Tommy Butterfield (born 1988) is a Papua New Guinean professional

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 ...

footballer who played for the

PNG Hunters The Papua New Guinea Hunters (PNG Hunters) are a professional rugby league football club based in Papua New Guinea. They were formed in December 2013 and currently compete in the Queensland Rugby League, currently called the Hostplus Cup, a se ...

and

Brisbane Tigers The Brisbane Tigers are a rugby league club based at Langlands Park, in the suburb of Coorparoo in Brisbane, Australia. Since 1996, they have competed in the Queensland Cup, having competed in the Brisbane Rugby League from 1934 to 1997, where ...

as a in the

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.He is a

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 ...

international and was previously contracted to the

Brisbane Broncos The Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Football Club Ltd., commonly referred to as the Broncos, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos play in Australia's elite com ...

in the

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...

Early years

Butterfield attended

Redcliffe State High School Redcliffe State High School is an independent co-educational public high school based in Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia. The school initially opened in 1958 on the eastern side of Oxley Avenue, with sporting facilities on the land adjacent ...

and the

University of the Sunshine Coast The University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) is a public university based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. After opening with 524 students in 1996 as the Sunshine Coast University College, it was later renamed the University of the ...

Playing career

Butterfield was a

Redcliffe Dolphins The Redcliffe Dolphins are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Redcliffe, Queensland, Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1947, they were accepted into the Brisbane Rugby League premiership (rugby league competition), Brisba ...

junior and played for the Easts Tigers in the

. In 2012 he was approached by

Whitehaven Whitehaven is a town and port on the English north west coast and near to the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it lies by road south-west of Carlisle and to the north of Barrow-in-Furness. It is th ...

but the club failed to get Rugby Football League approval.Whitehaven sign PNG's Glen Nami and Jesse Joe Parker
''bbc.co.uk'', 22 February 2012

Representative career

Butterfield toured Europe with

in 2007.Butterfield dons PNG colours
''Redcliffe and Bayside Herald'', 30 September 2009 He was named in the Papua New Guinea training squad for the 2008 World Cup, but did not make the final squad. In 2009 he played for PNG against Australia's

Prime Minister's XIII Prime Minister's XIII, or sometimes informally referred to as the PM's XIII, is the name of a representative rugby league team, comprising Australian players from National Rugby League clubs that did not qualify for the NRL Finals, or whose tea ...

. In 2010 he played for Australian Universities Rugby League when they toured England and France.Butterfield among cream of crop in league
''usc.edu.au'', 19 October 2010

References

External links

Redcliffe Dolphins profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Butterfield, Tommy 1988 births Living people Eastern Suburbs Tigers players Papua New Guinea Hunters players Papua New Guinea national rugby league team players Papua New Guinean emigrants to Australia Papua New Guinean rugby league players People from Milne Bay Province Redcliffe Dolphins players Rugby league hookers University of the Sunshine Coast alumni