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2021 Men's Rugby League World Cup Squads
The 2021 Men's Rugby League World Cup featured 16 international teams, with each consisting of up to a 24-man squad. Group A England Head coach: Shaun Wane England announced their 24-man squad on 30 September 2022. Debut call-ups were handed to Andy Ackers, Herbie Farnworth, Kai Pearce-Paul, Victor Radley, Marc Sneyd and Dom Young. France Head coach: Laurent Frayssinous France announced their 24-man squad on 24 September 2022. Experienced players Théo Fages, Julian Bousquet, and Romain Navarrete were all unavailable due to injuries, as was Lucas Albert. Samisoni Langi qualified via 5-years residency in 2022 and made himself available for France rather than , who he represented at the previous two tournaments (although did not play a match in 2017). Greece Head coach: Steve Georgallis Greece announced their 24-man squad on 15 September 2022. The squad includes players from the professional competitions and from the Greek domestic competition. Billy Tsikri ...
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2021 Men's Rugby League World Cup
The 2021 Men's Rugby League World Cup was the 16th Rugby League World Cup, and one of three major tournaments of the 2021 Rugby League World Cup. The tournament was held in England from 15 October 2022 to 19 November 2022. It was originally due to be held between 23 October 2021 and 27 November 2021, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent withdrawals of Australia national rugby league team, Australia and New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand caused the tournament to be postponed. 16 teams competed in the tournament, an increase of two from the previous two tournaments and the first to feature 16 teams since the 2000 Rugby League World Cup. For the first time, the Rugby League World Cup was run alongside the 2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup, women's and 2021 Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup, wheelchair tournaments with all participants being paid the same, while all 61 matches in the three tournaments were broadcast live. Australia beat Samoa national rug ...
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Sydney Roosters
Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club, known as the Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs. The club competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. The Roosters have won fifteen New South Wales Rugby League premiership, New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) and National Rugby League titles, and several other competitions. First founded as the Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club (ESDRLFC), it is the only club to have played in every season at the elite level. The Sydney Roosters have won 15 premierships, equal to the record of the St George Dragons. Only the South Sydney Rabbitohs have won more premierships. The club holds the record for having won more matches than any other in the league, the most minor premierships and the most World Club Challenge trophies. Currently coached by Trent Robinson and captained by James Tedesco, the Roosters play hom ...
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Featherstone Rovers
Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England. The club play home games at Post Office Road and currently compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league. Featherstone Rovers have won the League Championship once and Challenge Cup three times. Their local rivals are Castleford and Wakefield Trinity, and in the Championship, Halifax. The clubs traditional home colours are white with blue hoops. History 1889–1902: Origins Featherstone Trinity RUFC were formed in 1889. Featherstone Trinity played their first game on the New Inn fields against Castleford Mill Lane Rovers. The following season in 1890, Featherstone went 19 games without defeat. They dropped the Trinity to become simply Featherstone RUFC in 1894. Featherstone voted to join the Northern Union in 1898 and became the town's first rugby league team. Featherstone played in the following competitions the Charlesworth Cup (1889 to 1905), the Du ...
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Halifax Panthers
The Halifax Panthers are a professional rugby league club in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. They play home games at The Shay and compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league. Halifax Panthers have won the League Championship four times and the Challenge Cup five times. They have rivalries with neighbours Bradford of the Championship, Huddersfield of Super League, fellow Championship side Featherstone Rovers, and Pennines rivals Oldham and Rochdale. The club's traditional home colours are blue and white hoops, white shorts, and blue and white socks. History 1873–1939: early years The club was founded as Halifax in 1873 when a group of young men from the Halifax Rifle Volunteers put an advert in the local press to invite anyone interested in "football" to a meeting at the Upper George Hotel. A year later, Halifax played their first inter-club rugby football game when they played Leeds Athletic Club in a match held at Woodhouse Moor in Leeds on ...
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Toulouse Olympique
Toulouse Olympique or TO XIII is a professional rugby league club in Toulouse, south-west France. Founded in 1937, two years after the French Rugby League Federation, the club is a six-time winner of the French Rugby League Championship. The club played in the Rugby Football League's Championship (rugby league), Championship competition in 2009, 2010 and 2011. It left the English structure at the end of the 2011 season and instead focused on the Elite One Championship from 2011/12 season. In 2016 Olympique again joined the RFL system, this time in League 1 (rugby league), League 1, the third tier of English rugby league, being promoted to the Championship (rugby league), Championship at the end of that season. In 2012, Toulouse acquired fellow Toulouse side, Toulouse Jules-Julien Broncos XIII to act as their reserve side in Elite 2 (rugby league), Elite 2. The side was re-branded as Toulouse Olympique Broncos and moved up to Elite 1 when Olympique re-joined the English competition ...
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Samisoni Langi
Samisoni Langi (born 11 June 1993) is a professional rugby league footballer who last played as a and for Wakefield Trinity in the Super League. Langi previously played for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL, and for the Leigh Centurions and the Catalans Dragons in the Super League, signing from the Penrith Panthers in June 2017. He has played for both Tonga and France at international level. He played as a earlier in his career. Early life Langi was born in Auburn, New South Wales, Australia and is of Tongan descent. He played his junior rugby league for the Berala Bears. While attending Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, he was selected to play for the NSW Combined Catholic Colleges Schoolboys and the Australian Schoolboys teams, both in 2011. Playing career Sydney Roosters Langi played for Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Youth Competition before being signed by the Sydney Roosters. On 20 April 2013, Langi made his international debut for Tonga in their Pacifi ...
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Lucas Albert
Lucas Albert (born 4 July 1998) is a French rugby league footballer who plays as a or for AS Carcassonne in the Elite One Championship and France at international level. Albert has previously played for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League, and spent time from Catalans on loan at Saint-Esteve in the Elite One Championship. He has also played for AS Carcassonne in the Elite One Championship. Background Albert was born in Carcassonne, France. Club career Catalans Dragons Albert debuted for the Catalans Dragons against the Widnes Vikings in July 2015. AS Carcassonne On 17 Nov 2020 it was reported that he had signed for AS Carcassonne in the Elite One Championship. Toulouse Olympique On 28 April 2021, it was announced that Albert would join Toulouse Olympique in the Championship for the remainder of the 2021 season. Due to an injury sustained playing for Carcassonne, Albert did not join Toulouse until July. He made his debut in the final match of the regular season in the ...
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Romain Navarrete
Romain Navarrete (born 30 June 1994) is a French rugby league footballer who plays as a for Catalans Dragons in the Super League and France national rugby league team, France at international level. He previously played for SM Pia XIII and the Limoux Grizzlies in the Elite One Championship, and the Hemel Stags in 2014 Championship 1, Championship 1. Navaratte played for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League. He has also played for the Wigan Warriors in the Super League, top flight and has spent time on loan from Wigan Warriors, Wigan at the Swinton Lions in the RFL Championship, Championship, and Catalans Dragons, Catalans and Wakefield Trinity in the Super League. Navarette has also played for the London Broncos in the RFL Championship, Championship Club career Early career Navarrete began his career at SM Pia XIII, moving to Limoux when Pia left the Elite One Championship. In 2014 he joined Hemel Stags in League 1 (rugby league), League 1, making 6 appearances for the club ...
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Julian Bousquet
Julian Bousquet (born 8 July 1991) is a French professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League and at international level for France. He previously played in the Elite One Championship for the Lézignan Sangliers. Background Bousquet was born in Fabrezan, Occitanie, France. Club career Bousquet began his career at Lézignan Sangliers. He moved to Catalans Dragons and made his debut in 2012. In early 2013 he was involved in a controversial incident during a match against Salford when he knocked Théo Fages unconscious with an illegal challenge, receiving a red card and subsequently being banned for four matches. On 30 May 2015, Bousquet signed an extension to his Catalans contract. He played in the 2018 Challenge Cup Final victory over the Warrington Wolves at Wembley Stadium. On 9 October 2021, Bousquet played for Catalans in their 2021 Super League Grand Final defeat against St. Helens. On 14 October 2023, Bousquet played ...
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Théo Fages
Théodore Pascal Fages (born 23 August 1994) is a French professional rugby league footballer who plays as a and for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League and France at international level. He previously played for the Salford Red Devils, St Helens and the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League. He played as a earlier in his career. Background He is the son of former French international Pascal Fages who appeared for France in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup. Théo replicated his father's achievements in playing for France at a World Cup when he captained his nation at the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. Club career Salford Red Devils Fages joined Salford as a 16-year-old, progressing through the club's academy system. He made his Super League début for Salford in the first match of the 2013's Super League XVIII in a defeat by Wigan Warriors; the following week he played against Catalans Dragons and was knocked unconscious in the opening minutes of the match by Julian B ...
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Laurent Frayssinous
Laurent Frayssinous (born 7 May 1977) is a French professional rugby league coach who is the head coach of and former professional rugby league footballer. He played for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League and France at international level. He coached Les Catalans in the Super League. He was due to take control of the Ottawa Aces before the club withdrew from the English pyramid. Playing career He represented France in the halves in the 2000 World Cup. Whilst playing for Villeneuve Leopards Frayssinous was selected to play at for France on the 2001 France tour of New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. He also played in a match against the touring Australian Kangaroos at the end of the 2005 season, scoring a try and kicking two goals. Frayssinous played for Catalans Dragons when they reached the quarter-finals of the 2006 Challenge Cup. Coaching career Catalans Dragons At the end of the 2012 season, Laurent Frayssinous was appointed head coach of the Catalans Dragons on a t ...
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Newcastle Knights
The Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league team based in Newcastle, New South Wales that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. Playing in red and blue, the Knights joined the top-tier competition in New South Wales Rugby League season 1988, 1988, 79 years after the previous Newcastle based team, the Newcastle Rebels had departed the Sydney competition with the formation of a Newcastle Rugby League, separate league competition based in the Newcastle region. The club has won the premiership twice (1997 and 2001) and is one of only two clubs (the other being the Wests Tigers) that has never lost a grand final in which it has participated. Notable players include: Paul Harragon, Robbie O'Davis, Danny Buderus and The Immortals (rugby league), rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns. The team's home ground is Newcastle International Sports Centre, McDonald Jones Stadium. History A Newcastle rugby league team had been assembled from players in the ...
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