{"id":566114,"date":"2026-03-26T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:19:10","slug":"fiji-face-risk-of-being-kicked-out-of-2026-rugby-league-world-cup-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566114\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji face risk of being kicked out of 2026 Rugby League World Cup \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/fiji-face-risk-of-being-kicked-out-of-2026-rugby-league-world-cup\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Fiji face risk of being kicked out of 2026 Rugby League World Cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WP5_2388-crop-675x360.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FIJI BATI are at risk of being kicked out of the 2026 Rugby League World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Fiji National Rugby League\u2019s (FNRL) has failed to submit its Annual Membership Audit, as well as failing to in 2023, 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, it is a major threat to the nation\u2019s membership status with FNRL now being recommended to the IRL board for reclassification to affiliate membership.<\/p>\n<p>But,\u00a0reclassification to affiliate membership would mean Fiji Bati lose International Rugby League voting rights and eligibility to enter the 2026 Rugby League World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>FNRL can either accept the reclassification or appeal the decision.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted by the Fiji Sun, FNRL Chairman Apenisa Dansey said:\u00a0\u201cI have had a virtual meeting with the IRL secretary general and this was one issue that he brought to my attention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has instructed that our football administrator, Mr Epeli Tagivetaua to get in contact with Mr Butler who will be help him out by virtual meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Tagivetaua has been contact with Mr Butler and working a best solution that we can be compliant with our membership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Fiji Bati were forced to withdraw from the competition, their place would likely be filled by either Jamaica or South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIJI BATI are at risk of being kicked out of the 2026 Rugby League World Cup. That\u2019s because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-566114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}