JUST six days after the men’s and women’s World Cup finals at Old Trafford, the road to the next tournament in France passes through Jerico, Colombia this Friday November 25. The host nation will be joined by Chile and Brazil in a three-day round-robin at Estadio JB Londono which will decide who progresses in Americas World Cup qualifying for the…
By CHAMPIONSHIP RUGBY LEAGUE WITH the most rugby league players ever assembled in the one location at one time in this country, the USA National 9s successfully opened the door on Stateside potential. The host city Winnemucca was the perfect backdrop for the 10 hours of rugby league played by over 200 athletes. With the perfect blue skies and mountains…
THE French women’s Nines featuring seven clubs will be staged at Stade Alessandra in Cavaillon tomorrow. Kicking off the domestic season with a Nines tournament is becoming an annual tradition in France, where the men had their event in Toulouges on Saturday. As in the men’s tournament, teams are split into two pools – in this case one of four…
THE French Elite 1 season, which runs over the Northern Hemisphere winter, will kick off with a 10-team Nines tournament in Toulouges this weekend. It’s a lightning-quick series of matches running from 2.3opm to 8.30pm on Saturday at Clairfont Stadium, with the sides divided into two groups. The top two teams in each group will proceed to the semi-finals and…
A THREE-weekend US National Nines Championship featuring several previously unknown teams and carrying prize money will be held this year in Nevada. It’s understood California-based officials will announce today an “opening weekend” of Nines play in Winnemucca on October 1, followed by a Women’s National Championship and a men’s Western Championship – held together in the same city on October…
A DAZZLING sidestep from England international Tara Stanley in pouring rain decided the first ever women’s rugby league title in Europe to carry prize money.The York City Knights star star glided through the Leeds defence after seven minutes at AJ Bell Stadium in the RFL Women’s Nines final to bag a converted try in the bonus zone – she did the converting too – and…
TODAY’s RFL Women’s Nines finals from AJ Bell Stadium in Salford are to be televised on the ouRLeague platform, it has been announced. Five English and one French club will play off after 20 teams originally took part in qualifying on May 1, fighting to be crowned Europe’s first club champions in the abbreviated version of rugby league. It will…
