Festival of World Cups

The Festival of World Cups is a collection of rugby league world cups usually held as a support series alongside the centrepiece Men's, Women's, and Wheelchair tournaments.

First held in 2008, as part of the Centenary of Rugby League in Australia celebrations, the festival has been a part of every Men's Rugby League World Cup since.

The 2008 festival included the following events:[1]

The same events also took place in 2013,[2] but due to concerns over funding in 2017 the Police World Cup was cancelled and the wheelchair tournament was relocated to France.[3][4] In 2017, the women's event was removed from the proceedings and upgraded to a centrepiece event,[5] along with the wheelchair event in 2021.[6]

The 2021 festival was anticipated to expand to include the following events:[7]

  • Masters Rugby League World Cup
  • Men's and Women's Armed Forces World Cup
  • Men's and Women's Student World Cup
  • Men's Emerging Nations World Championship
  • Women's Emerging Nations World Championship
  • Men's Police World Cup
  • PDRL World Cup

However, in August 2020, the festival was postponed and when the World Cup was rescheduled for 2022 only the Masters and PDRL events took place.[8][9][10]

A list of festivals are as follows:

References

  1. ^ "Results: 2008". RLEF. Archived from the original on 24 July 2009.
  2. ^ "About the Festival of World Cups". FOWC2013. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
  3. ^ "Rugby League World Cup already facing budget cuts due to shortfalls". Sydney Morning Herald. 8 May 2016. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  4. ^ "USA And Canada To Host 2025 World Cup". NSW Rugby League. 20 November 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Sydney to host historic Women's World Cup in 2017". NRL.com. 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
  6. ^ "2021 Rugby League World Cup: Emirates Stadium among host venues but Wigan misses out". BBC Sport. 29 January 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Record numbers for Rugby League Festival of World Cups 2021". www.rlwc2021.com. 13 September 2019. Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  8. ^ Shaw, Matthew (27 August 2020). "Festival of World Cups postponed". Total Rugby League – TotalRL.com | Rugby League Express | Rugby League World. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  9. ^ Field, Paul (15 November 2022). "International Masters festival biggest ever". Masters Rugby League. Archived from the original on 15 November 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  10. ^ "PDRL World Cup: England, Australia, Wales, New Zealand compete in first event". BBC Sport. 21 October 2022. Archived from the original on 21 October 2022.
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