The Rugby League Victory Cup is a
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 ...
tournament held in
Russia
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between its national team and those of France, the USA, and a British amateur side.
Officially it is organized and funded by the Russian Rugby Football League (RRFL); unofficially, the 2003 and 2004 tournaments were largely run by the RRFL's then president, Akhmet Kamaldinov, who had more to do with the organization and especially the funding than any other person employed by the RRFL.
The Tournament was initially dedicated to the anniversary of the "Victory" of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. All teams competing in the first two competitions were allies during the war.
With Kamaldinov departing as president of the RRFL in early 2005, the Victory Cup underwent some major adjustments. The tournament is to be held as a
sevens tournament and has been renamed to the Victory Sevens. It was hoped that the tournament would be named the
World Sevens
The SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for Naming rights, sponsorship reasons, is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as ...
since the demise of that competition just a year or two ago. Those plans seem to have fallen through.
See also
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List of rugby league competitions The following is a list of rugby league competitions that are still currently in existence. This includes both international tournaments played by national Test teams and also domestic club and provincial competitions. Throughout the list bold indic ...
References
External links
News Archive Dating Back to the VCs Inception- World of Rugby League
European rugby league competitions
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