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From humble beginnings the game of rugby league has grown to become an iconic part of everyday of life New Zealand and Australia.
The league code is most prominent in Australia, England, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea (where it is considered the national sport). It is also played professionally in France, Wales and the United States. The game is played at a semi-professional and amateur level in several other countries, such as Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, Lebanon, Germany, Japan, United States, Malta and Jamaica.
Rugby league takes its name from the Rugby Football League, which was established in 1895 as the Northern Rugby Football Union, a breakaway faction of the English Rugby Football Union (RFU). Both organisations played the game under similar rules at first, until similar breakaway factions occurred from RFU-affiliated rugby football unions in Australia and New Zealand in 1907 and 1908, and formed associations known as rugby football leagues, introducing modified Northern Union rules to create a new form of rugby football. The Northern Union later changed its name to the Northern Rugby Football League in 1922 (later dropping the 'Northern') and thus, over time the sport itself became known as "rugby league". Over the following decades, the rules of both forms of rugby were gradually changed, and now rugby league and rugby union are distinctly different sports.
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 The Sydney Roosters is a professional rugby league club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia.Read more » |
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 The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league team based in Cronulla, New South Wales in the Sutherland Shire, south of Sydney.Read more » |
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