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1999 Rugby World Cup: Play-off stage review. The 1999 Rugby World Cup quarter-final play-offs featured three knock-out matches. The first match saw England defeat Fiji 45-24. Scotland also enjoyed an easy match as they triumphed over Samoa 35-20. However, the third game between Ireland and Argentina delivered one of the tournament’s greatest ...
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The 1999 Rugby World Cup Final was the final match in the 1999 Rugby World Cup. It was played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales on 6 November 1999, between Australia and France with 72,500 in attendance. Australia won the game by 35 points to 12, and with it, their second World Cup, having also won the 1991 tournament in England.
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The 1999 Rugby World Cup (Welsh: Cwpan Rygbi'r Byd 1999), was the fourth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial international rugby union championship, the first World Cup to be held in the sport's professional era. [1] Contents. Qualifying; Venues; Pools and format; Squads; Referees; Pool stage; Pool A; Pool B; Pool C; Pool D; Pool E; Ranking of ...
Sep 7, 2019 · The final of the 1999 Rugby World Cup was over. Australia had won the William Webb Ellis trophy for a second time, defeating France 35-12. A magnificent Wallabies team, superbly coached, had ...
Wales won the right to host the World Cup in 1999. The centrepiece venue for the tournament was the Millennium Stadium, built on the site of the old National Stadium at Cardiff Arms Park at a cost of £126 million from Lottery money and private investment. Other venues in Wales were the Racecourse Ground and Stradey Park.
1999 Rugby World Cup. Four automatic qualification places were available for the 1999 tournament; Wales qualified automatically as hosts, and the other three places went to the top three teams from the previous World Cup in 1995: champions South Africa, runners-up New Zealand and third-placed France. 63 nations took part in the qualification ...
