Winning the Rugby World Cup is a matter of pride and prestige. All the nations that are taking place in that competions are prepared to give it all in order to win. The Rugby World Cup 2011 is going to be played in New Zealand and it is expected to attract the interest of the rugby fans around the world. This big rugby event is taking place between the 9th of September and the 23rd of October and there will be twenty national rugby teams that will compete to become the new Rugby World Champions. This means we will have almost 7 weeks filled with rugby action and nations fighting for the Webb Ellis Cup.

New Zealand who is hosting this Rugby World Cup, has also hosted the first ever Rugby World Cup back in 1987 along with Australia. The World Cup tournament will be hosted in 13 different stadiums with the opening and the final game taking place in Eden Park in Auckland.

This popular international rugby tournament will attract rugby fans, people who just support their nation in any sport or competition as well as punters that are looking for some extra motivation to follow the tournament. Betting Markets, Outright betting, bookies favourites and more in our Rugby World Cup betting section.

2011 Rugby World Cup Groups

The Rugby World Cup 2011 has 4 Groups with five teams in each group and two from each group are going through to the last eight and into the knock-out stages. The groups are quite balanced and someone will find the top Rugby nations spread in all of them. Of course, as always in this kind of competitions there are some Groups that are more challenging than others and rugby fans are expecting more action on those ones.

On that RWC the group that is the hardest one to predict the next stage qualifiers is Group B. Argentina and Scotland are looking like they will have to fight each other for the second place but nobody can guarantee that England is going to take the fist place with such competing opponents.

Below are the 4 Groups of 2011 Rugby World Cup

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
New Zealand	Argentina	Australia	South Africa
France	England	Ireland	Wales
Tonga	Scotland	Italy	Fiji
Canada	Georgia	Russia	Samoa
Japan	Romania	USA	Namibia