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The remaining spots are achieved through regional qualification tournaments, split between the four International Rugby League confederation Asia-Pacific, Americas, Europe, and Middle East-Africa. Prior to this qualification tournament occurred in more random groups and major rugby league nations were still invited without need for qualification.
The allocation of teams for the 2026 World Cup was announced on 7 August 2023. The 2026 edition of the Rugby League World Cup will only feature ten men's teams, down from 16 in 2021. The eight quarter-finalists from the previous World Cup achieved automatic qualification, leaving two spots remaining for the qualification process. [1] [2]
The Rugby League World Cup is an international rugby league tournament contested by the top national men's representative teams. The tournament is administered by the International Rugby League and was first held in France in 1954 , which was the first World Cup held for any form of rugby football .
The qualification process for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France began during the pool stages of the 2019 tournament in Japan, at which the top three teams from each of the four pools qualified automatically for the 2023 event. A further eight teams qualified through regional, cross-regional play-offs and the repechage process.
The 2026 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC2026) is a collection of world cups in the sport of rugby league and is a replacement tournament for the 2025 Rugby League World Cup. Like 2021, the 2026 World Cup will see the men's, women's, and wheelchair world cups simultaneously. However unlike 2021, the men's tournament will feature ten teams only, and ...
IRL Men's World Rankings; Official rankings as of 21 December 2022: Rank Change Team Pts % 1 3 Australia 100.00 2 1 New Zealand 93.00 3 4 Samoa 87.00 4 1 England 73.00 5 3 Tonga
The Americas Rugby League Championship was in created in 2016 follow the success of the Americas region of the 2015 Americas qualification tournament for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. [1] Initially held annually, the tournament switched to every two years following the 2018 event, [ 2 ] however the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID ...
On 25 May 2023, the European Rugby League (ERL) announced that the tournament would be postponed due to France withdrawing as hosts of the 2025 Rugby League World Cup, this was as the competition acted as a World Cup qualification tournament for Europe. [15] [16] The tournament was scheduled October and November 2023. [4]