Papua New Guinea Rugby League Players

In papua new guinea rugby league is highly popular and is regarded as the country s national sport.

Papua new guinea rugby league players. The national side are known as the kumuls birds of paradise in tok pisin. The papua new guinea national rugby league competition or the pngnrl for short for sponsorship reasons the pngnrl digicel cup is a semi professional rugby league competition held annually in papua new guinea. 295 players have represented papua new guinea kumuls since 1975 starring with kumul 1 paul chue and the latest being dan russell in 2019 who is png kumul 295. This caused adrian lam to retire as head coach of the kumuls in september.

In papua new guinea rugby league is a highly popular sport and is regarded as the country s national sport. The papua new guinea national rugby league team represents papua new guinea internationally in the sport of rugby league football. The papua new guinea team experienced huge difficulties leading to the 2010 rugby league four nations tournament as politicians clashed for control over the game and the governing body the pngrfl was split over issues concerning junior development the national team and the papua new guinea nrl bid. This list may not reflect recent changes.

The papua new guinea national rugby league competition or the pngnrl for short for sponsorship reasons the pngnrl digicel cup is a semi professional rugby league competition held annually in papua new guinea formerly known as the sp inter city cup or sp cup 1990 2008 and later the bemobile cup 2009 2010 after changes in sponsorship. The papua new guinea national rugby league team represents papua new guinea in the sport of rugby league football. The current competition is sponsored by pacific.