National Rugby League (NRL)

Rugby League
Events

Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) has today (Thursday) said it will hold talks with aggrieved rights-holder, free-to-air commercial broadcaster Nine, after laying out a plan for the Premiership t…
Australian Rules Football
Events

Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel yesterday announced it was laying off 200 staff and furloughing 140 more until the end of June, with chief executive Patrick Delany calling this week the "toughest…
Rugby League
Events

Australian former rugby league player Chris Johns is pushing an idea to move the country's NRL teams to an island off the coast of Brisbane, in an effort to restart the season
Australian Rules Football
Business

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit Australia’s major sports with varying degrees of severity.
Rugby League
Events

Rugby Australia has announced a provisional A$9.4m (€5.2m/$5.8
Finance & Law

Sports organisations around the world are making pay cuts and offering staff temporary contracts, among other money-saving measures, as the coronavirus shutdown squeezes cashflow
Australian Rules Football
Events

Australia's National Rugby League has today (Monday) followed the Australian Football League in suspending its 2020 season amid the Covid-19 outbreak, with officials stating the sport is set to face the…
Football
Events

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has insisted that cancelling this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo due to the Covid-19 outbreak is not under consideration.
Australian Rules Football
Other

Players in Australia's National Rugby League and Australian Football League competitions have been warned they face pay cuts due to suspended play under the coronavirus outbreak
Rugby League
Finance & Law

Australia's National Rugby League has reported a surplus of A$30.1m ($19.7m/€17.8m), on revenue of A$528m, in its 2019 annual report. The surplus figure was down 25 per cent on the A$40.2
Rugby League
Sponsorship & Marketing

Consumer electronics and home appliances company Hisense has agreed a three-year sponsorship deal with Australia's National Rugby League, running from 2020 to 2022. Hisense's deal involves several components
Rugby Union
Events

Australia's National Rugby League is considering holding a State of Origin match overseas
Rugby League
Media

The Australian Rugby League Commission, the sport’s national governing body, is considering splitting matches into four quarters rather than two halves to boost future media-rights income.
Rugby League
Events

Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) has announced that its Grand Final will effectively remain in Sydney until at least 2046 after reaching a resolution on where its showpiece game will be staged a…
Governance

Australia's parliament passed legislation yesterday to set up a new sports integrity body, the National Sports Tribunal, on a two-year trial basis
Rugby League
Governance

The Australian Rugby League Commission has announced today (Monday) that Peter V’landys has been elected as the body’s new chairman and will take up the role at the end of October.
Rugby League
Events

Australia’s National Rugby League and the Rugby League International Federation have confirmed that a new World Cup 9s event will be held next October at the currently under-construction Western Sydney S…
Other

The National Rugby League, Australia’s top-tier rugby league competition, is set to scrap its planned 2019 season opener in the United States, according to reports.