Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Gasar wasan farko, wanda Ostiraliya da New Zealand suka shirya, an gudanar da shi a watan Mayu da Yuni 1987, tare da kasashe goma sha shida da ke halarta. Gasar cin Kofin Duniya ta farko a 1987, ba ta ƙunshi wani tsari na cancanta ba; maimakon haka, wurare 16 an cika su ta atomatik ta ƙasashe mambobi bakwai na Hukumar Kwallon Rugby ta Duniya (IRFB, yanzu Rugby ta Duniya), sauran kuma ta hanyar gayyata. New Zealand ta zama zakara ta farko, inda ta doke Faransa 29 zuwa 9 a wasan karshe. Kasar Ingila ce ta karbi bakuncin gasar ta 1991, tare da wasannin da aka buga a duk fadin Burtaniya, Ireland da Faransa. An gabatar da wasannin neman cancanta don gasar ta biyu
, inda takwas daga cikin wurare goma sha shida aka yi hamayya a gasar kasashe ashirin da hudu. Wannan gasa ta ga gabatarwar gasar neman shiga; an ba da wurare takwas ga masu tseren karshe daga 1987, kuma sauran takwas da aka yanke shawarar ta gasar neman shiga gasar kasashe talatin da biyar. Ostiraliya ta lashe gasar ta biyu, inda ta doke Ingila 12 zuwa 6 a wasan karshe.