2017 World Rugby Nations Cup

The 2017 World Rugby Nations Cup was the twelfth edition of the World Rugby Nations Cup rugby union tournament, created by World Rugby. It was the first ever tournament to be played outside of Romania and without their national team, with Uruguay hosting the competition.

Like in 2016, the tournament featured six teams split in two pools of three, where the three European teams; Emerging Italy, Russia and Spain played the other three teams; Argentina XV, Namibia and Uruguay.

Hosts Uruguay won the tournament, the first time they had done so in five previous attempts. It is the third year in a row where the hosts capitalized on the home advantage to claim the title, with previous hosts Romania winning in 2015 and 2016.

Teams
Below are the competing teams with their World Rugby Rankings as of the first tournament date (10 June 2017):
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Matchday 1
Notes:
 * Lesley Klim, Johan Retief and Mahepisa Tjeriko (all Namibia) and Jean-Baptiste Custoja, Fred Quercy, Andrea Rabago and Afa Tauli (all Spain) made their international debuts.

Notes:
 * This was the first ever time that Russia has beaten Argentina XV (formally known as Argentina Jaguars).
 * Kirill Gubin (Russia) made his international debut.

Notes:
 * Agustín Della Corte (Uruguay) made his international debut.

Matchday 2
Notes:
 * Emiliano Calle, Inaki Mateu and Tomás Munilla (all Spain) made their international debut.

Notes:
 * Alexander Budychenko and Evgeni Nepeivoda (both Russia) made their international debuts.

Matchday 3
Notes:
 * Justin Newman and Cliven Loubser (both Namibia) and Evgeni Mishechkin (Russia) made their international debuts.