Teams
The competition will contain fourteen teams, compared to ten in 2008. Originally around twenty teams were to be involved in qualification, but subsequently the total number of teams involved in the tournament was fixed at nineteen.
The home nations will compete separately again as England, Scotland and Wales. Twelve nations will automatically qualify, including those who competed at the previous World Cup, Wales as winners of the 2009 European Nations Cup and the Cook Islands as runners up in the 2009 Pacific Cup.
Oceania:
- Australia - 14th appearance
- Cook Islands - 3rd appearance
- Fiji (Bolton) - 4th appearance
- New Zealand - 14th appearance
- Papua New Guinea - 6th appearance
- Samoa (Warrington) - 4th appearance
- Tonga - 4th appearance
Europe:
- England - 5th appearance
- Wales - 4th appearance
- France - 14th appearance
- Ireland - 3rd appearance
- Scotland - 3rd appearance
- Italy (Leeds) - 1st appearance
Atlantic:
- United States (Widnes) - 1st appearance
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