Rugby World Cup Quarter Finals Predictions
The eagerly awaited event of worldwide rugby sees the game's best teams vie for the title of world champion in a tournament that lasts a month and in which they play some of the most exciting and best rugby of their lives. It is not only a competition of sport but also, in a very real sense, a coming together of different cultures, for France is the 2023 host and it will be much more than just a festival of sport when the union of different cultures in that part of Western Europe as a result of the 2023 Rugby World Cup simply cannot be underscored.
Rugby World Cup Dates
The top eight sides from the pool stages will move on to the quarter-finals, which take place on two different days, October 14 and 15, 2025. The quarter-final pairings will have the winners of each pool face the runners-up from a different pool, as follows:
- Quarter-final 1: Winner of Pool A vs Runner-up of Pool B
- Quarter-final 2: Winner of Pool B vs Runner-up of Pool A
- Quarter-final 3: Winner of Pool C vs Runner-up of Pool D
- Quarter-final 4: Winner of Pool D vs Runner-up of Pool C
The quarter-final matches will occur in four different cities in France: Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux, and Paris. The precise venues and times for the matches have not yet been set.
The quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup are one of the most fiercely contested phases of this world tournament. Matches here seem almost guaranteed to deliver big-time excitement and drama. Just look at some of the results from Rugby World Cup 2019 and the electrifying atmosphere these contests generated: Japan's stunning upset of South Africa, a contest decided in the final minutes by Wales over France, and a showdown between England and Australia that had everyone holding their breath. Here is a closer look at the Rugby World Cup 2019 quarter-finals.
For fans of the sport, the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup are a nail-biting and dramatic event, with tension and excitement mounting toward the knockout stages. The 2025 installment of the tournament is likely to be just as intense, with the top eight teams from the pool play levels of the contest vying for four spots in the semi-finals and a shot at the coveted Webb Ellis Cup.