2025 Women's Rugby League World Cup

The 2025 Women's Rugby League World Cup will be the seventh staging of the Women's Rugby League World Cup, to be held in France during October and November 2025.[1] The competition will run in parallel with the men's, wheelchair and under-19s tournaments.[2]

This article is about the women's tournament. For the men's tournament, see 2025 Rugby League World Cup.
2025 (2025) Women's Rugby League World Cup  ()
Number of teams16
Host country France
Tournaments
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The tournament will be competed for by 16 teams, double the number competing in the 2021 tournament.[3]

Host selection

The International Rugby League (IRL) originally decided in 2016 to have the tournaments hosted in North America. In 2018 the IRL withdrew the award due to the promoters, Moore Sports International, being unable to guarantee the staging of the tournaments.[4] Re-opening the bidding to host the games, the IRL awarded hosting the tournaments to France.[5]

Qualification

The 2025 tournament will be the first time the women's world cup has held a qualifying competition. Regional allocations have been made; six European countries will be represented with another six from the Asia-Pacific countries; three places will be given to countries in North and South America and the final place will go to a country from the Middle East-Africa region.[6] As the eight teams competing in the 2021 tournament all pre-qualify for the 2025 competition and France are automatically included as the host nation, three of the European, two of the Americas places and four of the Asia-Pacific places are already known.[6]

References
  1. "2025 Rugby League World Cup: France promises low carbon event after being named host". SportsPro. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  2. "France 2025: 13 questions answered about the Rugby League World Cup". the Guardian. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  3. Gordon, James (24 March 2022). "France 2025: World Cup qualifying places confirmed". LoveRugbyLeague. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  4. Adrian Proszenko (4 December 2018). "US World Cup hosting plans torpedoed by money trouble". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. "France to host 2025 Rugby League World Cup 71 years after hosting sport's first showpiece in 1954". Sky Sports. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  6. Gordon, James (24 March 2022). "France 2025: World Cup qualifying places confirmed". LoveRugbyLeague. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
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