National Rugby League (NRL)

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Sponsorship & Marketing

Australian telco Telstra has committed to a new five-year league naming agreement with the National Rugby League for both the NRL and NRLW Premierships until 2027
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Events

The 2022 NRL Grand Final is to be held at Stadium Australia in Sydney after the Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC) and New South Wales (NSW) government agreed upon a short-term resolution to a dispute…
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Events

The National Rugby League (NRL) is to stage next season’s All Stars matches in New Zealand as part of an effort to revive interest in the competition following a long-term absence due to the Covid-19 p…
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Media

The opening match of this year’s State of Origin rugby league representative series drew 1.8
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Governance

Papua New Guinea has launched a bid to form a National Rugby League franchise
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Events

Australia's National Rugby League is looking at running a pre-season match in the US, and could exploit its links to Hollywood to get the plan moving, according to media reports
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Media

Pay-television operator Sky New Zealand has announced a deal with media company Discovery that will see three rugby league matches televised on Discovery’s free-to-air channel Three and streaming service T…
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Fan Engagement

Australian Football League chief executive Gillon McLachlan unveiled plans to exploit the burgeoning NFT space, speaking at the SportNXT conference in Melbourne today
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Finance & Law

The National Rugby League Women’s Premiership (NRLW) is to expand to eight teams in 2023 and 10 teams from 2024 as part of a major investment in women’s rugby league, the NRL has announced.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The National Rugby League has granted permission for the New Zealand Warriors to extend their principal sponsorship deal with telco Vodafone following a long-running dispute between the franchise and the…
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Governance

The CEO of the NRL's Melbourne Storm talks commercial innovation, matchday experience, pandemic recovery, and more.
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Media

German pay-television sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired platform-neutral rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to show Australia’s National Rugby League from 2022 to 2024.
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Finance & Law

Australia's National Rugby League recorded a surplus of A$43.1m ($31.2m/€27.8m) last season, owing to an increase in media rights revenue, sponsorship revenue and major game receipts.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Australia’s National Rugby League has signed cryptocurrency exchange Swyftx as its exclusive cryptocurrency exchange sponsor in a three-year deal, from 2022 to 2024, with a further two-year option until t…
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Media

Australian broadcaster Nine Entertainment is close to extending its biggest sports media rights property, free-to-air rights for the National Rugby League, according to local media
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Events

The National Rugby League has today (Thursday) been forced into scaling back capacity for Sunday’s Grand Final at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium by 25 per cent due to a Covid-19 outbreak in Queensland, and…
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Events

Brisbane will host the National Rugby League’s Premiership Grand Final for the first time after this year’s game was moved from Sydney due to escalating Covid-19 cases in the city.
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Media

All three of the main Australian television networks are expected to be allowed to bid for free-to-air rights to the National Rugby League, with the Australian Rugby League Commission said to be looking…