2008 Rugby League World Cup Fixtures

2008 Rugby League World Cup
Australia
October 25 - November 22 , 2008

Semi Final Round Link

The Rugby League World Cup will be the 13th scheduled to take place between 25 October and 22 November. It will be the fourth time for Australia. The tournament will feature the best ten teams and split into three groups. A total of eighteen matches will take place in twelve different venues across four Australian states.

TV Coverage: Sky Sport, Fox Sport, BigPondTV, ESPN

Group A : Australia, England, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea
Group B : Fiji, France, Scotland
Group C : Ireland, Samoa, Tonga

Group Stage Fixtures (GMT)
October 25, 2008
- 9.50 England v Papua New Guinea

October 26, 2008
- 6.20 Scotland v France
- 8.50 Australia v New Zealand


October 27, 2008
- 7.50 Tonga v Ireland

October 31, 2008
- 7.50 Samoa v Tonga

November 1, 2008
- 6.20 Fiji v France
- 8.50 New Zealand v Papua New Guinea

November 2, 2008
- 8.50 Australia v England

November 5, 2008
- 7.00 Ireland v Samoa
- 9.00 Scotland v Fiji

November 8, 2008
- England v New Zealand


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Background
The Rugby League World Cup is an international competition contested by the men's national rugby league teams of the member nations of the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF), the sport's global governing body.

The first tournament was held in France in 1954, the first World Cup of either rugby code. The championship has been awarded at various intervals since and is used to determine the best playing nation in the world. The next tournament will be contested in Australia in 2008.

In the twelve tournaments held to date, only two nations have ever won the competition. Australia is by far the most successful World Cup team, having won the tournament nine times, displaying its continual dominance of rugby league internationally. Great Britain is the other nation to have claimed the cup, claiming it on three separate occasions. Since 2000, the RLIF has also organized the Women's Rugby League World Cup held on two occasions to date.

Credit Backgroun: Wikipedia