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Its first football league was the B-League started in 2002. It was replaced ten years later in 2012, by the Brunei Super League. In
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, the most prominent competition is a six-date tournament, the Shell Rimula Challenge Trophy, won by Suncity Dragons in 2005. The Sultan's Cup is an invitational tournament for teams of East Asia. The
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club San Miguel won it in 2005. The Brunei Barracudas is a professional basketball team based in Brunei Darussalam and it was founded in 2009. Brunei is the host to one of the richest
marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair div ...
s in
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, offering more than $500,000 in prize money. Also, Brunei hosts the
Brunei Open The Brunei Open was an Asian Tour golf tournament. The 2005 staging was Brunei's first ever professional golf tournament, and it was won by Terry Pilkadaris of Australia. The event is held at the Jack Nicklaus-designed course at the Empire Hote ...
, a part of the Asian Golf Tour. Past winners include
Terry Pilkadaris Terry Peter Pilkadaris (born 30 October 1973) is an Australian professional golfer. Pilkadaris was born in Perth, Western Australia. He turned professional in 1998, joining the PGA Tour of Australasia. Since 2002 he has played on the Asian Tour ...
.
NHL The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...
player Craig Adams was born in
Seria Seria () is a town in Belait District, Brunei, about west from the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The total population was 3,625 in 2016. It was where oil was first struck in Brunei in 1929 and has since become a centre for the countr ...
, Brunei. The local martial arts in Brunei is called "Silat Suffian Bela Diri"
German site
Brunei Darussalam National Games ( ms, Sukan Kebangsaan Brunei Darussalam, SKBD), the nation's biennial multi-sport event, was established in 2012.


Rugby union

Rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
is also played in Brunei. The Brunei national rugby union is in the 6th division.


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