Cumberland rugby league team
| Governing body | Rugby Football League |
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| Head coach | Paul Crarey |
| Captain | Rob Purdham |
| Home stadium | Varies |
| First game | |
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Cumberland 0–8 Yorkshire (Parkside, Hunslet; 5 February 1898) |
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| First international | |
Cumberland 21–9  New Zealand(Lonsdale Park, Workington; 8 January 1908) |
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| Biggest win | |
Cumbria 70–0  United States(Craven Park, Barrow-in-Furness; 4 November 2007) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
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Cumbria 12–64 Anzacs (Derwent Park, Workington; 27 October 2004) |
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The Cumbria rugby league team (known as Cumberland from 1898-1973) is an English representative rugby league team consisting of players who were born in the county of Cumbria and the historic county of Cumberland. They play fixtures against international representative sides, often acting as opposition in warm-up fixtures for touring international sides.
The Cumbrian side features professional players from the European Super League, the Co-operative Championship, Championship 1 and the amateur game.
Cumbria are coached by Paul Crarey, with assistant coaches Gary Charlton of Workington Town and Whitehaven's David Seeds.
Cumbria played the touring Australian Kangaroos during 14 Kangaroo Tours, including 1908-09 (twice), 1911-12, 1921-22, 1929–30, 1933–34, 1948–49, 1963-64, 1967-68, 1973, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1994, as well as playing the Australians as part of their 1992 Rugby League World Cup Final tour. They also played New Zealand in 1907–08, 1926–27 and 1980.
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