Rugby World Cup | Rugby 2011 | Fixtures | TV Guide | World Cup Tipping
The 2011 Rugby World Cup begins on Friday, September 9, and is being broadcast on Fox Sports 3 and Fox Sports 3HD on Foxtel and Austar, while Channel Nine are the free-to-air broadcaster covering the Rugby World Cup – and will show matches over traditional broadcast as well as digital channels Gem and Go. The Roar has compiled a Rugby World Cup TV schedule based on all available information.
Note this is a live page and changes will be made as new information comes to hand. Your assistance is appreciated – leave a comment should you be able to help.
All 48 Rugby World Cup matches will be broadcast live on Fox Sports 3 and Fox Sports 3HD. Channel 9 are broadcasting all Wallabies matches, selected pool matches and all quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final on October 23.
| Date | Match details | Kick off (AEDT) | FOX | Nine (Bris/Syd) | Nine (Adel/Melb/Perth) |
| Fri Sept 9 | New Zealand v Tonga | 6.30pm | LIVE | 9.45pm (Delayed) | LIVE (GEM): 6.00pm/6.30pm/4.30pm |
| Sat Sept 10 | Scotland v Romania | 11.00am | LIVE | - | - |
| Sat Sept 10 | Fiji v Namibia | 1.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sat Sept 10 | France v Japan | 4.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sat Sept 10 | Argentina v England | 6.30pm | LIVE | 10:35pm (Delayed) | 6.00pm/6.30pm (LIVE) 4.00pm (now LIVE) |
| Sun Sept 11 | Australia v Italy | 1.30pm | LIVE | 1.30pm (LIVE) | 1.30pm/11.30am – Perth (LIVE) |
| Sun Sept 11 | Ireland v USA | 4.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sun Sept 11 | South Africa v Wales | 6.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Wed Sept 14 | Samoa v Namibia | 12.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Wed Sept 14 | Tonga v Canada | 3.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Wed Sept 14 | Scotland v Georgia | 5.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Thu Sept 15 | Russia v USA | 5.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Fri Sept 16 | New Zealand v Japan | 6.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sat Sept 17 | Argentina v Romania | 1.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sat Sept 17 | South Africa v Fiji | 4.00pm | LIVE | 4.00pm (LIVE) | 3.25pm/3.55pm/1.55pm (LIVE) |
| Sat Sept 17 | Australia v Ireland | 6.30pm | LIVE | 8.45pm (Delayed) | 5.30pm (Adel, GEM, LIVE) 6.30pm (Melb, GEM, LIVE) 4.00pm (Perth, LIVE) |
| Sun Sept 18 | Wales v Samoa | 1.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sun Sept 18 | England v Georgia | 4.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sun Sept 18 | France v Canada | 6.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Tue Sept 20 | Italy v Russia | 5.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Wed Sept 21 | Tonga v Japan | 5.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Thu Sept 22 | South Africa v Namibia | 6.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Fri Sept 23 | Australia v USA | 6.30pm | LIVE | 9.45pm (Delayed) | 6.00pm/6.30pm/4.30pm (LIVE, GEM)
11.30pm/11.30pm/11.30pm (Delayed, Channel 9) |
| Sat Sept 24 | England v Romania | 3.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sat Sept 24 | New Zealand v France | 5.30pm | LIVE | 9.45pm (Delayed) | 6.00pm/6.30pm/4.30pm (LIVE, GEM) |
| Sun Sept 25 | Fiji v Samoa | 12.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sun Sept 25 | Ireland v Russia | 3.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sun Sept 25 | Argentina v Scotland | 5.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Mon Sept 26 | Wales v Namibia | 4.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Tue Sept 27 | Canada v Japan | 2.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Tue Sept 27 | Italy v USA | 4.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Wed Sept 28 | Georgia v Romania | 4.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Fri Sept 30 | South Africa v Samoa | 5.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sat Oct 1 | Australia v Russia | 12.30pm | LIVE | 12.30pm (LIVE) | 12.00pm/12.30pm/10.30am (LIVE) |
| Sat Oct 1 | France v Tonga | 3.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sat Oct 1 | England v Scotland | 5.30pm | LIVE | 5.30pm (LIVE, GEM) | 5.00pm/5.30pm (LIVE GEM, Adel/Melb) 11.50pm (Delayed NINE, Perth) |
| Sun Oct 2 | Argentina v Georgia | 11.00am | LIVE | - | - |
| Sun Oct 2 | New Zealand v Canada | 1.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sun Oct 2 | Wales v Fiji | 4.00pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sun Oct 2 | Ireland v Italy | 6.30pm | LIVE | - | - |
| Sat Oct 8 | Ireland v Wales | 4.00pm | LIVE | 3.00pm/4.00pm (LIVE) | 3.30pm/4.00pm/1.00pm (LIVE) |
| Sat Oct 8 | England v France | 6.30pm | LIVE | 5.30pm/6.30pm (LIVE) | 6.00pm/6.30pm (LIVE GEM, Adel/Melb) 3.30pm (LIVE NINE, Perth) |
| Sun Oct 9 | South Africa v Australia | 4.00pm | LIVE | 3.00pm/4.00pm (LIVE) | 3.30pm/4.00pm/1.00pm (LIVE) |
| Sun Oct 9 | New Zealand v Argentina | 6.30pm | LIVE | 5.30pm/6.30pm (LIVE, GEM) | 6.00pm/6.30pm (LIVE GEM, Adel/Melb) 3.30pm (LIVE NINE, Perth) |
| Sat Oct 15 | SF1: Wales v France | 7.00pm | LIVE | 6.00pm/7.00pm (LIVE) | 6.30pm/7.00pm/4.00pm (LIVE) |
| Sun Oct 16 | SF2: Australia v New Zealand | 7.00pm | LIVE | 6.00pm/7.00pm (LIVE) | 6.30pm/7.00pm/4.00pm (LIVE) |
| Fri Oct 21 | 3rd Place Play-Off | 6.30pm | LIVE | 5.30pm/6.30pm (LIVE,GEM) | 6.00pm/6.30pm/3.30pm (LIVE, GEM) |
| Sun Oct 23 | Final | 7.00pm | LIVE | 6.00pm/7.00pm (LIVE) | 6.30pm/7.00pm/4.00pm (LIVE) |
September 8th 2011 @ 7:22am
Matthew Skellett said | September 8th 2011 @ 7:22am | Report comment
No wonder you non-foxy guys and gals are mad! Channel Nine just aren’t showing enough.
October 21st 2011 @ 12:12pm
james farrz said | October 21st 2011 @ 12:12pm | Report comment
Not only is the coverage a joke, but the panel presenting the events seem be very pro Ozzy and have no clue about northern hemisphere rugby or at least dont give it the respect it deserves. When ireland defeated the wallabies they called it a major upset, a major upset to who exactly ? the irish showed they were far superior in every aspect of the game. When Wales played Ireland they were all suprised to see a running game of rugby, both teams especially wales have been playing like that for years they don’t all just play kick and chase . The only thing i agreed with them on was England looked poor but that was the same team that gave the Ozzy’s a hammering before the world cup.
The biggest joke of all was when they said Sam warbuton deserved a red card in the semi final, what a joke did you see Rocky Elsom intentionally try to bend Conrad Smith in half, the IRB didn’t even look at it while sam got a 3 week ban for a hard rugby tackle !
October 22nd 2011 @ 3:27pm
Byron said | October 22nd 2011 @ 3:27pm | Report comment
Major upset to most i’d reckon….
September 8th 2011 @ 11:09am
HeliG said | September 8th 2011 @ 11:09am | Report comment
If Channel 9 are the free to air broadcaster of this international event, then why are they not broadcasting more of these games? Hello Channel 9, Australia aren’t the only team playing in this competition. And the delayed coverage is an even bigger joke. Why would anyone sit up to 1.40am to watch a game that kicked off at 6.30pm the day before? Give us a break!
October 16th 2011 @ 7:13pm
GFC said | October 16th 2011 @ 7:13pm | Report comment
I agree!
It is Pathetic. An event watched everywhere by mostly intelligent people. I don’t want to watch a repeat, I want to cheer my team as they play. I have always complained about how stupid the tv producers dont use simple common knowledge.
Wake up Ch Nine, play Rugby live.!
Ch nine will get more viewers, immagine what this would do for Ch nine ratings!
Channel nines ratings would increase if they committed to playing live telecasts. If it were persistant and consistent of commiting this time for live Rugby, Rugby supporters will know, (guarateed) that its on ch nine live for viewing. I hate guessing or looking up web sites in advance to see whether it is telecasted live I also cant stand going to a dirty pub full of idiots (AFL supporters with long necks). wanting to ask questions how the game is played.
Conclusion: Play live Rugby channel nine (please)
P.s Intelligent people watch and play Rugby. (by experience).
Results show: Ch Nine will benefit more by telecasting Rugby live just as much or better than ARL.
October 19th 2011 @ 8:58pm
JS said | October 19th 2011 @ 8:58pm | Report comment
Please tell me it isn’t true that the final won’t be broadcast by Nine! Do they really think Australians have lost all intereste simply because they’re not in the final? Of course we’re interested! I don’t want to go to the pub to watch. Should we all blitz Nine? How do we do that?
October 20th 2011 @ 11:32am
HardcorePrawn said | October 20th 2011 @ 11:32am | Report comment
They’re broadcasting both the Bronze Final and the Final in Melbourne on Nein (and probably on Gem in HD too I imagine, they did for the SFs). Is this not the same for all states?
And if you want to hurt Nein, stop watching it, I intend to switch off immediately after the final, then never again watch that pile of crud excuse of a channel.
Advertisers, are you paying attention!?
October 20th 2011 @ 11:43am
JS said | October 20th 2011 @ 11:43am | Report comment
I was looking at the schedule on this site, which mentions only LIVE. I just looked at the channel listings, though, and HardcorePrawn is right. The final will be shown on 9.
September 8th 2011 @ 5:09pm
Ian said | September 8th 2011 @ 5:09pm | Report comment
The lack of coverage for those of us in Victoria is annoying, hey this is a major sport and there are 1000s of rugby fans in Victoria, i guess we don’t matter to channel 9′s advertisers.
Give the World Cup to SBS. At least we’d get to see some of it.
Channel 9 is willing to show us more crap that can be mentioned and more so with the new so called freeview, fact is it’s less for more. I’ll be going to the pub instead.
September 16th 2011 @ 3:02am
Tracey said | September 16th 2011 @ 3:02am | Report comment
I agree Ian SBS do a great job of showing every game and this crap from channel 9 is a complete joke it is the World Cup well channel 9 after this i will not bother watching.
September 8th 2011 @ 5:15pm
Susie said | September 8th 2011 @ 5:15pm | Report comment
And even some of the Australian games are not being shown live!!!! The Aust v Ireland game on the 17th is listed at 9.45pm. This is a travesty!! Surely the siphoning laws oblige you to show the main games in real time!
September 8th 2011 @ 6:46pm
Geoff Rogers said | September 8th 2011 @ 6:46pm | Report comment
Channel Nine are not fit to hold the rights to the world cup . When they won the bidding they promised wide coverage but what is on offer is an insult . Living in WA it is not easy to watch rugby but I thought 2011 would be different . I used to have some sympathy with the terrestial services when they had justt one channel but now they each have three or four. They could easily schedule all mathches on Go or Gem but what do they do ? Well , they transmit repeats of repeats of repeats
September 8th 2011 @ 9:03pm
Foxhater said | September 8th 2011 @ 9:03pm | Report comment
This is a disgrace.
The rest of the world considers Australia to be a sports mad country.
Bet they would change their minds when they see the coverage.
Looks like I’ll have to find some streaming sites to watch it all live. Shouldn’t be too hard.
If Formula 1can be viewed in excellent quality over the web, I’m sure RWC will be available.
September 8th 2011 @ 11:24pm
D said | September 8th 2011 @ 11:24pm | Report comment
Channel 9 need to change their slogan from Channel 9 – The home of Rugby to Channel 9-were dictated to by Foxsports!! Wide World of Sports even stated over the last 2 weeks, that they would be playing the first game of the Rugby World Cup LIVE. Yet, with the release of the TV Schedule (which has taken over three weeks to publish) states that people should look at there own Local Guides. I thought they were going to do great things with rugby, but only to stuff everything up yet again. Look at Perth and Melbourne for example, we do not get the coverage until 1:40am!! Channel 9 do not even do AFL no more, and yet we are still made to suffer with watching repeats of CSI Miami until the game comes on. That’s not all, we have not even had the rugby league until 11:30pm each Friday night! Why is it that league gets on so late here in Perth and in Melbourne? But if you live in NSW or Queensland, you can get the NRL pretty much live.
Lastly, I agree with most of the comments – They should have given the rugby to SBS.
Thanks for reading.
September 8th 2011 @ 11:31pm
Johnno said | September 8th 2011 @ 11:31pm | Report comment
Change the anti siphoning laws, let pay tv run the show, down with free to air monopoly nonsense. This is how channel 9 treat the people of Australia in a RWC. Absoloute contempt. Down with free to air, lets embrace foxtel and pay tv with open arms. And also pay tv money stops greedy players form leaving home and playing rugby league and rugby union in Europe. Keeps our best talent here, and more money for grass roots rugby league and rugby union. Abolish these outdated anti siphoning laws. Absoloute contempt by free to air channel 9
September 9th 2011 @ 6:55am
David said | September 9th 2011 @ 6:55am | Report comment
Typical, we are supposed to get people interested in sport. If people see sport it might encourage them to go and give it a try.
Obvisouly the one eyed AFL money hungry cows actually own the TV statioins.
A world event and we have to wait till early morning the next day.
How pathetic, even fox are to slack and one eyed AFL stuff everyone else.
How pathetic this country has become
And I suppose if the Australian team doesn’t get in the final they will probably opt to delay broadcast that as well
Thankyou TV for not thinking about the Major World events. But, hey if something horrible happens it will be broad cast live
Now i know why i dont have fox, and will never get it if they dont consider a world sport comp is not live and free to air, they obviously forgot to tell us the free air is actually hot air
September 9th 2011 @ 12:14pm
Porky said | September 9th 2011 @ 12:14pm | Report comment
So lets see. Let’s assume Ch9 gets the next Olympics. That should mean they’ll delay the opening ceremony to accomodate some scheduled I Love Lucy re-runs and they’ll only be showing the swimming, gymnastics and some of the athletics/track & filed sports. Well done Ch9… you losers! Well done on disrespecting the RWC 2011 campaigns of Namibia, Russia, Georgia etc