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Wales’ cup fate to be decided in December
Jul 4 2008 South Wales Echo
The 2011 Rugby World Cup draw will take place in London on December 1.
The 20 teams will be drawn into four pools of five. Of that 20, the 12 automatically qualified teams will be put into three bands dependent on their IRB world ranking on December 1 this year then drawn randomly into each respective pool.
The top four teams in the world will be in band one, teams ranked five to eight will be in band two and those ranked nine to 12 will be in band three.
The remaining eight teams will be put into bands four and five and drawn randomly into the four pools.
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