List of Rugby League World Cup finals

Rugby League World Cup final
Teams2
First meeting1954
Latest meeting2021
Next meeting2026
Statistics
Meetings total12
Most wins Australia (12 titles)
Largest victory Australia 40–12  New Zealand

The Rugby League World Cup is an international men's rugby league competition contested every several years between national teams of the members of International Rugby League, the sport's governing body. Australia has won the most Rugby League World Cup championships, with its twelfth coming in the 2021 tournament in England, in which they defeated Samoa.

List of Finals

Key to the list
a.e.t. Match was won during extra time
Year Champions
(Number of times) 		Score Runners-up Venue Location Attendance
1954  Great Britain 16–12  France Parc des Princes Paris,  France 30,368
1957  Australia [a 1]  Great Britain N/A
1960  Great Britain (2)  Australia
1968  Australia (2) 20–2  France Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney,  Australia 54,290
1970  Australia (3) 12–7  Great Britain Headingley Stadium Leeds,  England 18,776
1972  Great Britain (3) 10–10
(a.e.t.) 		 Australia Stade de Gerland Lyon,  France 4,231
1975  Australia (4) —  England N/A
1977  Australia (5) 13–12  Great Britain Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney,  Australia 24,457
1988  Australia (6) 25–12  New Zealand Eden Park Auckland,  New Zealand 47,363
1992  Australia (7) 10–6  Great Britain Wembley Stadium London,  England 73,631
1995  Australia (8) 16–8  England Wembley Stadium London,  England 66,540
2000  Australia (9) 40–12  New Zealand Old Trafford Manchester,  England 44,329
2008  New Zealand 34–20  Australia Lang Park Brisbane,  Australia 50,559
2013  Australia (10) 34–2  New Zealand Old Trafford Manchester,  England 74,468
2017  Australia (11) 6–0  England Lang Park Brisbane,  Australia 40,033
2021  Australia (12) 30–10  Samoa Old Trafford Manchester,  England 67,502

Team performance

Team Winners Runners-up Years won Years runner-up
 Australia 12 3 1957, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2013,
2017, 2021 		1960, 1972, 2008
 Great Britain 3 4 1954, 1960, 1972 1957, 1970, 1977, 1992
 New Zealand 1 3 2008 1988, 2000, 2013
 England 0 3 – 1975, 1995, 2017
 France 0 2 – 1954, 1968
 Samoa 0 1 – 2021

See also

Notes

  1. ^ There was no official World Cup final match in 1957 and 1960. The tournament winner was decided by a round robin contested by four teams.

References