However, if a match is cancelled during the pool stages of the tournament, it is awarded as a 0-0 draw. Organisers can change the venue of a fixture or the timing if bad weather looks set to affect the match. “While it is too early to determine the exact trajectory and impact, if any, of the typhoon at this early stage … we have a robust contingency program in place in the event adverse weather looks likely to impact fixtures,” they said in a statement. Organisers had warned Monday that Hagibis “could bring high winds and heavy rain to southern Japan on 12 and 13 October”. However, with the storm shifting east, there is now a threat for two other huge games in Yokohama, just south of Tokyo.Įngland play France in a Pool C decider in Yokohama on Saturday and Japan play Scotland on Sunday, in a match that will determine whether the hosts qualify for their first quarter-final.

If the current forecast holds, the danger would appear to be lower for crunch games in the southwest (Ireland-Samoa on Saturday in Fukuoka and Wales-Uruguay on Sunday in Kumamoto).

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