Papua New Guinea Rugby League

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Papua new guinea rugby league. The current competition is sponsored by pacific. Rugby league is the national sport of papua new guinea and is a popular sport in northern england eastern australia south auckland in new zealand southwest france and lebanon. Defeat in papua new guinea the only country in the world where rugby league is a national sport meant the tourists signed off their international return in disastrous fashion. The papua new guinea hunters currently the sp png hunters are a professional rugby league football club based in papua new guinea.

Papua new guinea rugby league planet 0 date. 3 11 18 england knights head coach paul anderson congratulated papua new guinea and reflected on an unforgettable experience for his squad after the kumuls came from behind in port moresby this morning to square the two match series with a 32 22 win. England were the first national team to play the kumuls in the year the country won its. In papua new guinea rugby league is a highly popular sport and is regarded as the country s national sport.

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 are nicknamed kumuls after the bird of paradise a national symbol of the country their first ever test match was a 40 12 home defeat by england in 1975. They compete in the rugby league world cup and first entered a team in the 1985 89 competition though it was not until the 1995 rugby league world cup that they were able to win away from. Papua new guinea international david mead has joined catalans dragons on a three year contract.

They were formed in 2013 to compete in the queensland rugby league s i ntrust super cup a second tier of rugby league competition in queensland australia. 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. 2017 rugby league world cup 03 12 17 4 40pm rlwc. 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.

Rugby league in papua new guinea was first played in the late forties.