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Canada attempted to launch the professional North American Rugby League along with the USA in 2021, however this never materialised. In 2023, Toronto Wolfpack, Canada's only professional club (who previously had completed in the British rugby league system) organised the Canada Cup, an international league for all of North America. [12]
The following is a list of rugby league competitions that are still currently in existence. This includes both international tournaments played by national Test teams and also domestic club and provincial competitions. Throughout the list bold indicates the league is a professional or semi-professional competition.
Toronto Wolfpack RLFC is a Canadian professional rugby league club based in Toronto, Ontario.The club is the first and only professional rugby league club in North America, and as of 2023 competes in the self sponsored Canada Cup, an invitational league for North American teams organised by Toronto Wolfpack.
Pages in category "Professional sports leagues in Canada" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Canadian Premier League is the sole professional league atop the Canadian men's soccer league system. It currently consists of eight teams: four in Eastern and Western Canada each. As of its 2023 season, the minimum salary for a player was CA$30,000, and the maximum was ~CA$75,000. [7] [8]
In September 2016, with at least five amateur rugby union clubs across the United States discussing a possible professional league, Dean Howes, [9] who had previously been an executive with Major League Soccer's Real Salt Lake and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, stepped in as senior strategic advisor for Rugby Utah in an attempt to provide a pathway for expanding ...
This is a list of professional sports leagues. A sports league is a professional body that governs the competition of its teams. [ clarification needed ] They make the rules for competition and behavior and disciplines its members as necessary.
The American Youth Rugby League Association is responsible for the first American in history to be brought through a rugby league youth development program to play for a first grade side. [ 20 ] In 2012, the AMNRL reached a partnership agreement with Grand Prix Rugby to broadcast and finance the sport within the United States, in the lead up to ...