Draws to be made for Euro men’s and women’s competitions

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FROM: ERL MEDIA DEPARTMENT

DATE: 21 February, 2023

DRAWS TO BE MADE FOR EURO MEN’S AND WOMEN’S COMPETITIONS

The draws will be made for both the European Championships A (men) and the first-ever European Rugby League World Cup 2025 Qualifiers (women) tomorrow (Wednesday) in Huddersfield.

The draw for the women’s competition will be made by Julia Lee (chair of the IRL’s Women & Girls Advisory Group) and Joanna Carr-Will (former Great Britain Lioness and heritage number 1).

The men’s will be made by Lisa McIntosh (former Great Britain Lioness and the first black woman to captain a GB team in any sport and one of the first women to be inducted into the RFL’s Hall Of Fame) and Michelle Hargreaves nee Janczuk (former Great Britain Lioness who toured New Zealand with the side in 1998).

The nations competing are:

European Championships A (men)

England

France

Ireland

Italy

Scotland

Serbia

Spain

Wales

European Rugby League World Cup 2025 Qualifiers (women)

Greece

Ireland

Italy

Malta

Netherlands

Serbia

Turkey

Wales

Phil Caplan

Media Manager

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