RUGBY League Nines’ tilt at world domination continued at the weekend when tournaments were held in Serbia and Samoa. The Vailima Marist Fantastic Nines in Apia were contested for the fifth time at Marist Sports Club, with Saints taking out the men’s competition and Apia Maroons winning the women’s. Each retained titles they won in 2020. The women’s final saw…
THE grand trophy for Nicaragua’s best men’s Nines team will be presented on May 9, it has been announced. Nine-a-side rugby league arrived in Central America on Sunday with the four-team league opening and local Chinandega side Mercenarios topping the table after going through the day’s play undefeated. It was originally intended that the best team at the end of…
A new initiative to promote Rugby League Nines in non-traditional markets will be launched tonight with the first episode of #NinesAtNine. Rugby League Nines social channels will carry delayed coverage of the recent Malta-Ireland clash from the Sydney Nines, enhanced by commentary, graphics, replays and an introduction in Irish, at 9pm Dublin time. A version of the match with an…
NINES will be played in Central America for the first time on Sunday with one of Nicaragua’s biggest population centres hosts a four-team tournament. Rugby League is just two years old in the nation of 6.5 million, with four teams competing in the Campeonato Superior de Rugby League. Host city Chinandega is one of those teams but the Volcanos, as…
A NEW national rugby league competition in Canada will be played mainly under Nines rules because the format provides “more highlight moments”, according to the creator of the concept. Yorkshireman Chris Coates is the man behind the Canadian Co-operative Championship, a majority fan-owned league which is due to kick off next year before becoming a full-season concern in 2023. Coates…
AFTER introducing rugby league to Bangalore and entertaining fans in Sydney and Christchurch, rugby league Nines will this weekend aim to bring harmony to communities in Perth and Adelaide. The Perth Nines will run three days over the weekend at Lark Hill Sportsplex, Port Kennedy, involving men’s and women’s open age sides as well as a Masters component for each…
THE Sydney Nines will be broadcast worldwide at watch.rugbyleaguehub.com this weekend. An agreement has been reached between events company NovoSports, rugbyleaguehub.com and the tournament organisers for the most prestigious event in any non World Cup Nines year to be streamed. The Sydney Nines, which began life as the Cabramatta International Nines in 2008, will feature 22 men’s and women’s teams including national…
THEY were a B team in name only, Sao Paulo B edging out Rio Sharks in Brazil at the weekend as the Nines focus switches across the Pacific to Western Sydney for the year’s most prestigious tournament. The tour enjoyed en eventful Brazilian stop at Sao Lourenco, roughly halfway between the cities which bore the names of the teams in…
TIMARU Outlaws have withdrawn from this year’s Rolleston Nines, leaving the New Zealand tournament with six teams competing this Saturday. In an unprecedented start to the year for the exciting abbreviated version of rugby league, tournaments have already been held this year in Rarotonga (Cook Islands), Nadi (Fiji), Accra (Ghana) and Kundiawa (Papua New Guinea) with close to 1000 men…
IN the first three weeks of a 2021 – in the middle of the off-season and in spite of a global economic downturn – more than 700 men and women in the Cook Islands, Fiji and Ghana have played the rapidly expanding sport of rugby league Nines. It’s a new development for the wider game of rugby league, which is normally shut…
