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.

Teams

The competing teams were selected based on a number of criteria including growth and current infrastructure and were announced on 18 July 2019.
RegionTeamPrevious
appearances		Previous best resultWorld
ranking
Americas0Debut11
Americas1Semi-finals 4
Asia-Pacific5Champions 1
Asia-Pacific2Pool stage 5
Asia-Pacific5Champions 2
Asia-Pacific1Pool stage 6
Europe3Semi-finals 3
Europe2Semi-finals 7

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:

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
The teams were drawn into two groups of four. The two seeded teams were as hosts and as holders. 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.
PoolGroup AGroup B
Seeded
Pool 1
Pool 2
Pool 3 Brazil

Fixtures

Ahead of the fixture list being announced, the organisers stated that there will be at least four days between a team's games in the interests of player welfare.
The fixtures were announced on 21 July 2020. All the games in the tournament will be played as double headers with other games from either the women's or men's tournaments.

Group A

Round 1




Round 2




Round 3




Group B

All six of the Group B fixtures will be played at the LNER Community Stadium in York.

Round 1




Round 2




Round 3




Knock out stages

Semi-finals

The semi-finals will be played as a double header at the LNER Community Stadium, York on 22 November 2021.



Final

The final will be played at Old Trafford, Manchester on 27 November 2021 as a double header with the final of the men's tournament.