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 one of four major tournaments part of the 2025 Rugby League World Cup. The competition is scheduled to be held in October and November 2025 or 2026, and will run in parallel with the women's, wheelchair, and under-19s tournaments.

The tournament was originally planned to be held in the United States and Canada, who in 2018 withdrew, and was re-awarded to France in 2022. However, on 15 May 2023, the French organising committee announced that they were withdrawing from hosting the tournament due to lack of support from the newly elected French Government.

Host selection

The International Rugby League (IRL) originally decided in 2016 to have the tournaments hosted in the United States and Canada. In December 2019 however, the IRL withdrew the hosting rights due to the promoters, Moore Sports International, being unable to guarantee the staging of the tournaments.

After re-opening the bidding to host the tournaments, the IRL awarded the hosting rights to France.. On 15 May 2023, the France 2025 organising committee was forced to withdraw from hosting the tournament.

Qualification

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References

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