The Kroton Hela Wigmen is a semi professional
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
n
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
team from
Hela Province
Hela is a province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Tari. The province covers an area of 10,498 km², and there are 249,449 inhabitants (2011 census figures). Hela province officially came into being on 17 May 2012, comprising t ...
. They currently compete in the
Papua New Guinea National Rugby League
The Papua New Guinea National Rugby League Competition (or the PNGNRL for short, for sponsorship reasons the PNGNRL Digicel Cup) is a semi-professional rugby league competition held annually in Papua New Guinea. Changes in Sponorship have meant ...
Competition. They have been playing their home games in Port Moresby while waiting for their new stadium to be completed in 2022, the New stadium will be based in the Hela Province capital of
Tari.
In 2014, they won the Digicel Cup, beating the Agmark Gurias 34-8 in the grand final in Lae. They won their second premiership title in 2020.
2022 squad
Honours
League
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PNGNRL Digicel Cup
::Winners (2): 2014, 2020,
::Runners up (1): 2019,
See also
References
{{Rugby League in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinean rugby league teams
Hela Province