article_snippet.sent: With Expo 2020 being here, with all the infrastructure being created, it will be the perfect time. '
article_snippet.sent: The Rugby League International Federation board has said expressions of interest will be sought by the first quarter of 2015 and invitations to tender will be sent out and an evaluation committee appointed, with bids submitted during the first quarter of 2016.
article_snippet.sent: RLIF chairman Nigel Wood said: 'I fully anticipate that for 2021 more nations than ever before will be submitting bids to stage the tournament and, with the decision being made in advance of the 2017 competition, there will be excellent opportunities to shadow organisers and learn from that event.'