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2021 Men's Rugby League World Cup Group B

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Group B of the 2021 Rugby League World Cup is one of the four groups in the 2021 Rugby League World Cup, which will begin on 23 October and will be completed on 6 November 2021. The group comprises automatic qualifiers Australia and Fiji as well as Scotland and Italy, who both qualified through the 2019 European play-off tournament.

The pool draw was made on 16 January 2021.[1] The fixtures were announced on 21 July 2020.[2]

Overall

Key to colours in pool tables
Advances to knockout stage and qualifies for the 2025 Rugby League World Cup
Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1  Australia 3 3 0 0 192 14 +178 6 Advance to knockout stage
2  Fiji 3 2 0 1 98 60 +38 4
3  Italy 3 1 0 2 38 130 −92 2
4  Scotland 3 0 0 3 18 142 −124 0
Source: rlwc2021

Australia vs Fiji

23 October 2021
19:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Australia  v  Fiji

Scotland vs Italy

24 October 2021
14:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Scotland  v  Italy

Australia vs Scotland

29 October 2021
19:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Australia  v  Scotland

Fiji vs Italy

30 October 2021
14:30 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Fiji  v  Italy

Fiji vs Scotland

6 November 2021
17:00 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Fiji  v  Scotland

Australia vs Italy

References

  1. ^ "Rugby League World Cup 2021 draw: England drawn with Samoa, France and Greece". BBC Sport. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  2. ^ "England start against Samoa at World Cup". BBC Sport. 21 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.