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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host |  Japan (Finals) |
| Dates | 23 August – 21 September 2024 (29 days) |
| Teams | |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Fiji (7th title) |
| Runner-up | Japan |
| Third place |  Samoa |
| Fourth place |  United States |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 11 |
| Tries scored | 80 (7.27 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Lee Seung-sin (60) |
| Most tries |
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The 2024 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup[a] was the seventeenth Pacific Nations Cup (PNC) tournament, and the first with a new format design.[2][3] Similar to the 2019 tournament, the same teams played each other,[2][3] with the same round-robin structure. However, unlike 2019, the 2024 edition had a finals series following the pool stage (hosted in Japan), to decide the champion.[2][4][5]
While Samoa, Fiji, Tonga and Japan did play each other in the lead-up to the 2023 Rugby World Cup, no official PNC tournament took place in 2023. As such, Samoa are the defending champions, having gone undefeated at the 2022 iteration of the tournament.
Fiji won the 2024 title, beating Japan in the Grand Final, 41–17.[6]
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- ^ a b "World Rugby launches Pacific Nations Cup, annual competition with the USA Men's Eagles included as one of six competing nations". usa.rugby. USA Rugby. 24 October 2023. Archived from the original on 6 November 2023.
- ^ "世界のラグビーがさらに活発化。2027年W杯から24か国出場、2026年からトップ12か国新大会、2024年からPNC" [More active rugby around the world: 24 countries from the 2027 World Cup, new top 12 countries from 2026, PNC from 2024.]. Rugby Republic jp (in Japanese). Baseball Magazine, Inc. jp. 25 October 2023. Archived from the original on 14 December 2023.
- ^ "ラグビー 世界トップ12チーム参加 新たな国際大会創設を発表" [Rugby Announces the creation of a new international competition involving the world's top 12 rugby teams.]. NHK (in Japanese). 25 October 2023. Archived from the original on 27 October 2023.
- ^ "Fiji beat Japan to lift Pacific Nations Cup". France 24. 21 September 2024. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
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