[16], Base camps are to be used by the 16 national squads to stay and train before and during the World Cup tournament. ", "2021 Rugby League World Cup | 2021 RLWC", "2021 Rugby League World Cup: Venues to be named live on the BBC", "Rugby League World Cup 2021: BBC secures rights to broadcast all 31 games", "Rugby League World Cup 2021 search for esports partner", "Rugby League World Cup 2021 partners with Unicef UK", "CUBE Partnership announced as Official Retail and Merchandise Supplier of RLWC2021", "Record numbers for Rugby League Festival of World Cups 2021", "Warrington Chosen As 2021 Rugby League World Cup Venue", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2021_Rugby_League_World_Cup&oldid=980211963, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. RLWC2021 Chief Executive Jon Dutton, speaking at the … However, they were defeated by hosts Australia in a tightly-fought final which saw the Kangaroos, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Wales, Cook Islands, England, Papua New Guinea, Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, France, Cook Islands.
In 1975, the competition underwent a radical overhaul. The top 2 teams from each pool advanced to the quarter-finals. Due to the Super League war, players aligned with the rebel competition were not selected by the ARL to represent the Kangaroos. Previous RLWC tournaments have also hosted a Festival of World Cups, which have historically included a University World Cup, Police World Cup, and a Defence Forces World Cup. At the end of that period, Australia met New Zealand at Eden Park. News. [10] The fifth nation to compete in these two tournaments was Papua New Guinea, where rugby league is the national, and most popular, sport. While 18 of these represented nations, 1 did not; in 2000, the Aotearoa Māori team was granted entry to the competition.
Going into 2021, it is still unclear whether Bennett will lead England into the tournament, having overseen a winless Great Britain Lions tour of New Zealand, which saw the side lose all four of their matches, including both Tests against the Kiwis. Headingley Stadium in Leeds has hosted the tournament the most times, having had games in 7 world cups with Central Park, Wigan and Lang Park, Brisbane having hosted 6 tournaments. Eight teams have officially hosted and co-hosted the World Cup. Adam Hills signs as RLWC2021 Ambassador 05 Oct 2020 Latest . Coral Challenge Cup programme special edition: be part of it.
This crowd remained a Rugby League World Cup record (and a record for any rugby league international match) until beaten by the 74,468 crowd which attended the 2013 World Cup Final at Old Trafford. [6] Eight to ten cities, featuring venues from either the NFL or MLS, were planned for the event, offering Rugby League International Federation the opportunity to stage the tournament outside of Europe and Australasia for the first time. This tournament included a New Zealand Maori representative team, the only time this team has taken part. In the role of RLWC2021 official mental fitness ambassador the former Bradford Bulls player will find himself playing a key role in delivering at another World Cup, this time off the pitch. Read about our approach to external linking. ", Lockyer's winning farewell to Suncorp Stadium, Full Match Replay: NRLW Warriors v Roosters - Round 2, 2020, 'Lost opportunity': Arthur makes no excuse for wilted Eels, You have skipped the navigation, tab for page content. There was not a final held to decide the champions of the 1975 tournament and so Australia won by virtue of topping the group standings. England have also finished runners-up three times, while the Great Britain team were runners-up four times. The 2000 World Cup expanded the field further, with sixteen teams entering. We're giving free tickets to key workers so they can attend RLWC2021, Be the first to hear about our volunteer programme. New teams competing included Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and South Africa. Australia won the tournament by beating New Zealand 40-12 in the final at Old Trafford, Manchester.
All quarter-finalists automatically qualified for the 2025 Rugby League World Cup. If the teams are level after 80 minutes extra time will be played and if the two teams are still level after extra time, a golden point will be played. But Prince Harry was in jovial mood as he attended Buckingham Palace to conduct the 2021 Rugby League World Cup draw. The 1972 World Cup final between Great Britain and Australia ended 10-all, and the title was awarded to Great Britain by virtue of their superior record in the qualifiers. Qualifying for the 2021 World Cup will feature 20 teams, the most to date with 8 teams having automatically qualified.
The current format has been in use since 2013 featuring 14 teams split into two groups of four and two groups of three. Meanwhile, 1995 and 2000 semi-finalists Wales have been drawn alongside Tonga, Papua New Guinea and the Cook Islands. Rugby League World Cup 2021; Dates: 23 October to 27 November 2021 Coverage: All 31 matches of the men's World Cup will be broadcast live by the BBC, with at least 16 games on BBC One or BBC Two. [12], The 2021 tournament will be held in England with organisers expressing a desire to see a total of one million fans attend games.
A final match was played between the top two teams in 1954. With the World Cup more than 14 months away, RLWC2021 CEO Jon Dutton said there was confidence in England the tournament would go ahead as planned and crowds were expected to soon be allowed to attend sporting events. Hull and Auckland are the cities with the next highest number with 3 each. Analysis and opinion from the BBC's rugby league correspondent. [3] So far three nations have won the competition (Australia eleven times, Great Britain three times and New Zealand once). Adam, who plays Physical Disability Rugby League (PDRL) for Warrington Wolves, joins the squad of ambassadors that include Luke Gale, Kevin Sinfield, James Simpson and Jodie Cunningham. The VAT Registration Number of The Rugby Football League Limited is 168 8110 49. Following the Super League war, the subsequent re-structuring of rugby league's international governing bodies meant that the proposed 1998 World Cup was postponed.[11].
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This article is about the men's world cup. [37], This article is about the men's tournament. ", "Record rugby league crowd for World Cup final", "Rugby League World Cup: North America set to host 2025 tournament", "US World Cup hosting plans torpedoed by money trouble", "Papua New Guinea to co-host Rugby League World Cup in 2017", "Rugby League - Contributing to New Zealand's Future", "20 TEAMS TO VIE FOR WORLD CUP GLORY IN 2013", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rugby_League_World_Cup&oldid=982790703, Recurring sporting events established in 1954, Articles needing additional references from November 2018, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Top two advance from Group A, Group leader advances from Group B and C, Top three advance from Group A, Group leader advances from Group B and C, Top three advance from Group A and B, Group leader advance from Group C and D, This page was last edited on 10 October 2020, at 10:52. [citation needed]. 13 of these teams have never qualified for the world cup with the possibility of 7 of these debutants to reach the tournament proper. [7] Canada Rugby League later announced they wanted to be a part of the United States bid stating that the cities of Vancouver and Toronto could also potentially host matches. England will play Samoa in the opening match of the tournament at St James' Park, Newcastle on 23 October. [1], On 27 October 2016, it was confirmed that England won the hosting rights for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup. Although games were played in Papua New Guinea during the 1985–88 and 1989-92 World Cups, they are due to officially become the eighth nation to host games in 2017 alongside Australia and New Zealand.
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