It will start in 2026 and will integrate it with the most powerful teams in the world. When does it start and how will it be played?
world rugby announced the creation of a new top-level league from 2026 in which they will participate The Pumas along with other selections from Tier 1in the middle of world which takes place in France and in which the Argentine team will play the match for third place against England.
What tournament will Los Pumas play?
This is the Nations Cup, a tournament that will bring together all the teams competing in the Rugby Championship (Los Pumas, All Blacks, South Africa and Australia), the Six Nations -Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland, France and Italy- and will have two guests: Fiji, the overall sensation of this World Cup, and Japana team that has been doing things well for some time and has even had the pleasure of beating the Springboks in a World Cup.
All these teams will compete in the Nations Cup First Division and there will be a promotion category called Challenger Series, in which the teams that are located between 13 and 24 in the world ranking will compete, which, for the moment, would be Portugal, Georgia, Samoa, Tonga, Uruguay, United States, Spain, Romania, Namibia, Chile, Canada and Hong Kong.
This category will have a promotion system and those who finish in the last positions of the First division will be relegated, but this measure will only begin to come into effect from 2030, a situation that provoked some criticism from prominent figures in world rugby, such as Agustín Pichotwho voted against, highlighting that this “will not mean progress for emerging nations.”
The Nations Cup It will be played in one round on a biannual basis between the international matches that will be played in July and November: the Argentine Rugby Union (UAR) was the only one of the Tier 1 who voted against this project because he does not agree that the promotion and relegation system will only apply from 2030.
In the tournament package he released world rugbythe new version of the Pacific Nations Cupin which they will compete Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and the United States and whose final will be played alternately in Japan and in the United States.
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