• RUGBY LEAGUE WORLD CUP

   

  
• RUGBY LEAGUE WORLD CUP OVERVIEW

 

Host Nation - England and Wales

 

Number of Teams - 10

 

Highest Crowd - 66,540 London, England

 

Average Crowd - 17,706

 

Total Crowd - 265,592

 

1995 World Cup Snapshot - The 1995 World Cup celebrated 100 years of Rugby League. For the first time 10 teams took part in the tournament. In the opening game England caused an upset by beating Australia 20 -16 in front of 41,271 fans. That set the scene for the rest of the tournament with many classic games. The semi finals produced two great games. New Zealand pushed Australia and could have won the game with a try on full time. NZ missed the conversion locking the scores at 20 all. Australia ran away with the game in extra time booking a place in the final. In the other game England had to work hard to beat a determined Welsh side that gave their all. In front of 66,540 at Wembley, Australia defeated England 16 - 8 in the World Cup Final.

 



 

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Game 1

Oct 7th England 20 - Australia 16

Location - Wembley, England

Crowd - 41,271

 

Game 2

ct 8th Fiji 52 - South Africa 6

Location - Keighley, England

Crowd - 4,845

 

Game 3

Oct 10th Australia 86 - South Africa 6

Location - Gateshead, England

Crowd - 9,191

 

Game 4

Oct 11th England 46 - Fiji 0

Location - Wigan, England

Crowd - 26,263 (sellout)

 

Game 5

Oct 14th Australia 66 - Fiji 0

Location - Huddersfield, England

Crowd - 7,127

 

Game 6

Oct 14th England 46 - South Africa 0

Location - Leeds, England

Crowd - 14,014

 

The World Cup kicked of at Wembley Stadium with Australia playing England. England made a great start to the tournament by beating Australia 20-16. After the win England were rated a good chance of winning the World Cup for the first time since 1972. As history would show England stumbled at the final hurtle.

 

15 games were played throughout the tournament. Some games were played outside the traditional rugby league heartland in the North. London, Cardiff, Gateshead and Swansea all hosted Word Cup games bringing rugby league to a new audience.

 

Overall the tournament was hailed a great success with good crowds and competitive games. With two sellout games in Wales, rugby league showed that the game had grown outside of it's Northern England heartland.

 

Pool Table

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	PTS
England	3	3	0	0	112	16	6
Australia	3	2	0	1	168	26	4
Fiji	3	1	0	2	52	118	2
South Africa	3	0	0	0	12	184	0

 

Group One Semi-Final Qualifiers

 

ENGLAND

 

 

 

AUSTRALIA

 

 

 

 

WORLD CUP GROUP TWO RESULTS

 

Game 1

Oct 8th New Zealand 25 - Tonga 24

Location - Warrington, England

Crowd - 8,083-

 

Game 2

Oct 10th Papua New Guinea 28 - Tonga 28

Location - Hull, England

Crowd - 5,121

 

Game 3

Oct 13th New Zealand 22 - Papua New Guinea 6

Location - St Helens, England

Crowd - 8,679

 

The opening game between New Zealand and Tonga was a World Cup classic. New Zealand were clear favourites but someone forgot to tell the Tongan's. Tonga raced away to a 24 to 12 lead over New Zealand with some enterprising play. New Zealand hit back late in the game to level the scores 24 all. In the dying minutes Matthew Ridge landed a field goal from right in front to seal the game for the Kiwis.

 

Game 2 was a tightly contested game. Tonga were in the lead for most of the game. Every time Tonga looked like running away with the game PNG would bounce back staying within striking distance. PNG scored the final try in injury time to level the scores at 28 all.

Pool Table

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	PTS
New Zealand	2	2	0	0	47	30	4
Tonga	2	0	1	1	52	53	1
Papua New Guinea	2	0	1	1	34	50	1

WORLD CUP GROUP THREE RESULTS

 

Game 1

Oct 9th Wales 28 - France 6

Location - Cardiff, Wales

Crowd - 10,250 (sellout)

 

Game 2

Oct 12th Western Samoa 56 - France 10

Location - Cardiff, Wales

Crowd - 2,173

 

Game 3

Oct 15th Wales 22 - Western Samoa 10

Location - Swansea, Wales

Crowd - 15,385 (sellout)

 

The opening game saw Wales race away with the game against France in front of a record rugby league crowd for Cardiff.

 

In the second game Western Samoa went on a try scoring spree leaving France to think about the next World Cup.

 

The final game saw the best two teams Wales and Western Samoa battle it out for a spot in the World Cup Semi Finals. On the back of Jonathan Davis, Wales proved to strong defeating Western Samoa 22 - 10

 

Pool Table

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	PTS
Wales	2	2	0	0	50	16	4
Western Samoa	2	1	0	1	66	32	2
France	2	0	0	2	16	84	0

WORLD CUP SEMI-FINALS

 

Semi-Final 1

Oct 21st England 25 - Wales 10

Location - Old Trafford, Manchester, England

Crowd - 30,042

 

Semi-Final 2

Oct 22nd Australia 30 - New Zealand 20 *

Location - McAlpine Stadium, Huddersfield, England

Crowd - 16,608

 

* 20 all at full time, Extra time result 30 - 20

 

Grand Final Qualifiers

 

ENGLAND

 

 

AUSTRALIA

 

 

 

• WORLD CUP FINAL

   

  World Cup Final

  Oct 28th Australia 16 - England 8

  Location - Wembley Stadium, London, England

  Crowd - 66,540

   

  World Cup Champions

   

  

   

  AUSTRALIA

   

  

 

The World Cup Final was played in front of a near capacity crowd at Wembley. England were pinned down in their own half for most of the game on the back of poor discipline. England put up a great fight but the lack of possession hurt them in the back end of the game. Australia defeated England 16 - 8, and secured the World Cup for the 8th time.