The draw for the Women's Rugby World Cup 2017 will take place on Wednesday morning at Belfast City Hall.
The tournament, which will take place in Ireland, will feature twelve teams who will be drawn into three pools of four teams.
The top seven teams from the last World Cup have qualified automatically - Ireland, France, New Zealand, England, Canada, Australia and the USA.
Those seven teams have since been joined by Italy and Wales, who were the top two ranked sides outside of England, France and Ireland across the 2015 and 2016 Women's Six Nations.
The remaining three qualifiers will be determined by the end of 2016 and they are as follows: Fiji, Japan and Hong Kong will compete in a three match round-robin tournament to be played Dec 9, 13 and 17 in Hong Kong. The top two teams will qualify for WRWC 2017.
The last placed Six Nations team from the combined 2015 and 2016 rankings (Scotland) will play two matches, home and away, against the winner of the Rugby Europe competition (Spain) on the 18th November in Scotstoun, Glasgow and the 26th November in Madrid, with the overall winner qualifying for WRWC 2017.
