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The tournament, with three games played at the Keepmoat Stadium and a team based in Doncaster, could bring in between £2million and £5 million locally, says Jon Dutton, chief exective of Rugby League World Cup 2021.

He addressed Business Doncaster and Doncaster Chamber’s latest Doncaster Ambassadors event at Castle Park, adding: “We’re focussing on social benefits it will bring for schools and volunteers who get involved, and the chance to get behind a global event. These don’t come round very often, and that’s why they are so special.”

The BBC is broadcasting all the matches live, and organisers want 750,000 people to attend matches, a record for a tournament started in 1954.

He said: “Be proud of this wonderful event, and help us raise awareness. We want to make sure those games at the Keepmoat Stadium are full and vibrant.

“We want to galvanise the local community to get behind the tournament and celebrate – it is more than just a rugby tournament.”

He said it was about creating inspirational moments.

He added: “In September the Rugby League will be launching a cross curricular schools resource that will be themed to the nation that is playing here in Doncaster and that will be about art, it will about different forms of learning, culture, and food, and that for us is a better way of engaging with the majority, rather than perhaps the minority who just want to play the sport.”

Doncaster RLFC chief executive Carl Hall, Curly's Athletes director Jonathan Frary, Doncaster Racecourse director of Sales Nikki Griffiths, Doncaster Council event lead for Tour de Yorkshire and UCI Andy Maddox, Visit Yorkshire chief executive James Mason, Rugby League World Cup 2021 chief executive Jon Dutton, at Doncaster Chamber's Doncaster Ambassadors event at Castle Park

James Mason, the new chief executive of Visit Yorkshire, thought the tournament was a perfect opportunity for people in Doncaster and South Yorkshire to celebrate international sport and look forward to something that would put the town on the map. He said eight per cent of visitors for the tournament were expected to be from overseas.

Andy Maddix, of Doncaster Council, said Doncaster saw over 100,000 people line the streets when the Olympic flame came through in 2012.

There are 32 teams due to play, with Jamaica and Greece playing for the first time in the men’s tournament, and Brazil playing for the first time in the women’s.

This is how Doncaster schools will get involved in town's £5 million Rugby League World Cup 2021