Qatar have held talks about staging a British and Irish Lions Check match in 2025 as a part of a serious transfer into rugby.
Sportsmail has discovered that the Qatar Rugby Federation are desperate to capitalise on the World Cup by bringing different main occasions to the nation, with bids for a daily slot on the World Sevens Sequence and an try to host the Sevens World Cup additionally on the agenda.
Qatar’s bid to host the Lions includes a one-off recreation in preparation for the 2025 sequence in Australia.
Qatar is seeking to capitalise on internet hosting the FIFA World Cup by staging extra mega-events
The Lions might play a Check match in Qatar forward of their 2025 sequence towards Australia
The 2013 Lions performed the Barbarians in Hong Kong en path to Australia, with Qatar pitching for the same warm-up match in three years’ time.
The Qatar Rugby Federation have additionally opened talks with the World Cup Supreme Organising Committee about gaining common entry to one of many event’s eight stadiums.
‘The success of the World Cup has proven that we are able to stage the largest worldwide occasions on this nation,’ a supply concerned within the talks advised Sportsmail.
A leg of the annual World Rugby Sevens Sequence can be being focused by Qatari authorities
‘Qatar is already as a consequence of stage the 2030 Asian Video games and there is discuss of an Olympic bid in 2036 so we’re specializing in rising the Olympic sports activities. Rugby Sevens suits with that mannequin and we have now the infrastructure to stage world occasions.
‘A full rugby World Cup could be past us, however we might undoubtedly stage a one-off Lions Check and a Sevens event. Sevens solely wants one stadium and is accomplished in three days.’
The Sevens World Cup is held each 4 years, with Fiji successful the lads’s competitors and Australia claiming the ladies’s title in Cape City earlier this 12 months. The hosts of the 2026 competitors have but to be introduced by World Rugby.
