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An as yet unnamed professional rugby league football team based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea will compete in Australia's National Rugby League from the 2028 season.. The inclusion of a Papua New Guinea-based team in the NRL was announced on 12 December, 2024, as part of the Pacific Rugby League Partnership involving the Australian Rugby League Commission and Australian Government, in ...
The Papua New Guinea team experienced huge difficulties leading to the 2010 Rugby League Four Nations Tournament, as politicians clashed for control over the game and the governing body, the PNGRFL, was split over issues concerning junior development, the national team and the Papua New Guinea NRL bid.
This is a list of Papua New Guinea national rugby league team players. 320 players have represented Papua New Guinea Kumuls since 1975 starring with Kumul # 1 Paul Chue [1] and the latest being Morea Morea in 2024 who is PNG Kumul #321.
“An NRL team for PNG is more than just sports — it is a national unification strategy." Rugby league is a 13-man version of the 15-player sport of rugby union. League is played primarily in ...
Papua New Guinea: 12–40 England: Friendly: Lloyd Robson Oval, Port Moresby: 12,000 29 May 1977 Papua New Guinea: 37–6 France: 1977 Les Chanticleers World Cup tour: Lloyd Robson Oval, Port Moresby: 14,000 14 September 1977: Western Australia: 33–9 Papua New Guinea: 1977 Pacific Cup: Davies Park, Huntly: Unknown 17 September 1977 Māori: 25 ...
The 2005 season had eight teams in total from all around Papua New Guinea. In 2006, one team got relegated (Monier Broncos) to make way for two new teams, Central Raiders and Pagini Warriors. The inaugural winner of the competition was the Agmark Gurias who beat the Brian Bell Bulldogs in Port Moresby.
Papua New Guinea first came into contact with rugby league during the gold rush in the 1930s through Australian miners. [5] Australian soldiers stationed in the country during and after the Second World War reintroduced the sport [6] and in 1949 and the Papua New Guinea Rugby Football League was founded. [5] It quickly became a popular ...
[39] [40] By November, talks had resumed and the Western Bears were largely expected to be announced as the NRL's 18th team, entering in the 2027 season. [41] On 12 December 2024, ARLC chairman Peter V'Landy's, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister James Marape announced a team based in Papua New Guinea would enter the NRL in the ...