2025 Rugby League World Cup

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2025 (2025) World Cup  ()
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Number of teams16
Host country France
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The 2025 Rugby League World Cup will be the seventeenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup and will be held in France in October and November 2025, two years after it hosted the 2023 Rugby World Cup. The tournament will include the men's, women's, wheelchair and youth competitions. There will be 16 teams playing in the men's, women's, youth (Under-19) and wheelchair competitions. [1]

Host selection[]

Main article: Rugby League World Cup hosts

After the U.S. lost the 2021 Rugby League World Cup bid to England, the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) recommended that the United States and Canada should host the 2025 event after an impressive bid by Moore Sports International.[2] The RLIF Congress reviewed that recommendation at a meeting in November 2016.[3] On 20 November, it was announced that the North America bid had won the rights to host the 2025 World Cup. This would have been the first time the tournament was held outside of Europe and Oceania.[4]

On December 4, 2018, plans for the World Cup to be held in North America were scrapped due to financial concerns and that the location of the 2025 Rugby League World Cup would be determined by a new bidding process in 2019.[5]

In March 2021, it was reported that France is the preferred destination for the 2025 Rugby League World Cup.[6] France officially lodged a bid later that year, in July.[7]

In January 2022, France won the bid to host the world cup.[8] The official announcement announcing France as the host nation was made on 11 January 2022 by French prime minister, Jean Castex. It is intended that the tournament will be played at 40 cities across France during October and November 2025.[9]

Qualification[]

There will be 16 teams in the mens tournament with the exact number of teams from each region to be decided. The four semi finalists from the 2021 tournament are expected to automatically qualify. The teams that have qualified so far are:

Cities and venues[]

It was confirmed that the majority of games will be played in medium-sized cities, with finals matches to be played in cities such as Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse. [10]

References[]

  1. ^ "'The Rooster is going to sing again': France aiming high for 2025 World Cup". National Rugby League. 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  2. ^ "US-Canada set to host Rugby League World Cup in 2025". nzherald.co.nz. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  3. ^ "England to host RLWC2021 – North America recommended for RLWC2025". rlif.com. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Rugby League World Cup moves to North America in 2025". stuff sport. 20 November 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  5. ^ Adrian Proszenko (4 December 2018). "US World Cup hosting plans torpedoed by money trouble". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  6. ^ Dave Woods (30 March 2021). "International Rugby League Board planning 2025 World Cup in France". BBC. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  7. ^ "France officially to bid to host 2025 Rugby League World Cup | Rugby League Planet". Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  8. ^ "France to host 2025 World Cup". National Rugby League. 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  9. ^ "France to host 2025 Rugby League World Cup 71 years after hosting sport's first showpiece in 1954". Sky Sports. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  10. ^ "'The Rooster is going to sing again': France aiming high for 2025 World Cup". National Rugby League. 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
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