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The World Rugby U20 Trophy 2024 will take place in Scotland from 2-17 July, 2024. Played over four match days at the Hive Stadium in Edinburgh, it will be contested by eight teams fighting for promotion to the World Rugby U20 Championship 2025.
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Record-breaking start for Japan in U20 Trophy, We wrap up all the action from the opening round of the World Rugby U20 Trophy 2024 at the Hive Stadium in Edinburgh, as Japan put 100 points past Hong Kong China in the first match of the day.
Japan began their quest to win a fourth World Rugby U20 Trophy title with the biggest score in the history of the competition as they beat Hong Kong China 105-20.
No less than 20 tries were scored in the match to get the 14th edition of the competition off to an entertaining start.
We stand at the start of another huge week of international age-grade rugby, and you can watch it all live and for free on RugbyPass..
Having watched the World Rugby U20 Championship 2024 get underway in style in Cape Town last weekend, now is the time for the players in the second tier to shine.
The World Rugby U20 Trophy 2024 kicks off at Edinburgh’s Hive Stadium on Tuesday, with hosts Scotland one of eight teams targeting promotion to the U20 Championship over the next fortnight.
On Thursday, meanwhile, the U20 Championship continues in Cape Town and Stellenbosch as the competing nations jostle for a place in the semi-finals.
The second round of the U20 Trophy pool stage then follows on Sunday.
U20 Trophy set for kick-off
Eight teams have gathered on the U20 Trophy start line in Edinburgh with their eyes set firmly on promotion to next year’s U20 Championship.
Hive Stadium will host 16 matches over the next two weeks as those eight nations are whittled down to one winner, and you can watch all the action with RugbyPass..
Scotland will hope home comforts can help them take the step back to the top tier of men’s age-grade international rugby at the second time of asking.
Last year’s tournament in Nairobi was their first campaign at this level, having been relegated from the U20 Championship in 2019. Uruguay put paid to their hopes of an instant return, running out 37-26 victors in the teams’ final pool-stage match 12 months ago.
Scotland overcame Samoa 83-10 to win the third-place play-off, and they will begin their quest for promotion against the same opposition in Pool A on Tuesday (kick-off 14:30 BST).
Kenneth Murray’s team, who finished bottom of the 2024 U20 Six Nations standings, then face Hong Kong China next Sunday (kick-off 14:30 BST) and finish their pool-stage campaign against Japan five days later (kick-off 19:45 BST).
Japan lost all five matches during the 2023 U20 Championship, losing their place at the top table with a 45-27 defeat to Italy.
In Pool B, Scotland’s 2023 conquerors Uruguay get their campaign underway against Kenya in the second match of day one (kick-off 14:30 BST).
Los Teritos had their promotion hopes extinguished by a late Diego Gonzalez Blanco try 12 months ago as Spain ran out 39-32 winners in the final.
Second-place was Uruguay’s best finish since they won the inaugural tournament in Chile in 2008 and they will hope this is the year they end their long wait for a return to the U20 Championship.
Uruguay face USA on Sunday (kick-off 11:45 BST) before completing their pool-stage commitments with a match against tournament debutants the Netherlands a week on Friday (kick-off 17:15 BST).
The Dutch earned their place in Edinburgh by winning the 2023 Rugby Europe U20 Championship and will kick-off their maiden campaign against USA on day one (kick-off 19:45 BST).
The Americans won the U20 Trophy on home soil in 2012 but have only appeared in three of the past seven tournaments and finished a disappointing seventh 12 months ago.
You can find out how they get on in Edinburgh with RugbyPass. The U20 Trophy is available to stream live and for free around the world, except in the UK.
