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  2. Rugby league playing field - Wikipedia

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    The rugby league playing field, [1] also referred to as a pitch [2] or paddock, is the playing surface for the sport of rugby league football and is surfaced exclusively with grass. [ 3 ] The dimensions and markings of a full-sized playing area are defined in Section 1 of the Laws of the Game . [ 1 ]

  3. List of rugby union stadiums by capacity - Wikipedia

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    The Stade Ernest-Wallon, the home of Stade Toulousain.. The following is a list of stadiums at which rugby union is played, ordered by seating capacity.Currently all stadiums with a capacity of 10,000 or more which are the regular home venue of a club or national team, or are the regular hosts of a major competition (such as an event in the World Rugby Sevens Series, its women's version, or ...

  4. List of English rugby union stadiums by capacity - Wikipedia

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    Below is a list of rugby union stadiums used in Premiership Rugby during the 2023-2024 season. There are 10 stadiums in total, with 10 of them representing the permanent home ground of each Premiership side.

  5. Glossary of rugby union terms - Wikipedia

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    The official name of a rugby playing field. Dimensions are 100 m long by 70 m wide. Place kick The place kick is a kicking style commonly used when kicking for goal. It typically involves placing the ball on the ground. To keep the ball in position, a mound of sand or plastic tee is sometimes used. Pop pass A very short pass. Professional foul

  6. Rugby union gameplay - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a rugby union playing field showing the different marked lines and distances. Rugby union is a contact sport that consists of two teams of fifteen players. The objective is to obtain more points than the opposition through scoring tries or kicking goals over eighty minutes of playing time. The play is started with one team drop ...

  7. Comparison of American football and rugby league - Wikipedia

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    An American football field A rugby league field. American football is played on a rectangular field 120 yards (110 m) long by 53 1⁄3 yards (48.8 m) wide. Near each end of the field is a goal line, which are 100 yards (91 m) apart. A scoring area called an end zone extends 10 yards (9.1 m) beyond each goal line. Yard lines cross the field ...

  8. Comparison of American football and rugby union - Wikipedia

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    In professional football these central hash marks are the same width as the goalposts (18 feet, 6 inches wide), in college football they are 40 feet apart and in high school football they are 53 feet, 4 inches apart. In rugby there are four longitudinal dotted lines. Two are marked 5 meters in from the touch lines and two a further ten metres in.

  9. Rugby league - Wikipedia

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    Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby (13) XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and referred to colloquially as football, footy, rugby, or league in its heartlands, 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 ...