2013 Rugby League World Cup qualification – Europe

The 2013 Rugby League World Cup Europe qualification is a rugby league tournament that was held in October 2011 to decide the European qualification for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup. It consisted of a round-robin play-off involving four teams; Russia, Italy, Serbia and Lebanon.^[1] Both Italy and Lebanon remained unbeaten, recording two wins and a draw each. However, Italy topped the group as a result of points difference and therefore qualified for the World Cup.^[2]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	+/−	Pts
Italy	3	2	1	0	163	31	+132	5
Lebanon	3	2	1	0	147	23	+124	5
Russia	3	1	0	2	42	152	−110	2
Serbia	3	0	0	3	38	184	−146	0

15 October 2011

Italy	92–6	Russia
Tries: Mantellato (2), D. Nasso (2), Falcone (2), Ghietti (2), Parrata, Sands, Ciraldo, Riethmuller, Vicelich, Quitadamo, R.Nasso, Lennarduzzi Conv: Mantellato (14)	(Report)	Try: Nikolaev Conv: Lysokon

Stadio Plebiscito, Padova Attendance: 2,100[3]

16 October 2011

Lebanon	96–4	Serbia
Tries: Clark (3), Saleh (3), Barakat (3), Nye (2), Boustani (2), Deeb, Kassis, Adham El Zabedieh, Adnan El Zabedieh Conv: Couri (13), Ballout	(Report)	Try: Nedic

International Olympic Stadium, Tripoli

22 October 2011

Russia	0–32	Lebanon
	(Report)	Tries: Barakat (2), Azzi, Kassis, Adham El Zabedieh, Nye Conv: Couri (3), Boustani

Vereya Stadium, Vereya

FB 1 Maksim Suchkov RW 2 Mikhail Burlutskiy RC 3 Petr Botnarash LC 4 Vadim Fedchuk LW 5 Rustam Bulanov SO 6 Aleksandr Lysokon (c) SH 7 Eduard Ososkov PR 8 Sergei Konstantinov HK 9 Vladimir Vlasyuk PR 10 Ilgiz Galimov SR 11 Alexey Nikolaev SR 12 Grigory Esin LF 13 Sergey Gaponov Substitutions: IC 14 Igor Chuprin IC 15 Anatoly Grigorev IC 16 Vladimir Odnosumov IC 17 Artem Grigoryan Coach: John Stankevitch

FB 1 Clifton Nye RW 2 Adnan El Zabedieh RC 3 Danny Barakat LC 4 Danny Chiha LW 5 Adham El Zabedieh FE 6 James Boustani HB 7 Nadim Couri PR 8 Charlie Farah HK 9 Jamie Clark PR 10 Khaled Deeb SR 11 Nick Kassis SR 12 Steve Azzi LK 13 Ray Moujalli Substitutions: IC 14 Walid Yassine IC 15 Ibrahim Ballout IC 16 Chris Saab IC 17 Robin Hachache Coach: David Bayssari

23 October 2011

Serbia	6–52	Italy
Try: Pesic Conv: Nedic	(Report)	Tries: Minichiello (3), Lenarduzzi (2), Mantellato, Riethmuller, Parrata, D. Nasso Conv: Mantellato (8)

Makiš Stadium, Belgrade

29 October 2011

Serbia	28–36	Russia
Tries: Pesic, Nedic, Susnjara, Radan, Novakovic Conv: Nedic (4)	(Report)	Tries: Botnarash (3), Volkov, Esin, Ososkov Conv: Lysokon (6)

Makiš Stadium, Belgrade

29 October 2011

Italy	19–19	Lebanon
Tries: Falcone, Stewart, Mantellato Conv: Mantellato (3) DG: Ghietti	(Report)	Tries: El Zabedieh, Moujalli, Boustani Conv: Couri (3) DG: Couri

Makiš Stadium, Belgrade

Coached by Carlo Napolitano and captained by Anthony Minichiello, Italy's draw with Lebanon was enough for them to gain the 14th and final place in the 2013 World Cup.^[4]

The Italy squad as of 22 September 2011 is as follows:

• Coach: Carlo Napolitano

Club Team	Players
Harlequins RL	Craig Gower
Grifons Padova	Matthew Sands, Giacomo Simioni
Lézignan Sangliers	Christophe Calegari
Manly Sea Eagles	Vic Mauro
Monto	Dom Nasso
Mount Isa	Matt Parrata
Newcastle Knights	Cameron Ciraldo
Northern Pride RLFC	Ryan Ghetti
North Queensland Cowboys	Joel Riethmuller
North Sydney Bears	Alex Ranieri
Saint-Gaudens Bears	Jean Christophe Borlin
St Patricks Blacktown	Ryan Tramonte
Sydney Roosters	Anthony Minichiello (C)
Villefranche de Rouergue	Ray Nasso, Cederic Prizzon
Wentworth	Ben Falcone
Western Suburbs Magpies	Rocky Trimarchi, Rhys Lennarduzzi
Windsor Wolves	Ben Stewart
XIII del Ducato	Juan Pablo Carrara, Fabrizio Ciaurro, Thomas Covati, Giovanni Franchi, Romain Pavoni, Dean Vicelich, Santiago Monteagudo, Rob Quitadamo
Wyong	Josh Mantellato
West Bowling	Jonathan Marcinzack

The Lebanon squad as at 22 September 2011 is as follows:

• Coach: David Bayssari

Club Team	Players
Balamand	Allen Soultan, Samer Nehme
Cabramatta Two Blues	Nick Kassis
Canterbury Bulldogs	Steve Azzi
Cronulla Sharks	Jon Mannah
Jounieh RLFC	Youssef El Helou
Kingsgrove colts	Kamel Ahmed
Immortals RLFC	Ibrahim Ballout, Robin Hachache, Rudy Hachache, Walid Yassine
Manly Sea Eagles	Ray Moujalli
Mounties	George Azzi, Adham El Zabedieh, Adnan El Zabedieh
Narrabeen	Charlie Farah
Newtown Jets	Jamie Clark, Khalid Deeb, Ahmad Ellaz
St John's Eagles	Danny Barakat, Daniel Chiha, Nadim Couri, Ali Kourouche, Chris Saab, Adnan Saleh
Wentworthville Magpies	Cliff Nye, James Boustani
Wolves RLFC	Monir Finan, Ray Finan, Nemer Saliba

The Russia squad as at 22 September 2011 is as follows:

• Coach: Eduard Ososkov

Club Team	Players
Dinamo	Andrey Zdobnikov
Nevskaya Zastava	Grigory Esin
RBK	Valentin Baskakov, Artyom Grigoryan, Ruslan Izmaylov, Sergey Matveev, Denis Nikolskiy, Vladimir Odnosumov
Storm	Igor Chuprin, Vadim Fedchuk, Vladimir Gotsulyak, Alexey Volkov
RC Vereya	Petr Botnarash, Rustam Bulanov, Mikhail Burlutskuy, Ilgiz Galimov, Sergey Gapinov, Anatoly Grigoriev, Sergey Konstantinov, Aleksander Lysokon, Alexey Nikolaev, Eduard Ososkov, Roman Safronov, Andrey Sevostyanov, Maksim Suchkov, Vladimir Vlasyuk

The Serbia squad was named on 22 September.

• Coach: Marko Janković

Club Team	Players
Belconnen United Scholars	Adam Nedić
Car Lazar	Nenad Radević, Aleksandar Sič, Miloš Zogović
Dorćol Spiders	Danilo Delić, Vladan Kikanović, Dejan Lukenić, Stefan Nedeljković, Stefan Nikolić, Stevan Stevanović, Ivan Šušnjara, Milan Šušnjara, Vuk Tvrdišić, Nikša Unković, Dalibor Vukanović (C)
Hemel Hempstead RLFC	Ilija Radan
Hammers Niš	Marko Milenković, Lazar Živković
RC Lescure	Soni Radovanovic
Oldham R.L.F.C.	Austen Novaković
Radnički Nova Pazova	Nemanja Cojić, Pero Madžarević, Radovan Tajsić, Slaviša Zekić
Red Star Belgrade	Miloš Ćalić, Ivan Djordjević, Zoran Pešić, Nebojša Živanović
Stari Grad	Aleksandar Aleksić, Mirko Božović