A team from rugby league hotspot Papua New Guinea will enter the National Rugby League from 2028 after officially being ...

Australia and Papua New Guinea unveil a long-awaited deal handing PNG its own NRL team, confirming the league's most ambitious expansion since formation, and notching what the federal government is ...

SYDNEY (AP) — A team from rugby league hotspot Papua New Guinea will enter the National Rugby League from 2028 after officially being granted a license.

The deal, which also seeks to boost Australian tourism to PNG, comes as Australia seeks to limit China's security ambitions in the Pacific Islands. "Rugby league is the national sport of Papua New ...

Papua New Guinea team to join Australian competition - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his counterpart James ...

Papua New Guinea will have a team in the NRL from 2028 and beyond. After months of speculation, the franchise has now been ...

Papua New Guinea's copper- and gold-rich Bougainville region is set to declare independence by 2027, eight years after a landslide vote to secede, its leader said Wednesday.

As it stands all the NRL will announce is that PNG are coming into the competition in 2028. They won’t call them the 18th or 19th team. Papua New Guinea’s admission into the NRL is set to be ...

Signings for PNG are likely to be exempt from paying ... while hooker is where we see real value in Papua New Guinea’s own emerging talent. Kumuls livewire No.9 Edwin Ipape will be familiar ...