2025 Rugby League World Cup

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2025 (2025) Rugby League World Cup  ()
Number of teams
  • 16 (men)
  • 16 (women)
  • 16 (wheelchair)
  • 16 (youth)
Host country France
Matches played93 (planned)
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The 2025 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC2025) was a planned collection of world cups in the sport of rugby league which was replaced by the 2026 Rugby League World Cup.

Like 2021, the 2025 World Cup was to have run a men's, women's and wheelchair world cups simultaneously, in addition to a youth World Cup.[1][2]

Originally due to be staged in the USA and Canada, the offer was withdrawn due to financial concerns, hosting was subsequently awarded to France. In May 2023 the French organisers pulled out of hosting the games. On 3 August 2023 the tournaments were cancelled by the sport's governing body with the announcement that a new reduced-size tournament would take place in the southern hemisphere in 2026.[3][4][5][6]

  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.
  2. ^ "Everything you need to know about the 2025 World Cup in France". 11 January 2022.
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