2025 Festival of World Cups

The 2025 Rugby League World Cup will be the seventeenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup and will be held in October and November 2025 or 2026.

Additional competitions under the Festival of World Cups banner are planned to be held in France around men's centrepiece competition. Beyond the Rugby League World Cup, there will be several other separate World Cups under the tournament umbrella, including the women's, wheelchair and youth competitions. There will be 16 teams playing in the women's, youth (Under-19 men) and wheelchair umbrella competitions.[1]

Qualified Teams

Based on the 2021 World Cup, the following teams have already qualified for the 2025 edition. Qualifying rounds will take place to determine the additional teams to complete the format.

Mens Tournament:

  •  Australia
  •  England
  •  Fiji
  •  Lebanon
  •  New Zealand
  •  Papua New Guinea
  •  Samoa
  •  Tonga

(8/16)

Womens Tournament:

  •  Australia
  •  Brazil
  •  Canada
  • Cook Islands Cook Islands
  •  England
  •  France
  •  New Zealand
  •  Papua New Guinea

(8/16)

References

  1. ^ "'The Rooster is going to sing again': France aiming high for 2025 World Cup". National Rugby League. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2022.

External links

  • FESTIVAL OF WORLD CUPS ARCHIVES - ASIA PACIFIC RUGBY LEAGUE
  • French public warmly back hosting 2025 Rugby League World Cup, according to poll