• 14 teams will take part - Australia, Cook Islands, England, Fiji, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Scotland, Tonga, USA, Wales.
     
  • Matches will take place in venues in England, Wales, Ireland, France.
     
  • Warrington’s Halliwell Jones Stadium will host a group match and quarter-final.
     
  • Padgate Campus University of Chester will be used as a team training venue.
     
  • A total of 34 bids, comprising 30 stadia, 47 team training sites and 87 team base camps were submitted to the RFL.
     
  • Upwards of half a million people are expected to watch the 28 matches live over a six-week period in the autumn of 2013, with a further 20 million viewers from 120 countries tuning in around the world.
     
  • New Zealand are the current holders of the World Cup, having beaten Australia 34-20 in the 2008 final at Suncorps Stadium in Brisbane.
     
  • Italy and USA will be making their World Cup debuts.
     
  • New Zealand defeated rank outsiders Tonga 25-24 in the last World Cup match at Wilderspool Stadium in 1995.