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Northern Rugby Football League

Rugby Football League
Rugby Football League logo
Founded 29 August 1895
Formerly named Northern Rugby Football Union (1895-1922)
RLIF affiliation 1948
RLEF affiliation 2003
Responsibility England England
Headquarters Leeds, United Kingdom
Key people Brian Barwick(Chair)
Nigel Wood (Chief Executive)
Competitions Super League
Championship
League 1
Rugby League Conference
Challenge Cup
League 1 Cup
World Club Series
World Club Challenge
Website therfl.co.uk
England
As of 30 June 2009
England
Badge of England team
Governing body Rugby Football League
Region Europe
Head coach Wayne Bennett
Captain Sean O'Loughlin
Most caps Kevin Sinfield (34)
Top try-scorer Ryan Hall (24)
Top point-scorer Kevin Sinfield (208)
RLIF ranking 3rd
First international
 England 9–3 Other Nationalities
(Wigan, England; 5 April 1904)
Biggest win
 United States 0–110 England 
(Orlando, Florida, USA; October 2000)
Biggest defeat
 Australia 52–4 England 
(Melbourne; 2 November 2008)
World Cup
Appearances 5 (first time in 1975)
Best result Runners-up, 1975; 1995
Great Britain
Crest of Great Britain team
Crest
Badge of Great Britain team
Badge
Nickname The Lions
Governing body Rugby Football League
Region Europe
Captain Jamie Peacock
Most caps Mick Sullivan (46)
Garry Schofield (46)
Top try-scorer Mick Sullivan (41)
Top point-scorer Neil Fox (228)
First international
 New Zealand 6–14 Great Britain 
(Headingley, Leeds, England, United Kingdom; 18 January 1908)
Biggest win
 Fiji 4–72 Great Britain 
(Suva, Fiji; October 1996)
Biggest defeat
 Australia 64–10 Great Britain 
(Sydney, Australia; July 2002)
World Cup
Appearances 9 (first time in 1954)
Best result Winners, 1954; 1960; 1972

The Rugby Football League is the governing body for professional rugby league in England. The name Rugby Football League previously also referred to the main league competition run by the organisation. This has since been supplanted by Super League, the Championship and League 1.

Based at Red Hall in Leeds, it administers the England national rugby league team, the Challenge Cup, Super League and the Rugby League Championships. The social and junior game is administered in association with the British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA). The Rugby Football League is a member of the Rugby League European Federation and as a senior Full Member has a combined veto power over the Council with France. The RFL is part of the Community Board, which also has representatives from BARLA, Combined Services, English Schools Rugby League and Student Rugby League.

Established as the Northern Rugby Football Union (often shortened to Northern Union) in August 1895 by representatives of twenty-one Rugby Football Union clubs at a meeting at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, it changed its name in 1922 to the Rugby Football League, mirroring its sister organisations overseas, the Australian Rugby Football League and New Zealand Rugby Football League. Eventually the "Northern" was dropped from its name at the beginning of the 1980s.


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