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Rugby league is the fourth most popular team sport in England. Historically, rugby league has been the second biggest spectator sport in England with 6.8 million spectators attending the 1948–1949 English season.
The England national team is the worlds oldest national rugby league team, having played the first international rugby league game in 1904 against Other Nationalities, [a] a team initially made up of Welsh and Scottish players. [2] England have made the Rugby League World Cup final three times, being runners-up; in 1975, 1995 and 2017.
Rugby league is the dominant winter sport in the eastern Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland. [46] The game is also among the predominant sports of Tonga [47] and is played in other Pacific nations such as Samoa and Fiji. Researchers have found that rugby league has been able to help with improving development in the islands. [48]
The Rugby Football League (RFL) is the governing body for rugby league in England. [4] Founded in 1895 as the Northern Rugby Football Union following 22 clubs resigning from the Rugby Football Union , it changed its name in 1922 to the Rugby Football League .
Most of Wikipedia's articles on English rugby league can be found in Category:Rugby league in the United Kingdom Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rugby league in England . Subcategories
The history of rugby league as a separate form of rugby football goes back to 1895 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire when the Northern Rugby Football Union broke away from England's established Rugby Football Union to administer its own separate competition. [3]
The team is governed by the Rugby Football League, and is a full member of the RLIF and RLEF. Since the team's first official match in 1904, over 700 players have been selected to represent England. The following is a list of all players who have been awarded a heritage number by the Rugby Football League.
There have been thirteen head coaches of the English national rugby league team since 1974. In the early years Great Britain played in major tournaments until the 1990s as the England team played sporadically in other competitions. The role is a part-time job so coaches can coach a domestic club team as well as the national team.