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The 2017 Rugby League World Cup Americas qualification will be a round-robin play-off where each team will play against each-other once to determine which one of three teams will secure a qualification spot in the 2017 Rugby League World Cup competition. The fixtures were alternating between Canada, Jamaica and the United States
The games were played in December 2015 at two venues in Florida in the United States.
Overview
On the 3rd of October 2014, the 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualifying competition was announced with more teams competing and vying for spots in the biggest tournament in the international version of the rugby league game. 7 teams who made the finals series of the 2013 Rugby League World Cup were announced as automatic qualifiers for the 2017 World Cup tournament. The teams who failed to qualify were all split into four regional qualification tournaments which would eventually result with the remaining 7 teams qualifying to compete with the initial 7 to finalize the 14 total teams that will compete in the 2017 event.[1]
Initially the United States would have qualified along with the other 7 2013 Rugby League World Cup Quarter-Final teams but the United States were not permitted to automatically qualify for the 2017 tournament after not being a full member nation like the other 7 nations who reached the 2013 quarter-final stages. Despite the controversy the United States were still allowed to 'reattempt' the 2013 World Cup performance by competing in an Americas qualification stage for the 2017 Tournament held in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. The United States, Canada and Jamaica would go on to take on each other in a round-robin qualification tournament held in Florida in December.[2]
Canada
Jamaica
United States
