The World Cup opening ceremony is on from 10.30am UK-time on Friday, 20 September, followed by the opening game kicking off at 11.45am, as hosts Japan take on Russia.

Under ITV’s deal, the Women’s Rugby World Cup, to be held this year in Ireland, and the World Rugby U20 Championship will be available for the first time on free-to-air television.

In 2011, ITV secured a deal to televise the 2011 and 2015 tournaments by paying a reported £60million. This year’s edition of the Rugby World Cup is being staged in Japan.

The World Cup will be hosted in nine French cities from 8 September until 28 October. Here is your guide to the presenters, pundits and commentators you will hear during the tournament. Pundits ...

World Rugby has announced details of an extensive broadcast partnership with UK commercial broadcaster ITV that will see it exclusively showcase World Rugby’s biggest 15s properties. Under the deal, ...

It cost ITV, who have broadcast every tournament since 1991, £60 million to secure the 2011 and 2015 World Cup rights after World Rugby resisted a bid from Sky Sports to snatch them in 2010.

LONDON: ITV has secured the rights to broadcast the Rugby World Cup exclusively in the U.K. to 2023. The broadcaster clinched rights to air both men’s and women’s tournaments.

The World Cup will be hosted in nine French cities from 8 September until 28 October. Here is your guide to the presenters, pundits and commentators you will hear during the tournament.

Every match from the Rugby World Cup will again be shown on ITV. The terrestrial channel are the television rights holders for every game in the United Kingdom, continuing an agreement with rugby ...