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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.
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 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 ...
Canada has professional sports teams in eight sports across twenty-one leagues. Canadian teams compete in top-level American and Canadian-based leagues, including three of the four major professional sports leagues. Canada also has minor league teams competing in American and Canadian-based basketball, hockey, soccer, and baseball leagues.
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 .
This list attempts to show those sports leagues for which all players and teams are paid to play. In other words, these players can be considered to play their chosen sport as their profession . Some leagues do not pay well enough to allow players to use them as their primary or only source of income, but because the players are paid, it is ...
Canada Rugby League (CRL) (French: Rugby à XIII du Canada) is the governing body for the sport of rugby league football in Canada. [2] Founded in 2010, the CRL organizes the Canada national rugby league team and supports the development of the game through the country's domestic competitions.