Description: The Rugby World Cup 2023 will take place in France from 8 September to 28 October 2023 with matches played at 9 venues in 10 host cities. The tournament will be the 10th Men's Rugby World Cup and the second to be hosted by the France after a memorable event in 2007, which crowned the current defending champions, South Africa.The Rugby World Cup 2023 will take place in a year when rugby will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the time when William Webb Ellis, a student at the Rugby School, was considered the inventor of the game of rugby, showing "a disregard for the rules" by catching the ball and running with it in 1823.