The 2013 Women's Qualification Tournament was the 18th annual rugby tournament organised by FIRA for the continent's national teams and also a qualification tournament for
2014 Women's Rugby World Cup
The 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup was the seventh edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup, and the sixth held in Europe. The World Cup Final took place on 17 August.
All of the pool games for the World Cup took place at the Centre National du ...
. Six teams took part - the fifth and sixth ranked teams from the Six Nations, based on 2012 and 2013 results, Italy and Scotland; the finalist from the
2012 European Championship, Spain (the winner, England, being already qualified); the two finalists from
2012 European Group B, Sweden and the Netherlands; and Oceania's entrant Samoa, who were disputing a qualification place from one of the European teams.
The trophy was won by , with in second place. These two teams qualified for the World Cup the following year in France. The Spanish won their qualification on the final day by beating Italy, who had been leading the provisional rankings, by a score of 38–7.
Format
The tournament used a split pool format. The six teams were seeded and divided into two pools of three. The teams played one match against each of the teams in the opposite pool. The tournament rankings were determined based on the number of points accumulated from each match.
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Round one
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Round two
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Round three
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Leading try scorers
Leading point scorers
See also
*Women's international rugby union
Women's international rugby union has a history dating back to the late 19th century. It was not until 1982 that the first international fixture ( test match) took place. The match was organised in connection with the Dutch Rugby Union's 50th anni ...
Notes
External links
Rugby Europe website WRWC Madrid
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2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
2013 rugby union tournaments for national teams
International women's rugby union competitions hosted by Spain
2012–13 in European women's rugby union
2012–13 in Scottish rugby union
2012–13 in Italian rugby union
2013 in Samoan rugby union
2013 in Spanish women's sport
2013 in Dutch women's sport
2013 in Scottish women's sport
2013 in Italian women's sport
2013 in Swedish women's sport
2012–13 in Spanish rugby union