{"id":20138,"date":"2025-09-22T23:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/womens-rugby-world-cup-how-england-2025-became-biggest-tournament-ever\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T23:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:30:49","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-how-england-2025-became-biggest-tournament-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/womens-rugby-world-cup-how-england-2025-became-biggest-tournament-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Rugby World Cup: How England 2025 became biggest tournament ever"},"content":{"rendered":"


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For instance, minnows Brazil, far from home and with a low profile, had all three of their pool-stage fixtures put on in the immediate build-up or aftermath of a bigger fixture at the same stage, with Ireland, New Zealand and France helping shine a spotlight their way.<\/p>\n

Content creators were embedded with all the teams to produce off-pitch content that connected with fans with stories, teams and players they may not have known before.<\/p>\n

A video of Australia’s 18-year-old full-back Caitlyn Halse being hauled up into the stands in York, external<\/span><\/a> by her father was viewed more than 13m times on Rugby World Cup’s TikTok account.<\/p>\n

There was a shift to rugby’s traditional hotbeds for the knockout stages, delivering the biggest crowds for the biggest matches.<\/p>\n

The quarter-finals were a south-west affair, split between Exeter’s Sandy Park and Bristol’s Ashton Gate. The semi-finals – both staged in Bristol – attracted a combined total of 49,870 people.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s crowd will surpass the 58,498 who watched England beat France at the same stadium in the 2023 Six Nations – the previous record for a 15-a-side match – and the 66,000 who watched the women’s rugby sevens at Stade de France during the 2024 Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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