2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup

The 2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup will be the sixth staging of the Women's Rugby League World Cup, to be held in England between 13 November and 27 November 2021. The tournament will feature eight teams, an increase of two from the previous tournament.

This article is about the women's tournament. For the men's tournament, see 2021 Rugby League World Cup.
2021 (2021) Women's Rugby League World Cup  ()
Number of teams8
Host country England
Matches played15
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Teams

The competing teams were selected based on a number of criteria including growth and current infrastructure and were announced on 18 July 2019.[1]

Region Team Previous
appearances		 Previous best result World
ranking
Americas  Brazil 0 Debut 11
 Canada 1 Semi-finals (2017) 4
Asia-Pacific  Australia 5 Champions (2013, 2017) 1
 Cook Islands 2 Pool stage (2005, 2017) 5
 New Zealand 5 Champions (2000, 2005, 2008) 2
 Papua New Guinea 1 Pool stage (2017) 6
Europe  England[lower-alpha 1] 3 Semi-finals (2008, 2013, 2017) 3
 France 2 Semi-finals (2013) 7
  1. Competed as part of  Great Britain in 2 previous tournaments, finishing as runners-up in 2000.

Venues

The list of venues for both the women's and the men's tournaments were announced in January 2019. The full schedule of games to be played at each venue will not be announced until after the draw for the competition in November 2019 but venues that were announced as definitely hosting one or more games of the tournament are:[2]

Region Location Stadium Image Capacity Matches to be hosted
North-west Liverpool Anfield 54,074 England women's opening group game. Also the venue for the opening ceremony of the women's tournament.
Manchester Old Trafford 74,994 The final, to be played as a double-header with the men's final.
Yorkshire Leeds Emerald Headingley Stadium 21,062 Two matches.
York York Community Stadium 8,005 One group game and both semi-finals.

Team base camps

Base camps were used by the eight national squads to stay and train before and during the World Cup tournament. On 10 June 2020, these locations were released. The teams will be based in Leeds and York[3]

  • Leeds: Brazil, Canada, England and Papua New Guinea
  • York: Australia, Cook Islands, France and New Zealand

Draw

The teams were drawn into two groups of four. The two seeded teams were England (Group A) as hosts and Australia as holders (Group B). The draw was made at Buckingham Palace on 16 January 2020. Teams from pool 1 were drawn by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, pool 2 was drawn by Katherine Grainger and pool 3 by Jason Robinson.[4]

Pool Group A Group B
Seeded England Australia
Pool 1 Papua New Guinea New Zealand
Pool 2 Canada France
Pool 3 Brazil Cook Islands

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 England 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stages
2 Papua New Guinea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on November 2021. Source:

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stages
2 New Zealand 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 France 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Cook Islands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on November 2021. Source:

Schedule

While the full schedule is still to be announced, the organisers have said that there will be at least four days between a team's games in the interests of player welfare.[5]

References
  1. "Nations confirmed for Women's Rugby League World Cup 2021". RLIF. 18 July 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  2. "Full list of host venues revealed". Stadia Magazine. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  3. "Kangaroos to be united in Manchester: World Cup team bases announced". National Rugby League. 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  4. "Rugby League World Cup 2021 draw: England drawn with Samoa, France and Greece". BBC Sport. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  5. "World Cup format revised to give women longer break between fixtures". RL News. 28 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
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