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On 28 October 2024, The Guardian revealed that talks were underway between Rugby League Commercial (a branch of the Rugby Football League) and the Australian Rugby League Commission regarding the men's games being moved to England, with venues in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and London being considered for the three test games. [2]
Tanya Arnold (born 3 January 1977 [1]) is a British sports journalist and former television presenter for BBC Look North. [2] [3] She was a presenter of the Rugby League World Cup 2022. [4] [5] In 2012 she joined the Super League Show, as one of Britain's first female sports presenters. [6] She began her career at Look North in 1998. [7]
26 October-30 November – Premier Sports broadcasts its first major international sporting event when it is joint broadcaster with the BBC of the 2013 Rugby League World Cup. [17] The channel also provides live coverage of the 2017 event. 2014. Premier Sports and BBC Sport replace Sky Sports as broadcaster of the Rugby League Four Nations ...
Until 2011, the BBC Sport website hosted an online sports forum entitled 606, named after the original start-time of the radio programme – six minutes past six. It covered a large variety of topics which included cricket, football, rugby (league and union), tennis, athletics, motorsport and many more. Sporting teams usually had their own ...
The Rugby Football League (RFL) approved three rules changes for 2022. On 20 January 2022, The RFL confirmed that scrums will return to all competitions, including the Championship and League 1 , having been suspended as part of the game's COVID-19 response in 2020 and 2021. [ 22 ]
The 2026 Men's Rugby League World Cup will be the seventeenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup, and will be one of three major tournaments part of the 2026 Rugby League World Cup. The competition was to be held in October and November 2025, [ 1 ] but was moved to 2026 following the withdrawal of France as the host nation.
England rugby league fans create an England flag ahead of the opening match at St James' Park. Competing countries were divided into four groups of four teams (groups A to D). Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage. [28]
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 m (74 yd) wide and 112–122 m (122–133 yd) long with H-shaped posts at both ends. [1]