List of Rugby League World Cup finals

The Rugby League World Cup is an international men's rugby league competition contested every several years between national teams of the members of Rugby League International Federation, the sport's governing body. Australia has won the most Rugby League World Cup championships, with its eleventh coming in the 2017 tournament in Oceania, in which it defeated England.

Results

Year	Champions	Score	Runners-up	Referee	Venue	Location	Attendance	Date
1954	Great Britain	16 – 12	France	C. Appleton	Parc des Princes	Paris, France	30,368	13 November 1954
1957	Australia	No final	Great Britain
1960	Great Britain (2)	No final	Australia
1968	Australia (2)	20 – 2	France	J. Percival	Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney, Australia	54,290	10 June 1968
1970	Australia (3)	12 – 7	Great Britain	F. Lindop	Headingley	Leeds, England	18,776	10 November 1970
1972	Great Britain (3)	10 – 10	Australia	G. Jameau	Stade de Gerland	Lyon, France	4,231	11 November 1972
1975	Australia (4)	No final	England
1977	Australia (5)	13 – 12	Great Britain	B. Thompson	Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney, Australia	24,457	25 June 1977
1988	Australia (6)	25 – 12	New Zealand	G. Ainui	Eden Park	Auckland, New Zealand	47,363	9 October 1988
1992	Australia (7)	10 – 6	Great Britain	D. Hale	Wembley Stadium	London, England	73,631	24 October 1992
1995	Australia (8)	16 – 8	England	S. Cummings	Wembley Stadium	London, England	66,540	28 October 1995
2000	Australia (9)	40 – 12	New Zealand	S. Cummings	Old Trafford	Manchester, England	44,329	25 November 2000
2008	New Zealand	34 – 20	Australia	A. Klein	Lang Park	Brisbane, Australia	50,559	23 November 2008
2013	Australia (10)	34 – 2	New Zealand	R. Silverwood	Old Trafford	Manchester, England	74,468	30 November 2013
2017	Australia (11)	6 – 0	England	G. Sutton	Lang Park	Brisbane, Australia	40,033	2 December 2017
2021		–			Old Trafford	Manchester, England		27 November 2021

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Years won	Years runner-up
Australia	11	3	1957, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2013, 2017	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