# England women at the Rugby World Cup

The England women's national rugby union team have played 44 matches at the Women's Rugby World Cup tournaments from 1991 to 2017. They have won two tournaments in 1994 and 2014. They were runners-up in 1991, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2017 and 2021. They have been in every final at the tournament except for 1998 where they placed third.
England hosted the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup.

## By position

Rugby World Cup :
| Year | Round | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | Squad |
| 1991 | Runners-up | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 56 | 28 | Squad |
| 1994 | Champions | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 172 | 39 | Squad |
| 1998 | Third Place | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 219 | 78 | Squad |
| 2002 | Runners-up | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 138 | 37 | Squad |
| 2006 | Runners-up | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 146 | 47 | Squad |
| 2010 | Runners-up | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 171 | 23 | Squad |
| 2014 | Champions | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 184 | 37 | Squad |
| 2017 | Runners-up | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 211 | 88 | Squad |
| 2021 | Runners-up | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 270 | 84 | Squad |
| 2025 | Qualified | Qualified | Qualified | Qualified | Qualified | Qualified | Qualified | Qualified |
| 2029 | TBD |
| 2033 | TBD |
| Total | Champions$^†$ | 44 | 36 | 1 | 7 | 1487 | 451 | |
| Champion Runner-up Third place Fourth place * Tied placing $^†$ Best placing Home venue |||||||||

## 1991 Rugby World Cup

| Team | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against |
| England | 2 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 9 |
| Spain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 19 |
| Italy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 25 |

### Knockout stage
## 1994 Rugby World Cup

| Team | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against |
| England | 2 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 0 |
| Scotland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 26 |
| Russia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 117 |

### Knockout stage
## 1998 Rugby World Cup

| Team | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Ladder |
| England | 2 | 0 | 0 | 147 | 6 | 2nd |
| Canada | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 79 | 8th |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 16 | 10th |
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 139 | 15th |

### Knockout stage
## 2002 Rugby World Cup

| Position | Nation | Games | Games | Games | Games | Points | Points | Table points | Overall ranking |
| Position | Nation | played | won | drawn | lost | for | against | Table points | Overall ranking |
| 1 | England | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 14 | 6 | 3rd |
| 2 | Spain | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 67 | 13 | 4 | 6th |
| 3 | Italy | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 66 | 4 | 12th |
| 4 | Japan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 92 | 2 | 15th |

### Knockout stage
## 2006 Rugby World Cup

Pool B ⇔ Pool C
| Pool | Team | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Points |
| B | England | 3 | 0 | 0 | 119 | 16 | 14 |
| C | France | 2 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 37 | 10 |
| C | United States | 2 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 35 | 9 |
| B | Australia | 1 | 0 | 2 | 88 | 42 | 6 |
| B | Ireland | 1 | 0 | 2 | 48 | 67 | 5 |
| C | South Africa | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 179 | 0 |

### Knockout stage
## 2010 Rugby World Cup

| Po | Nation | Pl | Wo | Dr | Lo | Pf | Pa | Pd | Tf | Ta | Bp | Tp |
| 1 | England | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 146 | 10 | +136 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| 2 | Ireland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 59 | 42 | +17 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | United States | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 73 | 59 | +14 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 170 | −167 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 |

### Knockout stage
## 2014 Rugby World Cup

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | TF | PF | PA | +/− | BP | Pts |
| England | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 123 | 21 | +102 | 2 | 12 |
| Canada | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 86 | 25 | +61 | 2 | 12 |
| Spain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 51 | 81 | −30 | 1 | 5 |
| Samoa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 148 | −133 | 0 | 0 |

### Knockout stage
## 2017 Rugby World Cup

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | TF | PF | PA | +/− | BP | Pts |
| England | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 159 | 44 | +115 | 3 | 15 |
| United States | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 93 | 59 | +34 | 3 | 11 |
| Spain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 27 | 107 | −80 | 0 | 4 |
| Italy | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 33 | 102 | −69 | 0 | 0 |

### Knockout stage
## Overall record

Overall record against all nations in the World Cup:
| Country | P | W | D | L | PF | PA | Win% |
| Australia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 13 | 100% |
| Canada | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 224 | 69 | 85.71% |
| France | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 17 | 100% |
| Ireland | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 7 | 100% |
| Italy | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 144 | 31 | 100% |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 0 | 100% |
| New Zealand | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 79 | 142 | 0% |
| Russia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 0 | 100% |
| Samoa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 3 | 100% |
| Scotland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 100% |
| South Africa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 8 | 100% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 0 | 100% |
| Spain | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 126 | 15 | 100% |
| United States | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 140 | 59 | 80% |
| Total | 38 | 31 | 1 | 6 | 1217 | 367 | 82.92% |