1994 Women's Rugby World Cup

1994 Women's Rugby World Cup
Cupa Cruinne Rugbaidh nam Ban 1994
Tournament details
Host nation	Scotland
Dates	11 – 24 April 1994
No. of nations	12
Final positions
Champions	England (1st title)
Runner-up	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
	← 1991 1998 →

The 1994 Women's Rugby World Cup was the second world cup for women. It was originally scheduled to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands (10–24 April) but was cancelled only weeks before. However, a replacement competition was organised around the same dates in Scotland. England beat the defending champions USA 38–23 in the final.

Background

The official reason for the cancellation was that the event organisers failed to get official endorsement of the event as the "Women's World Cup" from the International Rugby Board (IRB). The minutes of the 1993 Interim meeting of the IRB state the following about the "1994 Women's International Tournament":

"The Council agreed to defer consideration of participation by member unions in the tournament until such time as a formal request is received from the organizers."^[1]

Hence not only was there uncertainty to whether it really was the "Women's World Cup" or not, but the IRB refused to endorse it regardless of its status – the "deferral" (above) was in practice a refusal to endorse as the next scheduled IRB meeting was only days before the event was due to start. It was not until 2009 that the IRB officially endorsed the event as a "world cup" when it published, for the first time, a list of previous winners.^[2]

Because of this, the Unions of some countries decided not to pay team expenses (including New Zealand, where women's rugby was by now fully integrated in the national union, and ultimately others as well) or withdrew their entries. Several team members decided to go ahead and raised the money themselves, but the surrounding uncertainty of the event status and the financial risk from teams pulling out prompted the event organizers to (rather abruptly) cancel it.

The women who had trained so hard, and had gone to much trouble raising money etc., were so disappointed at the cancellation that an alternative tournament in Scotland was soon organized. Despite the IRB threatening sanctions against unions taking part in this unendorsed event, it went ahead.

This Women's Rugby World Cup, like its predecessor in 1991, was never endorsed by the IRB and the Scottish organizers did not pursue official sanctioning. However, all of the participating teams regarded it as the "real" World Cup.

Eventually eleven of the original sixteen entrants took part – as well as New Zealand, Netherlands also withdrew from both participation as well as hosts, and Spain pulled out very late – after the groups had been drawn – and were replaced by a Scottish Students team. Italy and Germany were also notable absentees. The Soviet Union would have competed but due to their dissolution, they were replaced by Russia and Kazakhstan.

Once the event was underway it proved to be a great success,^[3] England exacting revenge for their 1991 defeat to USA, beating the defending champions 38–23 in the final.

Squads

Match Officials

J Fleming (Boroughmuir)^[4]

Pool stages

Pool A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD
United States	2	2	0	232	0	+232
Japan	2	1	1	10	126	−116
Sweden	2	0	2	5	121	−116

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

11 April 1994

Sweden	0–111	United States

Melrose

13 April 1994

Japan	10–5	Sweden

Melrose

15 April 1994

Japan	0–121	United States

Melrose

Pool B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD
England	2	2	0	92	0	+92
Scotland	2	1	1	51	26	+25
Russia	2	0	2	0	117	−117

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

11 April 1994

England	66–0	Russia

Boroughmuir

13 April 1994

Scotland	51–0	Russia

Boroughmuir

15 April 1994

Scotland	0–26	England

Boroughmuir

Pool C

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD
France	2	2	0	108	8	+100
Ireland	2	1	1	18	36	−18
Scottish Students	2	0	2	13	95	−82

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

11 April 1994

Scottish Students	8–77	France

West of Scotland RFC

13 April 1994

Scottish Students	5–18	Ireland

West of Scotland RFC

15 April 1994

France	31–0	Ireland

West of Scotland RFC

Pool D

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD
Wales	2	2	0	40	13	+27
Canada	2	1	1	33	11	+22
Kazakhstan	2	0	2	8	57	−49

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

11 April 1994

Canada	5–11	Wales

Edinburgh Academicals RFC

13 April 1994

Kazakhstan	8–29	Wales

Edinburgh Academicals RFC

15 April 1994

Canada	28–0	Kazakhstan

Edinburgh Academicals RFC

Plate competition

Round robin

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Ladder
Kazakhstan	3	3	0	83	12	+71	9th
Sweden	3	2	1	46	56	−10	10th
Russia	3	1	2	37	57	−20	11th
Scottish Students	3	0	3	24	65	−41	12th

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

17 April 1994

Russia	13–20	Sweden

Kirkcaldy

17 April 1994

Scottish Students	0–27	Kazakhstan

Kirkcaldy

19 April 1994

Scottish Students	12–14	Sweden

Gala

19 April 1994

Kazakhstan	25–0	Russia

Gala

21 April 1994

Kazakhstan	31–12	Sweden

Stirling County

21 April 1994

Scottish Students	12–24	Russia

Stirling County

Plate final

23 April 1994

Kazakhstan	29–12	Sweden

Boroughmuir

Championship

Bracket

Championship

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

17 April – Gala

England	24
		20 April – Gala
Canada	10
		England	18
17 April – Edinburgh
		France	6
France	99
				24 April – Edinburgh
Japan	0
				England	38
17 April – Boroughmuir
				United States	23
United States	76
		20 April – Gala
Ireland	0
		United States	56
17 April – Melrose
		Wales	15	Third place
Wales	8
				24 April – Edinburgh
Scotland	0
				France	27

				Wales	0

Shield

Semi-finals		Final

20 April – Melrose

Canada	57
		23 April – Boroughmuir
Japan	0
		Canada	5
20 April – Melrose
		Scotland	11
Ireland	3

Scotland	10
		Third place

		23 April – Boroughmuir

		Ireland	11

		Japan	3

Quarter-finals

17 April 1994

United States	76–0	Ireland

Boroughmuir

17 April 1994

England	24–10	Canada

Gala

17 April 1994

France	99–0	Japan

Edinburgh Academicals RFC

17 April 1994

Scotland	0–8	Wales

Melrose

Championship semi-finals

20 April 1994

United States	56–15	Wales

Gala

20 April 1994

England	18–6	France

Gala

Shield semi-finals

20 April 1994

Canada	57–0	Japan

Melrose

20 April 1994

Scotland	10–3	Ireland

Melrose

Shield 3rd/4th (7th place)

23 April 1994

Ireland	11–3	Japan

Boroughmuir

Shield final (5th place)

23 April 1994

Scotland	11–5	Canada

Boroughmuir

Cup 3rd/4th place

24 April 1994

France	27–0	Wales

Edinburgh Academicals RFC

Cup final

24 April 1994

England	38–23	United States

Edinburgh Academicals RFC
Referee: Jim Fleming (Scotland)

1994 Women's Rugby World Cup winners
England First title

References

^ http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/clubs/womens_rugby/RugbyRoot/rugby/games/Sched94/womenswc.html. Retrieved 25 June 2009. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)^{[dead link‍]}
^ "IRB press release". Archived from the original on 2 December 2013.
^ "A History of the Women's World Cup". Users.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 12 December 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
^ Hughson, John (1 July 2016), "The Cup tradition and England 1966", England and the 1966 World Cup, Manchester University Press, pp. 12–31, doi:10.7228/manchester/9780719096150.003.0002, ISBN 978-0-7190-9615-0, retrieved 6 May 2021

External links

Previous World Cup Women's Rugby results

[1] ttp://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/clubs/womens_rugby/RugbyRoot/rugby/games/Sched94/womenswc.html. Retrieved 25 June 2009. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)^{[dead link‍]}

[2] "IRB press release". Archived from the original on 2 December 2013.

[3] "A History of the Women's World Cup". Users.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 12 December 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2012.

[4] Hughson, John (1 July 2016), "The Cup tradition and England 1966", England and the 1966 World Cup, Manchester University Press, pp. 12–31, doi:10.7228/manchester/9780719096150.003.0002, ISBN 978-0-7190-9615-0, retrieved 6 May 2021

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1994 Women's Rugby World Cup

Background

Squads

Match Officials

Pool stages

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Plate competition

Round robin

Plate final

Championship

Bracket

Championship

Shield

Quarter-finals

Championship semi-finals

Shield semi-finals

Shield 3rd/4th (7th place)

Shield final (5th place)

Cup 3rd/4th place

Cup final

See also

References

External links

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