2025 Women's Rugby World Cup Pool B

Pool B of the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup began in August 2025. The pool includes Canada, Fiji, Scotland and Wales.

Teams

The draw for the pool stage took place on 17 October 2024 in London. A seeding system was used for the draw, with teams allocated a seed based on their World Rugby Women's World Rankings as of 14 October 2024. The top four teams in the rankings were placed into band 1 and prepopulated into the first position in each pool. The remaining 12 teams were drawn into bands 2, 3, and 4 based on their rankings and drawn one by one.

Standings

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Matches

The match schedule was confirmed by World Rugby on 22 October 2024. The first match of pool B is Scotland vs Wales.

Scotland vs Wales

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Notes:

• This was Scotland's largest ever win over Wales, and their largest margin of victory in a World Cup match since beating Russia by 66–0 in 1994.
• Lisa Neumann (Wales) earned her 50th test cap.

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Canada vs Fiji

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Notes:

• Olivia DeMerchant was originally named to start for Canada but withdrew through injury; DaLeaka Menin came into the XV, with Maya Montiel added to the bench.

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Canada vs Wales

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Notes:

• Sophie de Goede became Canada's all-time top test points scorer (262), surpassing the previous record held by Magali Harvey.
• Gwenllian Pyrs (Wales) earned her 50th test cap.
• Branwen Metcalfe (Wales) made her international debut.

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Scotland vs Fiji

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Canada vs Scotland

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Notes:

• Tyson Beukeboom earned her 81st cap to became Canada's most capped player – male or female – in test history, surpassing the previous record of 80 held by Aaron Carpenter.
• Brittany Kassil, Courtney O'Donnell (both Canada) and Sarah Bonar (Scotland) earned their 50th test caps.

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Wales vs Fiji

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Notes:

• With this defeat, Wales dropped to 12th place in the World Rugby Rankings – their lowest position since the rankings were established in 2003.

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Notes

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