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The championships consist of several international rugby league tournaments being played from October to November 2024 between nations of the Pacific region. The competition format has been confirmed as Pacific Cup and Pacific Bowl competitions for both genders, with teams being divided in each case between higher-ranked and lower-ranked sides. [1]
This article lists the official squads for the 2024 Rugby League Pacific Championships which are to be played from 18 October to 10 November 2024.. For an explanation of the acronyms and abbreviations are used in the tables, please see the key to acronyms section at the end of this article.
The Rugby League Pacific Championship is a rugby league tournament for national teams in Oceania. Its inaugural tournament was in 2019 as the "Oceania Cup". The tournament replaced the Anzac Test Series (1997–2017), which solely featured Australia and New Zealand as a single match annual test.
Australia said it would commit A$7 million for a Pacific rugby league championship, in a "football diplomacy" move seen as boosting Australia's soft power amid competition for influence with China.
The 2024 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup [a] was the seventeenth Pacific Nations Cup (PNC) tournament, and the first with a new format design. [2] [3] Similar to the 2019 tournament, the same teams played each other, [2] [3] with the same round-robin structure. However, unlike 2019, the 2024 edition had a finals series following the pool stage ...
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The 2024 Super Rugby Pacific final was the twenty-ninth Super Rugby final and penultimate rugby union match of the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season. It was contested between the Chiefs and the Blues at Eden Park on 22 June 2024 to decide the champion of the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season .
The Pacific Rugby League Championships was announced August 2023, as part of a $7 million investment by the NRL and Australian Government to develop rugby league in the surrounding countries. The tournament serves a continuation of the Oceania Cup which had one edition in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic .