Where Should the 2029 World Cup be held?

[Damien]

35 minutes ago, Jparrish said:

Like the majority of games in the North of England are drawing crowds ? It comes down to marketing, pricing and spreading the games around right. If they do these things right there absolutely can be a successful world cup in NZ. 

I happened to be living in Wellington at the time of the mentioned WC QF there was NO promotion or advertising for it.  And the PI nations will draw plenty of crowds

 

 

Games in the UK are generally profitable and have been for decades, that's why the NZRL are always so keen to tour here. Games in NZ generally aren't and crowds are poor. You also cannot escape the ticket prices being charged in this World Cup and the effect that has had on crowds. That should though result in a bumper payout to the IRL.

England games in this World Cup have and will far exceed anything that we would see in NZ for crowds involving NZ. Tonga are a very recent anomaly when it comes to crowds, you can't base a World Cup around that. A NZ v Fiji 2017 World Cup quarter final in Wellington only got 12,713, aren't Fiji a PI team? aren't NZ the host team? That should be as glamorous a tie as you can get for a game in NZ.

[UTK]

https://inews.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/rugby-league-olympics-2032-two-disciplines-1945494

Couple of threads in this article but further down Grant begins to cover the plans for 2029 onwards - Southern Hemisphere understandably the front-runner. Says America is still an option for 2033 and that Hawaii could form part of a Pacific Cup in 2029, potentially alongside hosting games in Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu but nothing concrete. 

States there's now a committee established to look at the WC 3 cycles ahead and they're hoping to release the new international calendar in December.