2015 Rugby World Cup

The **2015 Rugby World Cup** was the 8th Rugby World Cup tournament. It was played in England from 18 September to 31 October. New Zealand won the tournament over Australia to win their 3rd title. 20 nations competed in the tournament.

## Host nation

On 28 July 2009, the International Rugby Board chose England as the host for the 205 tournament, and Japan for the 2019 competition. Italy, Japan and South Africa all wanted to host the tournament.

## Venues

The final venues and schedule were all confirmed on 2 May 2013.

|London|colspan=2|London|colspan=2|London|Cardiff (Wales)|
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|Wembley Stadium|colspan=2|Twickenham|colspan=2|Olympic Stadium|Millennium Stadium|
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|Capacity: **90,000**|colspan=2|Capacity: **85,000**|colspan=2|Capacity: **56,000**|Capacity: **74,154**|
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|St James' Park|Manchester City Stadium|||||
|Capacity: **52,409**|Capacity: **55,097**|||||
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|Villa Park|Elland Road|||||
|Capacity: **42,785**|Capacity: **37,914**|||||
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|Leicester City Stadium|Brighton Community Stadium|colspan=2|Stadium mk|Kingsholm Stadium|Sandy Park|
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|Capacity: **32,312**|Capacity: **30,750**|colspan=2|Capacity: **30,717**|Capacity: **16,500**|Capacity: **12,300**|
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## Teams

12 of these teams qualified just from playing well in the last tournament, and the other 8 played in regional tournaments to qualify.

### Pool A

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=180|Team|width=28 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=28 abbr="Won"|W|width=28 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=28 abbr="Lost"|L|width=28 abbr="Lost"|TF|width=28 abbr="Goals for"|PF|width=28 abbr="Goals against"|PA|width=28 abbr="Goal difference"|+/−|width=28 abbr="Goals against"|BP|width=28 abbr="Points"|Pts|width=300|Qualification|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Australia|4|4|0|0|17|141|35|+106|1|**17**|rowspan=2|Advanced to the quarter-finals and qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup||||||||||||
|2|align=left||4|3|0|1|11|111|62|+49|1|**13**||||||||||||||
|3|align=left||4|2|0|2|16|133|75|+58|3|**11**|rowspan=1|Qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup||||||||||||
|4|align=left||4|1|0|3|10|84|101|–17|1|**5**|rowspan=2|||||||||||||
|5|align=left||4|0|0|4|2|30|226|–196|0|**0**||||||||||||||

### Pool B

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=180|Team|width=28 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=28 abbr="Won"|W|width=28 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=28 abbr="Lost"|L|width=28 abbr="Lost"|TF|width=28 abbr="Goals for"|PF|width=28 abbr="Goals against"|PA|width=28 abbr="Goal difference"|+/−|width=28 abbr="Goals against"|BP|width=28 abbr="Points"|Pts|width=300|Qualification|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||4|3|0|1|23|176|56|+120|4|**16**|rowspan=2|Advanced to the quarter-finals and qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup||||||||||||
|2|align=left||4|3|0|1|14|136|93|+43|2|**14**||||||||||||||
|3|align=left||4|3|0|1|9|98|100|–2|0|**12**|rowspan=1|Qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup||||||||||||
|4|align=left||4|1|0|3|7|69|124|–55|2|**6**|rowspan=2|||||||||||||
|5|align=left||4|0|0|4|5|50|156|–106|0|**0**||||||||||||||

### Pool C

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=180|Team|width=28 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=28 abbr="Won"|W|width=28 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=28 abbr="Lost"|L|width=28 abbr="Lost"|TF|width=28 abbr="Goals for"|PF|width=28 abbr="Goals against"|PA|width=28 abbr="Goal difference"|+/−|width=28 abbr="Goals against"|BP|width=28 abbr="Points"|Pts|width=300|Qualification|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|New Zealand|4|4|0|0|25|174|49|+125|3|**19**|rowspan=2|Advanced to the quarter-finals and qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup||||||||||||
|2|align=left||4|3|0|1|22|179|70|+109|3|**15**||||||||||||||
|3|align=left||4|2|0|2|5|53|123|–70|0|**8**|rowspan=1|Qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup||||||||||||
|4|align=left||4|1|0|3|8|70|130|–60|2|**6**|rowspan=2|||||||||||||
|5|align=left||4|0|0|4|8|70|174|–104|1|**1**||||||||||||||

### Pool D

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=180|Team|width=28 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=28 abbr="Won"|W|width=28 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=28 abbr="Lost"|L|width=28 abbr="Lost"|TF|width=28 abbr="Goals for"|PF|width=28 abbr="Goals against"|PA|width=28 abbr="Goal difference"|+/−|width=28 abbr="Goals against"|BP|width=28 abbr="Points"|Pts|width=300|Qualification|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||4|4|0|0|16|134|35|+99|2|**18**|rowspan=2|Advanced to the quarter-finals and qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup||||||||||||
|2|align=left||4|3|0|1|12|120|63|+57|2|**14**||||||||||||||
|3|align=left||4|2|0|2|7|74|88|–14|2|**10**|rowspan=1|Qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup||||||||||||
|4|align=left||4|1|0|3|7|60|129|–69|0|**4**|rowspan=2|||||||||||||
|5|align=left||4|0|0|4|7|58|131|–73|2|**2**||||||||||||||

## Statistics

|style="width:12%"|Player|style="width:12%"|Team|style="width:4%"|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Nicolás Sánchez|align=left||97||
|align=left|Handré Pollard|align=left||93||
|align=left|Bernard Foley|align=left|Australia|82||
|align=left|Dan Carter|align=left|New Zealand|82||
|align=left|Greig Laidlaw|align=left||79||
|align=left|Ayumu Goromaru|align=left||58||

### Overall

- Total number of points scored: **2,439**
- Average points per match: **50.8**
- Total number of tries scored: **271** <small>(including 6 penalty tries)</small>
- Average tries per match: **5.65**
- Total number of braces: **26**
- Total number of hat-tricks: **8**
- Total number of conversions missed: **77**
- Total number of conversions scored: **194**
- Conversion success rate: **71.6%**
- Total number of penalty goals missed: **64**
- Total number of penalty goals scored: **227**
- Penalty goal success rate: **78.0%**
- Total number of drop goals scored: **8**
- Total number of penalty tries awarded: **6**

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: 2015 Rugby World Cup
- **image**: Rugby World Cup Trophy.JPG
- **size**: 250px
- **country**: England
- **dates**: 18 September – 31 October
- **num teams**: 20 (96 qualifying)
- **confederations**: 6
- **venues**: 13
- **cities**: 11
- **champion other**: New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand
- **count**: 3
- **second other**: Australia national rugby union team, Australia
- **prevseason**: 2011 Rugby World Cup, 2011
- **nextseason**: 2019 Rugby World Cup, 2019