2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup

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2021 (2021) Women's Rugby League World Cup  ()
Number of teams8
Host country England
Matches played15
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The 2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup will be the sixth staging of the Women's Rugby League World Cup, to be held in England in November 2022. Originally planned for 2021, it was delayed a year along with the Men's and Wheelchair tournaments due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The tournament will feature eight teams, an increase of two from the previous tournament.

For the first time the tournament will have parity with the Men's and Wheelchair tournaments with all participants being paid the same while all 61 matches across three tournaments will be broadcast live.[1][2]

Teams[]

The competing teams were selected based on a number of criteria including growth and current infrastructure and were announced on 18 July 2019.[3]

Region Team Previous
appearances 		Previous best result World
ranking
Americas  Brazil 0 Debut 11
 Canada 1 Semi-finals (2017) 4
Asia-Pacific  Australia 5 Champions (2013, 2017) 1
 Cook Islands 2 Pool stage (2003, 2017) 5
 New Zealand 5 Champions (2000, 2003, 2008) 2
 Papua New Guinea 1 Pool stage (2017) 6
Europe  England[a] 3 Semi-finals (2008, 2017), 3rd of 4 (2013) 3
 France 2 Pool stage (2008, 2013) 7
  1. ^ Competed as part of  Great Britain in 2 previous tournaments, finishing as runners-up in 2000.

Venues[]

The list of venues for both the women's and the men's tournaments were announced in January 2019. The full schedule of games to be played at each venue will not be announced until after the draw for the competition in November 2019 but venues that were announced as definitely hosting one or more games of the tournament are:[4]

Manchester Liverpool
Old Trafford[a] Anfield[b]
Capacity: 74,994 Capacity: 54,074
Inside Old Trafford Football Stadium - geograph.org.uk - 1777320.jpg Panorama of Anfield with new main stand (29676137824).jpg
Leeds York
Headingley Stadium York Community Stadium
Capacity: 21,062 Capacity: 8,500
Leeds Rhinos v Warrington Wolves (4th May 2018) 025.jpg LNER Community Stadium, Monks Cross, York (29th August 2020) 006.jpg
Hull
MKM Stadium
Capacity: 25,586
KC Stadium.JPG

Team base camps[]

Base camps were used by the eight national squads to stay and train before and during the World Cup tournament. On 10 June 2020, these locations were released. The teams will be based in Leeds and York[5]

  • Leeds: Brazil, Canada, England and Papua New Guinea
  • York: Australia, Cook Islands, France and New Zealand

Draw[]

The teams were drawn into two groups of four. The two seeded teams were England (Group A) as hosts and Australia as holders (Group B). The draw was made at Buckingham Palace on 16 January 2020. Teams from pool 1 were drawn by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, pool 2 was drawn by Katherine Grainger and pool 3 by Jason Robinson.[6]

Pool Group A Group B
Seeded England England Australia Australia
Pool 1 Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea New Zealand New Zealand
Pool 2 Canada Canada France France
Pool 3 Brazil Brazil Cook Islands Cook Islands

Fixtures[]

Ahead of the fixture list being announced, the organisers stated that there will be at least four days between a team's games in the interests of player welfare.[7]

The fixtures were announced on 21 July 2020.[8] All the games in the tournament will be played as double headers with other games from either the women's or men's tournaments.[9]

Group A[]

Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 England England 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stages
2 Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Canada Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Brazil Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 9 November 2021. Source:[citation needed]

Round 1[]

9 November 2021
14:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
England  v  Brazil
9 November 2021
17:00 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Papua New Guinea  v  Canada

Round 2[]

13 November 2021
12:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
England  v  Canada
13 November 2021
17:00 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Papua New Guinea  v  Brazil
KCOM Stadium, Hull

Round 3[]

17 November 2021
17:00 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Canada  v  Brazil
17 November 2021
19:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
England  v  Papua New Guinea

Group B[]

Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 Australia Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stages
2 New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 France France 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Cook Islands Cook Islands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 10 November 2021. Source:[citation needed]

All six of the Group B fixtures will be played at the York Community Stadium in York.

Round 1[]

10 November 2021
17:00 GMT (UTC±00:00)
New Zealand  v  France
10 November 2021
19:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Australia  v  Cook Islands

Round 2[]

14 November 2021
17:00 GMT (UTC±00:00)
New Zealand  v  Cook Islands
14 November 2021
19:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Australia  v  France

Round 3[]

18 November 2021
17:00 GMT (UTC±00:00)
France  v  Cook Islands
18 November 2021
19:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Australia  v  New Zealand

Knock out stages[]

Semi-finals[]

The semi-finals will be played as a double header at the York Community Stadium, York on 22 November 2021.

22 November 2021
17:00 GMT (UTC±00:00)
winner of Group B v runner up in Group A
22 November 2021
19:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
winner of Group A v runner up in Group B

Final[]

The final will be played at Old Trafford, Manchester on 27 November 2021 as a double header with the final of the men's tournament.

27 November 2021
14:15 GMT (UTC±00:00)
winner of SF1 v winner of SF2

See also[]

Legacy of the 2021 Rugby League World Cup

Notes[]

  1. ^ Venue of the final in double header with the Men's final
  2. ^ Venue of opening ceremony and match

References[]

  1. ^ Darbyshire, Drew (21 October 2019). "Women and wheelchair players to receive equal pay to men at 2021 World Cup". Love Rugby League. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  2. ^ Ed, Dixon (2 July 2020). "2021 Rugby League World Cup and IRL team up on broadcast production - SportsPro Media". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Nations confirmed for Women's Rugby League World Cup 2021". RLIF. 18 July 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Full list of host venues revealed". Stadia Magazine. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  5. ^ "Kangaroos to be united in Manchester: World Cup team bases announced". National Rugby League. 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Rugby League World Cup 2021 draw: England drawn with Samoa, France and Greece". BBC Sport. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  7. ^ "World Cup format revised to give women longer break between fixtures". RL News. 28 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  8. ^ "England start against Samoa at World Cup". BBC Sport. 21 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Rugby League World Cup 2021 | Schedule". www.rlwc2021.com. 21 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.

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