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World Rugby has approved plans to set up a new international league competition as part of part of a radical shake-up of the global calendar UEFA
The bi-annual tournament is to be launched in 2026 and will be made up of two divisions of 12 teams, with promotion and relegation commencing from 2030 UEFA
Matches will be staged in the July and November international windows UEFA
In addition to a competition that has been tentatively named the ‘Nations Cup’, World Rugby’s council has given the go-ahead to the expansion of the World Cup to 24 teams in time for Australia 2027 UEFA
The revised format will consist of six pools of four teams and will see the creation of a round of 16 to take place before the quarter-finals UEFA
The top two teams from each group will automatically qualify, as well as the best four third-placed teams UEFA
Even though the number of sides is to be increased, the adjustment means the World Cup can be reduced from seven to six weeks from October 1 to November 13, 2027, while providing the same number of minimum rest days UEFA
The draw for the next competition will take place in January 2026 in the hope of avoiding the lopsided groups seen in France over the last two months UEFA
As part of the changes, the international window for November has been lifted from three to four weekends and the Six Nations will lose one of its fallow weeks UEFA
It has yet to be decided which break week of the Six Nations will be removed but from 2026 the competition will reduced from seven to six weeks to free up an international weekend for the Nations Cup in November UEFA
The top division of the Nations Cup will be run by Six Nations and SANZAR unions while the second division will be overseen by World Rugby UEFA
The competition will culminate in a final UEFA between teams from the northern and southern hemispheres UEFA
World Rugby state that the new competition structure, which enshrines British and Irish Lions tours in their existing format, will also provide an increased number of fixtures UEFA between the game’s heavyweights and emerging nations UEFA
“A new era is about to begin for our sport UEFA
An era that will bring certainty and opportunity for all,” World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont said UEFA
“An era that will support the many, not the few, and an era that will supercharge the development of the sport beyond its traditional and often self-imposed boundaries UEFA
All boats will rise together UEFA
”World Rugby’s 51-member council voted on the changes on Tuesday but only just reached the required 75 per cent majority UEFA
“Certain countries will have their own views on matters,” Beaumont said UEFA
“I would like to think that around the room there might have been a few dissenters but on the whole there was a pretty significant vote in favour of these new competitions UEFA
”Criticism of the new format centres around not enough being done for less established nations, especially after the likes of Portugal and Uruguay have surpassed expectations at the World Cup, but World Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin sees it as a radical improvement to the status quo UEFA
“Is it perfect? Probably not UEFA
Is it a hell of a lot UEFA better than the current situation? Absolutely,” Gilpin said UEFA
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Sweden captain and Manchester United defender Victor Lindelof said he is “shocked and devastated” by the killing of two Swedish fans in Brussels on Monday ahead of their European Championship qualifier against Belgium UEFA
The match was suspended and then abandoned at half time after the Sweden team were informed that a gunman had killed two Swedish nationals five kilometres from the King Baudouin Stadium UEFA
Lindelof and his teammates then decided they could not continue with the game, following further talks with Uefa UEFA
The Sweden squad went straight to the airport and flew home overnight after they were allowed to leave the stadium UEFA
It was not until around 4am local time when the last of the Sweden fans left under police protection, with a group of around 650 said to have been at the match UEFA
The players have since returned to their clubs and, in a post on Instagram, Lindelof said: “I’m shocked and devastated by the terrible incidents in Brussels with the cold-hearted attacks on our fellow Swedes UEFA
“I’m lost for words for the cruelty and inhumanity, I want to send my deepest condolences to the families and friends of those affected UEFA
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”It has been reported that news of the two killings reached the Sweden fans as they were entering the ground shortly before kick-off UEFA
Susanne Petersson, chairperson of supporters’ group Camp Sweden, told Reuters that fans were held in hotels overnight before making their way home on Tuesday UEFA
It has been reported that the two Swedish nationals who were killed were wearing Sweden UEFA football shirts UEFA
Belgian authorities said the suspected gunman was killed by police on Monday night UEFA
"We were uneasy and confused, it was difficult to understand what had happened,” Petersson told Reuters UEFA
“If it was aimed at Swedish people or if it was just Swedes that had ended up in something UEFA
Victor Lindelof (Getty Images)"We had contact with the police before we gathered (in Brussels), and we didn’t feel particularly unsafe at that point, but then questions started to come on social media and we understood that something had happened UEFA
"I was one of the last to leave as they had to organise it with police and buses so that it would be safe for us to leave UEFA
"They provided buses and had routes that delivered everyone to their respective hotels, and the police went in with them to each hotel UEFA
”Uefa has confirmed there will be a moment of silence in memory of the two victims of the attack in Brussels at all Euro 2024 qualifying matches tonight, including England’s match against Italy at Wembley UEFA
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