2025 Festival of World Cups

The 2025 Rugby League World Cup will be the seventeenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup and will be held in France in October and November 2025 Additional competitions under the Festival of World Cups banner are planned to be held in France around men's centrepiece competition. Beyond the Rugby League World Cup, there will be several other separate World Cups under the tournament umbrella, including the women's, wheelchair and youth competitions. There will be 16 teams playing in the women's, youth (Under-19 men) and wheelchair umbrella competitions. rdf:langString