2015 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup


The 2015 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup was the tenth edition of the World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup, an annual international rugby union tournament. The 2015 title was contested between the Tier 2 nations of Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and the United States.
Due to the 2015 Rugby World Cup, the tournament took place in July and August with all teams having access to overseas players. Like the 2014 IRB Pacific Nations Cup, the six teams were divided into two pools, but instead of playing each team from the same pool like in 2014, each team played the three teams from the opposing pool. Following the three rounds of cross pool matches, the six teams were seeded one through to six and played in three final play-offs to determine who finishes first to sixth. The final was contested between Fiji and Samoa, who had previously drawn 30–30 during the Cross-pool matches. Fiji won the final 39–29, scoring 6 tries to claim their second title.

Venues

Five venues will be used:
VenueCityCapacityRound
ANZ Stadium Suva15,000Round 1
Avaya Stadium San Jose18,000Round 1
BMO Field Toronto30,000Round 3
Bonney Field Sacramento8,000Round 2
Swangard Stadium Burnaby5,288Round 2 & Finals

Table

Fixtures

The full match schedule was announced on 19 February 2015.

Cross-pool matches

Round 1

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3rd Place play-off

5th Place play-off

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Final positioning

Statistics

Points scorers

Try scorers

Squads

Note: Number of caps and players' ages are indicated as of 18 July 2015 – the tournament's opening day, pre first tournament match.

Canada

Canada's 36-man squad for the 2015 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup.
Phil Mack, John Moonlight and Nathan Hirayama were late additions to the squad.
Harry Jones and Conor Trainor were added to the squad ahead of the Samoan match.
Nanyak Dala and Jake Ilnicki were added to the squad ahead of the United States final match.

Fiji

On 12 July 2015, Head Coach John McKee announced a 31-man squad for the 2015 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup. * denotes non-traveling reserves.

Japan

On 29 June 2015, Jones named a 37-man squad for the 2015 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup.

Samoa

Samoa 30-man squad for the 2015 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup.
Jack Lam was a late call up to the squad.

Tonga

On the 22 June, head coach Mana Otai announced their 31-man squad for the 2015 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup in Fiji and Canada. Five debutantes join a squad that draws on the experience of 2014's European Test squad, with familiar faces like Nili Latu returning to continue his string leadership role within the team.
Wayne Ngaluafe and Viliami Tahitu'a were called up for the Canada test.
Jack Ram was called up ahead of the USA test.

United States

United States 32-man squad for the 2015 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup.
Inaki Basauri, John Cullen, Tom Coolican, Lemoto Filikitonga, Ben Landry, Chad London, Samu Manoa, Tim Maupin, Ronnie McLean, Louis Mulholland, Zachary Pangelinan, Robbie Shaw, Mike Shepherd, Tim Stanfill, Kyle Sumsion, Matt Trouville, Tai Tuisamoa and Nicholas Wallace were all in the 2015 Rugby World Cup training squad, but was not selected for the final PNC squad.
Tim Stanfill and Nicholas Wallace were added to the main squad ahead of the round 3 clash with Tonga.