Rugby League World Cup finals

The Rugby League World Cup is an international men's rugby league competition contested every several years between national teams of the members of Rugby League International Federation, the sport's governing body. Australia has won the most Rugby League World Cup championships, with its eleventh coming in the 2017 tournament in Oceania, in which it defeated England.

Rugby League World Cup Final
Teams2
First meeting1954
Latest meeting2017
Next meeting2021
Statistics
Meetings total12
Most wins Australia (11 titles)

Results

Year Champions Score Runners-up Referee Venue Location Attendance Date
1954 Great Britain 16 – 12 France C. Appleton Parc des Princes Paris, France 30,368 13 November 1954
1957 Australia No final Great Britain
1960 Great Britain (2) No final Australia
1968 Australia (2) 20 – 2 France J. Percival Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney, Australia 54,290 10 June 1968
1970 Australia (3) 12 – 7 Great Britain F. Lindop Headingley Leeds, England 18,776 10 November 1970
1972 Great Britain (3) 10 – 10 Australia G. Jameau Stade de Gerland Lyon, France 4,231 11 November 1972
1975 Australia (4) No final England
1977 Australia (5) 13 – 12 Great Britain B. Thompson Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney, Australia 24,457 25 June 1977
1988 Australia (6) 25 – 12 New Zealand G. Ainui Eden Park Auckland, New Zealand 47,363 9 October 1988
1992 Australia (7) 10 – 6 Great Britain D. Hale Wembley Stadium London, England 73,631 24 October 1992
1995 Australia (8) 16 – 8 England S. Cummings Wembley Stadium London, England 66,540 28 October 1995
2000 Australia (9) 40 – 12 New Zealand S. Cummings Old Trafford Manchester, England 44,329 25 November 2000
2008 New Zealand 34 – 20 Australia A. Klein Lang Park Brisbane, Australia 50,559 23 November 2008
2013 Australia (10) 34 – 2 New Zealand R. Silverwood Old Trafford Manchester, England 74,468 30 November 2013
2017 Australia (11) 6 – 0 England G. Sutton Lang Park Brisbane, Australia 40,033 2 December 2017
2021 Old Trafford Manchester, England 27 November 2021

Team Performance

Team Winners Runners-up Years won Years runner-up
 Australia 11 3 1957, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2013,

2017

1960, 1972, 2008
 Great Britain 3 4 1954, 1960, 1972 1957, 1970, 1977, 1992
 New Zealand 1 3 2008 1988, 2000, 2013
 England 0 3 1975, 1995, 2017
 France 0 2 1954, 1968

See also

References

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