The 2019 Rugby World Cup qualification for the Americas region, both Rugby Americas North and Sudamérica Rugby, began in March 2016. Twenty teams will compete for the two direct qualification spots available in the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, and one spot in the Repechage.
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Format
The qualification process for the Americas region will be a four-round process, the same process used for the 2015 Americas qualification. Round 1 took place in 2016, where the 2016 Rugby Americas North Championship acted as the qualification tournament, Round 1A. The nine World Rugby members in RAN were separated into two zones, a south and north zone. The bottom placed team from the 2015 tournament, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines had to play returning team to the tournament, Jamaica, to earn the right to compete in the main tournament, with the winner of the qualifier match joining the south zone. The winners of each zone will then compete in the Championship final to earn the right to progress to the Round 1 final, to play the winners of Round 1B, which is formed by the 2016 South American Rugby Championship "B". The winner of the Round 1 final, will advance to Round 2.
Round 2 also took place in 2016, with the 2016 South American Rugby Championship "A" forming Round 2A. The team placed bottom at the end of the Championship will play the winner of Round 1 in a Sudamérica Rugby A/B relegation playoff, the winner of the playoff advancing to Round 3, the loser, therefore, being eliminated.
Round 3 took place in 2017, with the top Sudamérica Rugby division, 2017 South American Rugby Championship "A", forming Round 3A. The winner of that round, Uruguay, advanced to Round 4, where they will play a home-and-away playoff series against the loser of Round 3B. Round 3B was formed by a home-and-away playoff series between the top two Americas nations, Canada and the United States, with the USA winning the series and qualifying as Americas 1.
Round 4 will match Uruguay and Canada in a home-and-away playoff series in 2018. The winner of the playoff series will qualify as Americas 2, with the loser advancing to the Repechage as Americas 3 for a second chance to qualify.
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Entrants
The 2019 Rugby World Cup qualifying teams that will compete for the 2019 Rugby World Cup - Americas qualification. (World rankings are as of the first Americas qualification match on 5 March 2016.)
Notes:
- Rankings indicated as of 5 March 2016, as per first Americas qualification match.
- Bolded teams have previously played in a Rugby World Cup.
Round 1
Round 1A: 2016 Rugby Americas North Championship
The qualifying match between Jamaica and St Vincent and the Grenadines was the first qualifying match for the 2019 tournament, three-and-a-half years before the start of the tournament. Jamaica defeated St Vincent and the Grenadines 48-0, eliminating them from qualifying. The match was played in front of a record crowd of 1,000 at Arnos Vale Sports Complex, and was refereed by Nigel Owens who had refereed the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final. The victory boosted Jamaica to a World Rugby ranking of 72, their highest ever.
Qualifier
North Zone
South Zone
Championship final
Round 1B: 2016 CONSUR Rugby Championship B
Qualifier
2016 CONSUR Rugby Championship B
The 2016 South American Rugby Championship "B" was held in October 2016 and hosted by Peru in Lima.
Round 1 Final
Round 2
Round 2A: 2016 CONSUR Rugby Championship "A"
Round 2 Final
Round 3
Round 3A: 2017 CONSUR Rugby Championship "A"
Round 3B: United States v Canada Home & Away playoffs
Notes:
- D. T. H. van der Merwe surpassed Winston Stanley's record of 24 tries to become Canada's top try scorer.
Notes:
- This USA win means the USA qualifies as the leading Qualifying Americas nation for the first time ever, with previous attempts seeing the USA qualify as Americas 2 or 3.
Americas Repechage play-off
The lower ranked team of the series will host the first fixture, and the return fixture will be hosted by the higher ranked country.
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