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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]
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 ...
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]
Super Rugby — teams from Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific (known originally as Super 12 and later as Super 14; the name "Super Rugby" was officially adopted from 2011. It is now known as 'Super Rugby Pacific' for the upcoming 2022 season). Pacific Rugby Cup - Franchise teams from Fiji, Tonga & Samoa
Professional ice hockey leagues in Canada (6 C, 6 P) C. Canadian Football League ... Major League Rugby; Major professional sports teams in the United States and Canada;
Category: Rugby union leagues in North America. 1 language. ... Rugby union leagues in Canada (2 C, 3 P) U. Rugby union leagues in the United States (5 C, 9 P)
Canada has professional sports teams in eight sports across twenty 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.