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Whitehaven 2010 R.L.F.C. is a professional rugby league club playing in Whitehaven in west Cumbria. They play in Betfred Championship after winning Betfred League 1 in 2019. Their stadium is called the Ortus REC (known locally as the Recre). Their nicknames are 'Haven' or the 'Marras' (a local dialect word for 'mates').
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and South America, and referred to colloquially as football, footy or league in its heartlands, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 m (74 yd) wide and 112–122 m (122–133 yd) long with H-shaped posts at ...
Super League: 1 Sheffield Eagles: Championship: 2 Shaw Cross Sharks National Conference League: D1 4 Siddal: National Conference League: 4 Skirlaugh: National Conference League: D1 4 South London Silverbacks Conference League South: 4 St. Helens: Super League: 1 Stanley Rangers: National Conference League: D3 4 Stanningley: National Conference ...
Challenge Cups. 5 ( 1914, 1982, 2005, 2016, 2017) Hull Football Club, commonly referred to as Hull or Hull F.C., is a professional rugby league club based in West Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Hull play their home games at the MKM Stadium and compete in Super League, the top tier of British rugby league.
Ian Smales (born 26 September 1968) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at representative level for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, Castleford Tigers and Hunslet Hawks, as a wing, centre, stand-off, second-row, or loose forward, consequently he was known as a Utility ...
Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England. The club play home games at Post Office Road and currently compete in the Championship, [ 4][ 5] the second tier of British rugby league . Featherstone Rovers have won the League Championship once and Challenge Cup three times.
The France national rugby league team in 1951. On 10 July 1947, a "gentleman's agreement" was signed between the Ligue Française de rugby à treize (Paul Barrière as representative), the French republic and the French rugby union for division of the Ligue Française de rugby à treize in two parts: a Federation française de jeu à treize as the governing body of the amateur game and a Ligue ...
A significant portion of Rugby Union's revenue is derived from the national team touring overseas and visiting tours, while Rugby League's is largely generated by its strong domestic league. The number of rugby union players in New Zealand is estimated to be 129,000, with 95,721 [ 61] playing rugby league.