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The Fiji Bati squad was announced on 6 October 2023, with Tui Kamikamica as captain. [13] Jersey numbers reflect the team selected for the Finals in week four. [2] Statistics in the table are drawn from the website, Rugby League Project, and include the Bowl Final on 5 November 2023. #
The championship included a collection of international rugby league tournaments to be played from October to November 2023 between nations located in the Pacific region. The competition was played in three groupings: the Pacific Cup for higher ranking men's teams, the Pacific Bowl for lower ranking men's teams, and a section of women's matches ...
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.
Tonga: Penitani (2023, having played for Australia in 2019). Samoa: Togatuki (2019). 19 of the 21 squad members have played Origin. Queensland (8) NSW (11) The two players yet to play Origin, Church and Whitfeld qualify for New South Wales. Nine squad members have played in an All Stars match Indigenous (4): Dodd, Joseph, Murphy, and Upton ...
The August 2023 announcement of the Pacific Rugby League Championships, by the NRL and Australian Government, indicated that Fiji and Australia would co-host the tournament in 2024. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In May 2024, Fiji National Rugby League chief executive Don Natabe announced that Fiji were expected to host five national teams in a month-long Rugby ...
The 1995 Samoan team had the benefit of ex-All Blacks John Schuster and Va'aiga Tuigamala in their backline. When rugby union went openly professional players such as Apollo Perelini and Fereti Tuilagi left rugby league to return to the 15-man game. Samoa lost the Pacific Cup in 1996. The 1998 Pacific Cup team saw a new and old talent.
Fiji won the championship this time, ahead of Samoa who narrowly edged-out Japan for second place. In October 2023, World Rugby announced that beginning in 2024 the Pacific Nations Cup will be contested by six permanent teams from North America, the Pacific, and Asia: Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga, and the United States.
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