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If you are looking for information regarding rugby union please go to the Rugby Union Portal. Rugby league is a team sport, played by two teams of 13 players. The aim is to carry an oval ball up the field towards the opponents in-goal where the ball is grounded to score a try. The opposing team attempts to prevent the attacking team from carrying out this objective by tackling the player with the ball. It is one of the two codes of rugby, the other being rugby union. The origins of the game was with a breakaway faction of the English Rugby Football Union (RFU) known as the Northern Union. When similar breakaway factions occurred from RFU-affiliated Rugby Unions in Australia and New Zealand, in 1907 and 1908 they formed associations known as Rugby Leagues and used the modified Northern Union rules. The Northern Union later changed its name to the Rugby Football League. Thus, the game became known as rugby league.

The sport is popular in England, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, France, Wales, USA and Russia. It is steadily growing in popularity in Lebanon, Serbia, Tonga, Fiji and Samoa. The biggest domestic leagues are National Rugby League, Super League Europe, AMNRL, Bartercard Cup and Elite One Championship. In 2008 the Rugby League World Cup will be held in Australia with ten teams taking part.

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Darren Lockyer (24 March 1977) is a professional rugby league footballer. He plays in the National Rugby League competition for the Brisbane Broncos. His preferred position is at five-eighth but he has also previously played at fullback. He has represented Queensland in the State of Origin on 27 occasions and as an Australian Test representative on 41 occasions. Lockyer originally played AFL but switched to league due to his region not having the AFL code. Lockyer made his first grade debut for the Broncos in 1995. In 2006, Lockyer captained the Broncos to the 2006 grand final as well as being in part of three previous premierships with the Broncos. Hunt still plays for the Broncos and is the incumbent five-eighth and captain for Australia and Queensland. Read more... edit

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The first ever Challenge Cup Final in 1897. Batley are on the left, St Helens are on the right. The match was played at Leeds in front of a crowd of 13,492. Batley won the match 10-3 and won the next Challenge Cup in 1898 too.

Featured in the Rugby League Challenge Cup article.

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Did You Know...

Did you know that the most tries ever scored in a match by an individual is 11. This occurred on 4 March 1905 by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) v Brookland Rovers.

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"Anyone who does not watch rugby league is not a real person."

- John Singleton in the The Australian newspaper, 1980.

"We don't have stars in our game, that's soccer"

- Frank Machin in the film This Sporting Life, 1963.

"We trained like Tarzan all week, then played like Jane."

- Frank Endacott, the Widnes Vikings coaching advisor after they were beaten 40-6 away to the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, 2004.

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Kazan Arrows, sometimes called Strela Kazan, are a rugby league club from Kazan, Tatarstan in Russia. They were formed in 1989 and currently play in the Russian Championship, the top-tier of rugby league in Russia.

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