{"id":229455,"date":"2025-10-28T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229455\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:45:08","slug":"super-league-stars-help-book-spot-in-2026-rugby-league-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229455\/","title":{"rendered":"Super League stars help book spot in 2026 rugby league world cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plenty of Super League stars were on show as France booked their spot in the 2026 Rugby League World Cup with a dominant 36-0 win over Jamaica.<\/p>\n

The two nations should have been involved a World Series this autumn also involving the Cook Islands and South Africa.<\/p>\n

But no suitable bids to host said World Series were received, so it was decided that two play-off games would decide who gets the last two spots at the World Cup, split across the two hemispheres.<\/p>\n

This clash between France<\/a> and Jamaica in Albi was the Northern Hemisphere play-off, and ended up a one-sided affair.<\/p>\n

Super League stars shine as France clinch penultimate spot in 2026 Rugby League World Cup<\/p>\n

There were just two players in France\u2019s 18-man squad that didn\u2019t ply their trade in the British game during the 2025 campaign, with the bulk coming from Super League.<\/p>\n

Hull KR full-back Arthur Mourgue earned eight of their 36 points from the kicking tee via four conversions, with Catalans Dragons pair Leo Darrelatour and Julian Bousquet among the try-scorers.<\/p>\n

Dragons stalwarts Fouad Yaha and Paul Seguier, who both departed the Stade Gilbert Brutus at the end of the 2025 season, were also on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n

Jamaica\u2019s squad also included plenty of recognisable faces, including York\u2019s Ben Jones-Bishop, Huddersfield Giants\u2019 Kieran Rush and Toulouse Olympique\u2019s Ajahni \u2018AJ\u2019 Wallace.<\/p>\n

France will join Australia, England, Fiji, Lebanon, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tonga at next year\u2019s World Cup, which is being held across Australia and PNG.<\/p>\n

Either the Cook Islands or South Africa will join them to complete a ten-nation tournament, with their Southern Hemisphere qualifying play-off taking place on November 9 in Sydney as part of the Pacific Championships schedule.<\/p>\n

2026 Women\u2019s Rugby League World Cup line-up completed<\/p>\n

Elsewhere over the weekend, the last spot in next year\u2019s Women\u2019s Rugby League World Cup was taken by Fiji<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bulikula will compete in their first-ever World Cup having come out on top in their World Series final against Nigeria, cantering to a 62-4 victory.<\/p>\n

Full-back Cassie Staples grabbed four tries in the Brampton showpiece of the World Series as team-mate Leilani Asham scored a hat-trick. Nigeria\u2019s only response came through Success Iyoha at the end of the first half.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, Fiji will join Australia, England, France, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Wales in the 2026 Women\u2019s Rugby League World Cup, which will be an eight-team tournament.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that Fiji had beaten Canada convincingly in the semi-finals of the World Series while Nigeria edged past Ireland.<\/p>\n

Those beaten semi-finalists played out a third-place play-off, and it was Canada that came out on top, beating Ireland 36-6 after scoring 30 unanswered second half points.<\/p>\n

St Helens forward Chantelle Crowl represented the Ravens while Leigh Leopards star Storm Cobain was in the Ireland squad and kicked a goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plenty of Super League stars were on show as France booked their spot in the 2026 Rugby League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-229455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}