Australia’s Jillaroos produced the biggest win in women’s international rugby league history on Sunday, November 1, 2026, beating Wales 124-6 at CommBank Stadium, Sydney, in the Women’s Rugby League World Cup Round 3 clash — a 118-point margin.
The record fell in several directions at once. The result surpassed France’s 116-0 win over Serbia in 2023 and the Jillaroos’ own 92-0 defeat of France at the 2022 World Cup. It also passed the biggest international score of any kind — Denmark men’s 122-8 win over Sweden in 2012 — when Jaime Chapman’s sixth try in the last minute pushed Australia past the mark. (France’s men still hold the biggest men’s margin, 120-0 over Serbia in 2003.)
Winger Jaime Chapman scored six tries — a double hat-trick, including a first-half hat-trick — equalling the Jillaroos record for most tries in a game. Veteran Jess Sergis crossed for four, and five-eighth Jesse Southwell converted 20 of 21 attempts, missing only once all afternoon. The team ran in 21 tries in total.
The numbers kept coming: the 60-0 half-time score was the biggest of any World Cup match, men’s or women’s. Chapman (241m) and Sergis (241m) each ran for more metres than the entire Welsh side (215m), according to Fox Sports.
Wales had their own moment. Down 100-0 with 11 minutes left, Paige Travis scored the first points against the Jillaroos all tournament — and the wild Welsh celebrations that followed were as genuine as anything the afternoon produced. Wales, at their first World Cup after playing their first Test only in 2021, had earlier fallen 70-6 to England and 76-0 to Samoa. Australia now meet Fiji Bulikula in next Sunday’s semi-final at Allianz Stadium, hunting a fourth successive World Cup title — and on this form, few would bet against the Jillaroos 124-6 Wales world record being just the start.
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