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The August 2023 announcement of the Pacific Rugby League Championships, by the NRL and Australian Government, indicated that Fiji and Australia would co-host the tournament in 2024. [3] [4] In May 2024, Fiji National Rugby League chief executive Don Natabe announced that Fiji were expected to host five national teams in a month-long Rugby ...
The Rugby League Pacific Championship is a rugby league tournament for national teams in Oceania. Its inaugural tournament was in 2019 as the "Oceania Cup". The tournament replaced the Anzac Test Series (1997–2017), which solely featured Australia and New Zealand as a single match annual test.
This article lists the official squads for the 2024 Rugby League Pacific Championships which are to be played from 18 October to 10 November 2024. For an explanation of the acronyms and abbreviations are used in the tables, please see the key to acronyms section at the end of this article.
On 27 November, Samoa re-engaged talks about the potential test series, [8] [9] and on 13 June 2024 the tour was confirmed, but with only a two-match test series (one short of a traditional tour), [1] [2] with the hope that the reduced schedule would allow Samoa to compete in the 2024 Rugby League Pacific Championships as well. [10] [11]
A two-match tour to France by Lebanon was announced in early September 2024 with two tests to be played in Pamiers and Albi. [12] The test series was cancelled five days later. The French Rugby League Federation initially stated that the series had been cancelled due to the NRL not released any Lebanese players. [ 13 ]
The Pacific Rugby League Championships was announced August 2023, as part of a $7 million investment by the NRL and Australian Government to develop rugby league in the surrounding countries. The tournament serves a continuation of the Oceania Cup which had one edition in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic .
The 2024 National Rugby League finals series will be a tournament staged to determine the winner of the 2024 Telstra Premiership season. The series will be played over four weekends in September and October, culminating in the 2024 NRL Grand Final on 6 October 2024. The top eight teams from the 2024 NRL season qualified for the finals series.
The 2024 NRL season is the 117th of professional rugby league in Australia and the 27th season run by the National Rugby League. All times are listed in AEDT ( UTC+11 ) from Round 1 to games on Saturday of Round 5 including the Grand Final and AEST ( UTC+10 ) from games on Sunday of Round 5 to the Preliminary finals.