The Papua New Guinea women's national rugby league team, also known as the PNG Orchids represents

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

Women's rugby league Women's rugby league is the female-only version of rugby league. The sport has growing more popular in Australia, France, Great Britain, and New Zealand. These countries regularly compete in the Women's Rugby League World Cup which has been i ...

. They are administered by the

Papua New Guinea Rugby Football League The Papua New Guinea Rugby Football League Inc. is the governing body for rugby league in Papua New Guinea. They are based in the capital Port Moresby. History They were founded in 1949 and have been members of the Rugby League International Fede ...

Head to head records

Notes: * Table last updated 10 November 2024. * Share is the portion of "For" points compared to the sum of "For" and "Against" points.

Coaches

The current Orchids head coach is Tahnee Norris. Note * Last updated 11 November 2024

Notable players

The following Papua New Guinea representatives have played in the

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* Elsie Albert (

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2020present, 16 matches, 3 tries as at 17 August 2023) * Therese Aiton (

2021 season, 2 matches) * Amelia Kuk (

Brisbane Broncos The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Red Hill, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos compete in the National Rugby League (NRL) and play their home games at ...

2018, 2 matches) * Ua Ravu (

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2023present) * Shellie Long (

North Queensland Cowboys The North Queensland Cowboys is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Townsville, the largest city in North Queensland. They compete in Australia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL). Sinc ...

2023present) * Sera Koroi (

2023present) * Jessikah Reeves (

2023present) * Essay Banu (

2023present)

Current squad

Head coach: Tahnee Norris The Orchids squad for the 2024 Pacific Championships was announced on 15 October 2024.
Table last updated 11 November 2024 and includes the Week 4 match against Samoa. Notes: * The Other Reps columns include matches: ** against the Australian Prime Minister's XIII ** against Far North Queensland,

, and

York Valkyrie York Valkyrie are the women's rugby league team of York RLFC (known as York City Knights from 2002 to 2022) based in York, England. The Valkyrie, who were established in 2016 as York City Knights Ladies, compete in the RFL Women's Super League ...

. ** for the Australian Prime Minister's XIII: Sareka Mooka. ** Australian Aboriginal Flag

for the Indigenous All Stars: Essay Banu and Sareka Mooka.

Results

Full internationals

Other international matches

Note: In all three of the above matches Papua New Guinea and Australia each fielded 20 players (13 on the field and 7 on the interchange bench).

Tour / trial / warm-up matches

Upcoming fixutres

In early June 2025, two fixtures for later that same month were revealed: * Papua New Guinea Orchids vs Australian Defence Force in Port Moresby on June 15. *

vs Papua New Guinea Orchids in Brisbane on June 22.

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References

External links

* {{International rugby league Papua New Guinea national rugby league team Women's national rugby league teams