2006_Women's_Rugby_World_Cup Knowpia

2006 Women's Rugby World Cup
Coupe du monde de rugby féminin 2006
Tournament details
Host nation	Canada
Dates	August 31 – September 17 2006
No. of nations	12
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand (3rd title)
Runner-up	England
Tournament statistics
Matches played	30
Top scorer(s)	Heather Moyse (35)
Most tries	Heather Moyse (7)
	← 2002 2010 →

The 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup (officially IRB Rugby World Cup 2006 Canada) took place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The tournament began on 31 August and ended on 17 September 2006. The 2006 tournament was the third World Cup approved by the IRB, the previous two being held 2002 in Spain and in the Netherlands, in 1998. The Black Ferns of New Zealand won the 2006 World Cup, defeating England in the final, as they had in 2002. It was New Zealand's third successive title.

The semi-finals were also direct repeats of the 2002 tournament – in fact five of the top six places in the final rankings were unchanged. Elsewhere the USA advanced from 7th in 2002 to 5th, and Ireland climbed from 14th to 8th while Australia (5th to 7th), Spain (8th to 9th), and Samoa (9th to 10th) slipped down.

The period prior to the competition had not been without controversy. The decision to award the hosting of the competition to Canada ahead of a strong bid from England surprised many.

In addition – apart from in Asia – there were no qualifying tournaments for the 2006 World Cup. Instead teams were invited to take part by the IRB with selection based on performances at the World Cup in 2002 and in international matches between 2002 and 2005. This resulted in accusations of a lack of clarity in regard to some selection decisions. In particular the awarding of the final place in the tournament to Samoa instead of Wales (following a poor performance by Wales in the 2005 Six Nations) was the cause of some controversy and comment prior to the event.

Qualifiers edit

Asia edit

2005-06-03

Hong Kong	0–78	Japan

Bangkok

2005-06-03

Thailand	0–67	Kazakhstan

Bangkok

2005-06-05

Thailand	20–18	Hong Kong

Bangkok

2005-06-05

Kazakhstan	19–3	Japan

Bangkok

Kazakhstan qualify

Tickets and sponsorship edit

Tickets had been available since July 2006 and they could be purchased online at Ticketmaster or by phone. There were individual and student tickets (for each of six match days), tickets for youth teams and clubs, corporate packages and a special "World Cup Pack" of $125 allowing access to all matches including the finals.^[1]^[2]
The partners of this tournament were Toyota "Never Quit" Awards Program, Molson, Tait Radio Communications, Glentel, Budget, University of Alberta, Edmonton Airports and Clubfit. The event was covered by English language network Global TV, daily newspaper Edmonton Journal and radio stations CFRN 1260, CFBR 100.3 and CFMG 104.9.^[3]
All matches were filmed and for the first time were available via streamed media.^[4] The final was also broadcast live on TV in a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, and a one-hour TV highlights programme was produced by IMG for wider distribution, while these recordings are held as part of the IRB's World Cup archive.^[5]

Match officials edit

On July 6, 2006 the IRB Referee Selection Committee announced the appointment of match officials, with twelve women officials selected for the tournament consisting of eight referees and four touch judges. This panel was assisted by experienced international referees George Ayoub, Lyndon Bray, Malcolm Changleng and Simon McDowell, who were appointed in April.^[6] Other three touch judges from Canada Rugby Union were included in the final list.^[7]

REFEREES: George Ayoub (Australia); Jenny Bental (South Africa); Rachel Boyland (Switzerland); Lyndon Bray (New Zealand); Malcolm Changleng (Scotland); Sarah Corrigan (Australia); Clare Daniels (England); Christine Hanizet (France); Joyce Henry (Canada); Nicky Inwood (New Zealand); Kerstin Ljungdahl (Germany); Simon McDowell (Ireland)

TOUCH JUDGES: Debbie Innes (England); Kristina Mellor (New Zealand); Kristi Moorman (Canada); Sandy Nesbitt (Canada); Kim Smit (South Africa); Dana Teagarden (United States); Todd Van Vliet (Canada)

Format edit

The competition was contested over 18 days between 12 teams, allocated to four pools of three and structured into two parts:

a pool stage, with 18 matches played from August 31 to September 8;
a knockout stage, divided in semifinals and finals, played from September 12 to 17.

Pool stage edit

The first three match days saw a cross-pool league system in operation, with Pool A playing Pool D and Pool B playing Pool C, with points going towards one single division table for all four pools. Classification within each pool was based on the following scoring system:

four points for a win;
two points for a draw;
zero points for a loss of 8 points or more.

Bonus points were awarded for teams scoring 4 tries or more and losing by 7 points or less. No extra time were played.
Teams were ranked 1–12 on the basis of the most match points. If two teams were equal on match points for any position, then the following criteria would be used in this order until one of the teams could be determined as the higher ranked:

the winner of the match between the two teams;
the best differential between points scored for and points scored against;
the best differential between tries scored for and against;
the most points scored;
the most tries scored;
the toss of a coin.^[8]

Knockout stage edit

After three match days, with each team having played three pool matches, positional semifinals were played with the top four-positioned sides vying to make the Women's Rugby World Cup final and all other sides playing matches in the final two rounds to decide tournament rankings.

If no winner could be determined within the time allowed, two teams should have played an extra time of 10 minutes each way with an interval of 5 and then eventually a kicking competition.^[8]

Squads edit

Pools edit

Pool A edit

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
New Zealand	3	3	0	137	7	+130	14
Spain	3	1	2	14	115	−101	4
Kazakhstan	3	0	3	22	97	−75	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Pool B edit

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
England	3	3	0	119	16	+103	14
Australia	3	1	2	88	42	+46	6
Ireland	3	1	2	48	67	−19	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Pool C edit

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
France	3	2	1	75	37	+38	10
United States	3	2	1	34	35	−1	9
South Africa	3	0	3	20	179	−159	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Pool D edit

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Canada	3	2	1	131	71	+60	10
Scotland	3	2	1	56	38	+18	10
Samoa	3	1	2	32	69	−37	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Pool matches edit

Round one edit

2006-08-31

New Zealand	66–7	Canada

Semi-finals		Final

12 September - St. Albert

Samoa	43
		16 September - Edmonton (Ellerslie)
South Africa	10
		Samoa	5
12 September - Edmonton (Ellerslie)
		Spain	10
Spain	17

Kazakhstan	12
		Third place

		16 September - Edmonton (Ellerslie)

		South Africa	0

		Kazakhstan	36

Points	Name	Team	Position	Apps	Tries	Conv	Penalties	Drops
35	Heather Moyse	Canada	Fullback	5	7	0	0	0
34	Emma Jensen	New Zealand	Scrum-half	5	1	10	3	0
33	Valuese Sao Taliu	Samoa	Fullback	5	5	4	0	0
31	Shelley Rae	England	Fly-half	5	1	10	2	0
30	Sue Day	England	Centre/Wing	5	6	0	0	0
	Maria Gallo	Canada	Centre/Wing	5	6	0	0	0
	Amiria Marsh	New Zealand	Fullback	5	6	0	0	0
	Tobie McGann	Australia	Fullback/Fly-half	5	2	4	4	0
29	Kelly McCallum	Canada	Fly-half	5	0	13	1	0
27	Paula Chalmers	Scotland	Scrum-half	5	1	5	3	1
25	Tricia Brown	Australia	Wing	5	5	0	0	0
25	Catherine Devillers	France	Wing	5	5	0	0	0
23	Pam Kosanke	United States	Centre	4	2	5	1	0
21	Estelle Sartini	France	Fly-half/Wing	5	2	4	1	0

Summary

Qualifiers edit

Asia edit

Tickets and sponsorship edit

Match officials edit

Format edit

Pool stage edit

Knockout stage edit

Squads edit

Pools edit

Pool A edit

Pool B edit

Pool C edit

Pool D edit

Pool matches edit

Round one edit

Round two edit

Round three edit

Knock-out stages edit

9th-12th place classification play-offs edit

Semi-finals edit

11th/12th place play-off edit

9th/10th place play-off edit

5th-8th classification play-offs edit

Semi-finals edit

7th/8th place play-off edit

5th/6th place play-off edit

Finals edit

Semi-finals edit

3rd/4th place play-off edit

World Cup Final edit

Statistics edit

Teams edit

Individual records edit

Top point scorers edit

Top try scorers edit

References edit

External links edit