Ireland national rugby union team The Ireland rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union, which is a popular sport throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, though only dominant in limited geographical areas.... **

Format

The World Cup was contested by 16 different nations, in total, playing 32 matches over the duration of the tournament. There was no qualifying tournament to determine the participants, and instead the 16 nations were invited by the International Rugby Football Board to compete. The 16 nations were divided into four pools of four nations, with each nation playing their other pool opponents once, every nation playing three times during the group stages. Nations were awarded 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and zero for a loss, the top two nations of every pool advanced to the quarter finals. The runners-up of each pool faced the winners of a different pool in the quarter finals. The winners moved on to the semi finals, with the winners then moving onto the final, and the losers of the semi finals contesting a third/fourth place play off.

Pool stage

Pool 1

P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
3	3	0	108	41	6
3	2	1	100	32	4
3	1	2	39	99	2
3	0	3	48	123	0

Pool 2

Team	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
	3	3	0	82	31	6
Ireland Ireland national rugby union team The Ireland rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union, which is a popular sport throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, though only dominant in limited geographical areas....	3	2	1	84	41	4
	3	1	2	65	90	2
	3	0	3	29	98	0

Pool 3

P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
3	3	0	190	34	6
3	1	2	56	101	2
3	1	2	49	90	2
3	1	2	40	110	2

Pool 4

P	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
3	2	1	0	145	44	5
3	2	1	0	135	69	5
3	1	0	2	61	130	2
3	0	0	3	53	151	0

1987 Rugby World Cup

Stadia

Australia

New Zealand

Participating nations

Format

Pool stage

Pool 1

Pool 2

Pool 3

Pool 4

Knock-out stage

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Third-place play-off

Final

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