The France will not host the Rugby League World Cup in 2025. Organizers cite a problem of "financial viability" The 2025 World Cup was to bring together four competitions (women, men, wheelchairs and youth) simultaneously over five weeks in forty cities across the country.
The France will host the 2023 Rugby World Cup from September 8 to October 28 before the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024. It was to be, after 1954 and 1972, the third edition of the World Cup to be played only in France.