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The Rugby League World Cup qualification is the process a national team goes through to qualify for the Rugby League World Cup Finals. Qualifying rounds were first introduced for the 2000 World Cup to reflect the recent expansion of the tournament.
The MEA Championships was founded in 2015 as the 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualification (Middle East-Africa play-off) between Lebanon and South Africa. The tournament was reborn in 2019 under the name "Middle East and Africa Championship", with the inaugural reformatted version being hosted in Lagos.
Round 2 will commence in the July 2025, with a round-robin tournament determining the winner and qualifying for the Rugby World Cup as Africa 1. The runner-up (Africa 2) will progress to an Africa / Asia play-off match against Asia 2 to decide who plays in the Final Qualification Tournament.
South Africa would become the first African nation to compete in the Rugby League World Cup. South Africa was grouped with Australia, England, and Fiji in the 1995 World Cup. South Africa were dominated in all their matches, only managing to score 12 points in the entire tournament.
The 2017 Rugby League World Cup Middle East-Africa qualification play-off was a two-match rugby league series, with the winner qualifying for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. The matches were between South Africa and Lebanon and were played at Brakpan Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa on 25 and 31 October 2015.
2026 Women's World Cup: European qualifying France, Wales: 19 September: 2026 Women's World Cup: Middle East-Africa qualifying Nigeria: 19 October: 2026 Women's World Cup: Asia-Pacific qualifying (2024 Women's Pacific Bowl) [1] Samoa: 20 October: 2024 Women's Pacific Cup [1] Australia: 6 November: 2026 Women's World Cup: Americas qualifying Canada
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 .