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Durham Tigers date back to the early 1990s when rugby league began to be played in the North East of England. The team was formed by Steve Rich and was based at the cricket club in Langley Moor in the city of Durham. When adult rugby league moved to a summer season, the Tigers, located at a cricket ground, could not play in the summer.
The 2025 RFL League One is a professional rugby league football competition played in the United Kingdom and the third tier of the sport for Rugby Football League (RFL) affiliated clubs. The sponsors for the league are the bookmakers, Betfred and the league continues to be known as the Betfred League One .
National Rugby League [e] 17 1998 1 New South Wales Cup: 14 1908: 2 Queensland Cup [f] 14 1996 Melbourne Rugby League: 17 2001 NRL South Australia: 5 1952 NRL Western Australia: 14 1948 Northern Territory Rugby league: 6 1951 Ron Massey Cup [g] 3 NSW North Coast Division NSW Greater Northern Division NSW Riverina and Monaro Division NSW Western ...
The 2025 Super League season, known as the 2025 Betfred Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the 30th season of the Super League and 131st season of rugby league in Great Britain. Wigan Warriors are the defending champions, having beaten Hull KR in the Grand Final , to win their seventh Super League title.
The Women's Amateur Rugby League Association (WARLA) is the governing body of female rugby league in the United Kingdom; it currently falls under the Rugby Football League association which oversees its running and management. It was originally established in 1985 and was recognised by the RFL in its first year.
The 2025 RFL Championship, (officially known as the Betfred Championship for sponsorship reasons), is a professional rugby league club competition. The second tier of the British rugby league system comprises 13 clubs – 12 from England and one from France.
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, 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 both ends. [1]
During rugby league's 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, the Northern Rugby Football Union tried to arrange a match in Paris, but opposition from the Rugby Football Union-aligned French Rugby Federation made it impossible. [9] In France rugby league split from rugby union in the 1930s.