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The modern-day Rugby League Ireland was formed in 2001 initially in Leinster and Munster conferences, prior to this the competition was known as Ireland Rugby League, [3] though after a season the league reverted to a national competition for two seasons before the conferences were reintroduced for 2004.
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]
Rugby League Ireland (RLI) is the internationally recognised governing body for the development of rugby league football in Ireland, [1] having secured official recognition from the RLIF in 2000. It is recognised within the Irish Sports Council and took over the running of the Irish international team entirely in 2008 for the World Cup.
The Super League war, the financial problems of the 2000 Rugby League World Cup and the signing of several high-profile rugby league stars by the union game gave ammunition to this claim. With the professionalism of rugby union, several high-profile league players changed codes, with varying degrees of success.
Rugby union is a popular team sport on the island of Ireland, organised on an all-Ireland basis, including players and teams from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Its governing body, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), was founded in 1875, [ 2 ] making it the third oldest rugby union in the world after the RFU (England) and ...
Rugby football match on the 1846 Shrove Tuesday in Kingston upon Thames, England. Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, [1] where the rules were first codified in 1845. [2]
During rugby league's 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, the Northern Rugby Football Union tried to arrange a match in Paris, but opposition from the Rugby Football Union-aligned French Rugby Federation made it impossible. [9] In France rugby league split from rugby union in the 1930s.
2–48 Ireland: 2021 Rugby League World Cup: Headingley Stadium, Leeds: 6,000 [2] 73: 23 October 2022 Lebanon: 32–14 Ireland: Leigh Sports Village, Leigh: 6,057 [3] 74: 28 October 2022 New Zealand: 48–10 Ireland: Headingley Stadium, Leeds: 14,044 [4] 75: 21 September 2024 Netherlands: 28–30 Ireland: Friendly: Zaandijk Rugby Club, Zaandam ...