Papua New Guinea Rugby

We re at deany leahy oval where it has a history of the kangaroos playing here the lions the french roosters.

Papua new guinea rugby. The papua new guinea hunters currently the sp png hunters are a professional rugby league football club based in papua new guinea. The highlight of png s rugby league calendar is an annual clash against an australian select side the prime minister s xiii. The experience is a much needed eye opener for the visiting australian players many of whom have. 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.

The national side are known as the kumuls birds of paradise in tok pisin. 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 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. Fiu religious studies major kyle decker plays a rough and tumble game of rugby with the gogodala tribe of papua new guinea.

In papua new guinea rugby league is a highly popular sport and is regarded as the country s national sport. The national side are known as the kumuls birds of paradise in tok pisin. In papua new guinea rugby league is a highly popular sport and is regarded as the country s national sport. Goroka is known for it s the only town in papua new guinea that everyone loves rugby league everybody plays rugby league everybody supports rugby league of all the ages they come here.

Debbie kaore has won gold for papua new guinea in boxing at the pacific games in 2015 and recently made the switch to rugby sevens representing her country at the hsbc world series last year. 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. 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. The papua new guinea national rugby league team represents papua new guinea in the sport of rugby league football.