Papua New Guinea Rugby Players

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

Papua new guinea rugby players. This caused adrian lam to retire as head coach of the kumuls in september. David mead is known as one of the fastest players in the nrl over 100 metres. Papua new guinea previous match was against great britain and irish lions in international friendlies match ended with result 28 10 papua new guinea won the match. 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.

Rugby league players in papua new guinea by club 9 c pages in category papua new guinean rugby league players the following 124 pages are in this category out of 124 total. The papua new guinea national rugby league team represents papua new guinea in the sport of rugby league football. The papua new guinea international representative plays primarily on the wing but can also play both fullback and centre. 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.

Papua new guinea fixtures tab is showing last 100 rugby matches with statistics and win lose icons. This is a list of papua new guinea national rugby league team players. David mead is an papua new guinean rugby league footballer for the gold coast titans of the national rugby league. 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.

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. The national side are known as the kumuls birds of paradise in tok pisin. This list may not reflect recent changes. The national side are known as the kumuls birds of paradise in tok pisin many papua new guinean players have left the country in order to pursue professional.

The papua new guinea national rugby league team represents papua new guinea internationally in the sport of rugby league football. The papua new guinea national rugby union team nicknamed the pukpuks tok pisin for crocodiles played its first international in 1966 defeating vanuatu 47 3.