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The Rugby League Writers' Merit Award is awarded annually to a player, coach or official for their services to the game of rugby league. The inaugural winner of the award was Geoff Fletcher in 1982. The award winner is presented with the Arthur Brooks Trophy, [20] named after a former rugby league journalist for the Daily Mirror. [21]
The Wigan Warriors qualified by defeating the Catalans Dragons in the 2023 Super League Grand Final. They previously played in eight World Club Challenges and won four, including a 21–4 victory over Penrith in 1991. The Warriors' last appearance was in a 12-point defeat to the Sydney Roosters in the 2019 World Club Challenge.
The first step was to reduce the Championship from 14 clubs to 13 at the end of the 2024 season. This was achieved by the bottom two clubs being relegated to League 1 but only the League 1 champions being promoted. The team finishing third-bottom in 2024 played the team winning the League 1 play-offs for the 13th spot in the 2025 Championship. [5]
The Rugby League Journal is a British rugby league periodical that is published quarterly. [1] It was founded in 2002. [2] The magazine is based in Egremont, near Whitehaven in Cumbria "for fans who don't want to forget" the game as it was prior to the arrival of Super League. [3] Its editor is Harry Edgar, the founder of Open Rugby (now Rugby ...
In January 2025, the RFL announced a change to the Super League's disciplinary system for the 2025 season onwards. Incidents charged from Grades A through to F by the RFL's Match Review Panel will now be graded in a points system; the lowest, Grade A, will result in one penalty point being charged against a player, followed by 3, 5 and 12 points respectively for Grade B, C and D incidents, and ...
The 2026 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC2026) is a collection of world cups in the sport of rugby league and is a replacement tournament for the 2025 Rugby League World Cup. Like 2021, the 2026 World Cup will see the men's, women's, and wheelchair world cups simultaneously. However unlike 2021, the men's tournament will feature ten teams only, and ...
Big League was [1] the official magazine of the National Rugby League. Its predecessor, The Rugby League News , was first published in 1920; [ 2 ] in 1974 it was rebranded as Big League . In 2020, due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and the initial suspension of the 2020 NRL season , production of the magazine was suspended ...
In May 2002, League Publications Limited acquired the 'Rugby Leaguer' newspaper and merged it with League Express to create Rugby Leaguer & League Express. In 2008, the Albert Goldthorpe Medal , named after Albert Goldthorpe , was created by the newspaper to honour the leading players in the Super League .