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The Tonga national rugby league team (Tongan: timi līki ʻakapulu fakafonua ʻa Tonga) represents Tonga in rugby league football. They are currently the fifth ranked team in the world. The team was formed to compete in the 1986 Pacific Cup , and have competed at six Rugby League World Cups , starting in 1995 and continuing consecutively until ...
The first Tonga women's team was in 2003 and known as the Mate Ma'a Tonga women's team administered by the Tonga National Rugby League (TNRL) body. The newly formed Tonga women's national rugby league incorporated is under the Tongan Government with the national men's team. TNRL are no longer the national administrating body for Tonga Rugby League.
Tonga: Suva, Fiji: Unknown 5 November 1994 Tonga: 58–12 Niue: Suva, Fiji: Unknown 9 November 1994 Western Samoa: 16–34 Tonga: Suva, Fiji: Unknown 12 November 1994 Fiji: 11–34 Tonga: Suva, Fiji: Unknown 8 October 1995 New Zealand: 25–24 Tonga: 1995 Rugby League World Cup: Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington: 8,083 10 October 1995 Papua New ...
The Tonga Mate Ma'a squad was announced on 8 October 2024. [7] [8] Jersey numbers in the table reflect team selection for the Week 4 game against Australia. Statistics in this table are compiled from the website, Rugby League Project.
England and Tonga had only played each other three times previously, twice during the 2006 Federation Shield and during the 2017 Rugby League World Cup Semi Final. All three games were won by England. Tonga however, beat Great Britain during the 2019 Lions tour of New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. [5]
Rugby league first gained attention in Tonga when the Pacific Cup competition would be partially held in the country during 1986. After this initial exposure to the Tongan people several clubs began to form or switch from rugby union to rugby league and by 1988 the nation had enough depth in their player pool to begin playing national fixtures and would decide to enter the 1988 Pacific Cup ...
It is the largest number of teams and players participating in rugby league in Tongan history, with the National Schools Committee starting the Under 12s, Under 14s and Under 15s in 2008. In 2013 the Secondary Schools Competition featured 8 schools with teams competing in Under 13s, Under 15s, Under 17's and Open's competitions.
Mateaki Fonnama'atonga Mafi, also known by the nickname of "Matti", [2] is a Tongan dual-code international rugby union and rugby league footballer, and sprinter. He played representative rugby union (RU) for rugby league and representative rugby league (RL) for Tonga, most notably at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup, and participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 200m sprinter.