{"id":20464,"date":"2025-12-04T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/springboks-drawn-with-italy-georgia-romania-for-2027-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:47","slug":"springboks-drawn-with-italy-georgia-romania-for-2027-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/springboks-drawn-with-italy-georgia-romania-for-2027-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Springboks drawn with Italy, Georgia, Romania for 2027 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Two-time defending Rugby World Cup Champions Springboks have received a very favorable draw for the 2027 World Cup in Australia. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Springboks have been drawn in Group B along with Italy, Georgia and Romania.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They played Italy three times this year and Georgia once, winning all four of those encounters.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Springboks northern neighbor, Zimbabwe who\u2019ll be playing in their first World Cup since 1991, are in Group F with England, Wales and Tonga.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Australia will play in the opening match in Perth and their opponents could be Bledisloe Cup rivals, New Zealand, they are both in Group A.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The draw was conducted in Sydney <span dir=\"ltr\">on Wednesday morning<\/span>, while the fixtures will only be confirmed in February.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15596,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-20464","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Springboks have been drawn in Group B along with Italy, Georgia and Romania.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The Springboks have been drawn in Group B along with Italy, Georgia and Romania.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24491,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20464\/revisions\/24491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}