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In Australia in 2009, rugby league's popularity was confirmed as it had the highest official television ratings figures of any sporting event. [31] The 2013 Rugby League World Cup was held in Europe, with the final played at England's Old Trafford in front of 74,468, the largest crowd to attend an international fixture. [32]
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, 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 ends. [1]
The European Rugby League (ERL) (previously Rugby League European Federation ... The federation was founded January 2003 following an initiative between Richard Lewis
Rugby Europe is the administrative body for rugby union in ... Fédération Internationale de Rugby Amateur (FIRA) was founded in 1934. ... League Country Tier Began ...
Rugby football match on the 1846 Shrove Tuesday in Kingston upon Thames, England. Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, [1] where the rules were first codified in 1845. [2]
Founded as the Rugby League Imperial Board in 1927 by the Rugby Football League, French Rugby League Federation, Australian Rugby League Board of Control and the New Zealand Rugby League. In 1948 it became the International Rugby League Board when its membership expanded and then the Rugby League International Federation between 1998-2020.
Rugby union also has a European-based franchised league in the United Rugby Championship (historically the Celtic League, Pro12, and Pro14). It was founded with teams in the Celtic nations of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and later added teams outside those nations, first from Italy and then South Africa.
National Rugby League [e] 17 1998 1 New South Wales Cup: 14 1908: 2 Queensland Cup [f] 14 1996 Melbourne Rugby League: 17 2001 NRL South Australia: 5 1952 NRL Western Australia: 14 1948 Northern Territory Rugby league: 6 1951 Ron Massey Cup [g] 3 NSW North Coast Division NSW Greater Northern Division NSW Riverina and Monaro Division NSW Western ...