Qualified Teams
- Pacific
6 teams qualified for the World Cup. 3 qualified automatically, with the top 2 in the Pacific qualifying group also reaching the finals. Samoa finished third in the Pacific qualifying group and earned a qualification spot by winning the repechage.
- Australia (automatic qualifier and host)
- New Zealand (automatic qualifier)
- Papua New Guinea (automatic qualifier)
- Tonga (Pacific qualifying group winners)
- Fiji (Pacific qualifying group runners up)
- Samoa (Repechage winners)
- Europe
4 teams qualified for the World Cup. 2 qualified automatically, with a further 2 finals berths for the winner of each European qualifying group.
- England (automatic qualifier)
- France (automatic qualifier)
- Ireland (Europe group 2 winners)
- Scotland (Europe group 1 winners)
- Atlantic
No teams from the Atlantic qualifying group reached the finals, with the USA losing at the repechage semi-final stage.
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