Czech Republic national rugby league team
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| Governing body | Czech Rugby League Association | ||||||
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| Region | Europe | ||||||
| Head coach | Ladislav Cintler | ||||||
| Captain | Jarda Stribro | ||||||
| Most caps | Michal Priputen (10) Tomas Holovsky (10) |
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| RLIF ranking | 29th | ||||||
| First game | |||||||
 British Student Pioneers 29–8  Czech Republic(Prague, Czech Republic; 2006) |
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| Biggest win | |||||||
Czech Republic 30–4 Germany  (Olomouc, Czech Republic; 2009) |
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| Biggest defeat | |||||||
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Germany 96–0 Czech Republic (Hochspeyer, Germany; 2010) |
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The Czech Republic national rugby league team were established to broaden the skills of the rugby union team The team has competed in a number of competitions and hosted the Slavic Cup in 2006.
The Czech Association of Rugby League (CZARL) began life in early 2006, under the guidance of former Czech rugby union international Milan Mrtýnek and Englishman Iain Sellers.
The squad's first training session, in February 2006, was held in an indoor basketball hall because of an extremely fierce Czech winter. From these modest beginnings, the Czech team, with support from the Rugby League European Federation, struggled to play four full games in their debut season.
Perhaps inevitably, given the unfamiliarity of the game, the Czech Republic lost all four matches, and the margins of defeat were notn narrow. The Czechs played their first two games against the touring British Student Pioneers team. A 29–2 loss in Prague was followed by a less encouraging 34–2 defeat in Olomouc.
This was followed by the first away trip to Rotterdam to face the Netherlands Tasman team, where the newcomers were narrowly defeated 34–28. In their final game of the season, also in Prague, the Czechs were beaten 36–28 by Serbia, in the inaugural "Slavic Cup" match between the two countries.
In 2007 The Czech Republic played in the European Shield tournament against the Germans and Serbians. This saw them travel to Belgrade to play Serbia and Germany traveled to Prague. Both games were lost. The Serbia game doubles again as a Slavic Cup match. In 2008 the Czech team will once again compete in the European Shield along with Italy and Germany, with a domestic competition in u16, u18 and Senior level.
In 2011, the Czech Rugby League Association was admitted to affiliate membership of the Rugby League European Federation after reforming its governance.
2014 European Championship C
The following is a summary of tournaments and results for the Czech Republic National Rugby League Team.
The year 2006 saw the inaugural entrance of the Czech Rugby League team. Playing two games against the Dutch team Netherlands Tasman . This was a close and competitive match with against a team that is competing for a place in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. The Czech's eventually going down by a converted try 34–28. Also in 2006 was the establishing of the annual Slavic Cup tournament, contested by the Czech's and Serbia. Serbia were the inaugural winners 38–26 in what was also a close match.
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