2023 Rugby World Cup – Regional play-off and Final Qualification Tournament

The 2023 Rugby World Cup regional play-off and Final Qualification Tournament were the final two stages of the qualifying process for the 2023 Rugby World Cup. A cross-regional play-off match determined the Asia/Pacific play-off winner berth, after which a global repechage tournament between four teams (Africa 2, Americas 3, Europe 3 and the loser of the Asia/Pacific play-off) decided the twentieth and final team qualifying for the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

Tonga and Portugal secured the last two berths by winning respectively the Asia/Pacific play-off and Final Qualification Tournament.

Asia/Pacific play-off
This match will be a single leg qualification match between Asia 1 (the winner of the Asian qualification process) and Oceania 2 (the winner of Round 3 in the Oceania qualification process). The winner of this play-off qualifies for the World Cup as Asia/Pacific Play-off winner and join Pool B, whilst the loser advances to the Final Qualification Tournament.

Final Qualification Tournament
The Final Qualification Tournament will be contested as a four-team round-robin tournament and hosted at a neutral venue in Dubai, replicating the process first introduced for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The participating teams include the runner-up of the African qualification round 3 (Africa 2), the losing side of the Americas 2 qualifier (Americas 3), the third-ranked side of the Europe qualification (Europe 3), and the loser of the Asia/Oceania play-off (Asia 1 or Oceania 2). The winner will qualify for the 2023 Rugby World Cup and will join Pool C.

Teams
Five teams progressed to the regional play-off and Final Qualification Tournament stages for the final two non-regional seeds in the World Cup. World rankings are as per date progressing to the play-off phase.

Asia/Pacific play-off
Notes:
 * This was the first meeting between the two sides.

Round 1
Notes:
 * Cory Daniel, Viliami Helu, Jack Iscaro, Ryan Rees, Nathan Sylvia and Mitch Wilson (all United States) made their international debuts.
 * This was the first meeting between these two nations.

Notes:
 * Sean Taylor (Hong Kong) made his international debut.
 * This was Portugal's first victory over Hong Kong.
 * No replacement was issued for João Granate.

Round 2
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 * Nickolas Cumming (Hong Kong) made his international debut.

Round 3
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 * José Lima (Portugal) earned his 50th test cap.
 * This was the first draw between these two sides.
 * With this result, Portugal qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 2007.
 * With this result, USA miss the World Cup for the first time since 1995.