Brazil

Rugby League will welcome participation from a professional team in Latin America for the first time, with news that Melina will contest the Brazilian women’s national championships in São Lourenço this weekend. Founded by...

Photo Credit: Davey Wilson The first America’s Rugby League steering committee meeting has taken place, with the group tasked to establish an agreed road map for the region to become a confederation in its...

Photo Credit: Carolyn Ritchie In the lead up to Christmas, RugbyLeaguePlanet ran a poll on Twitter to gauge our readers’ thoughts on whether or not the rugby league Americas Championship should be expanded, and...

Growing the game in Latin America Since the 2017 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC) there has been an international push to grow the game of rugby league on a wider scale, and in many...

Photo Credit: Carolyn Ritchie All four Americas nations that took part in the Rugby League European Confederation (RLEF) annual congress meeting are in lockstep over the need for the creation of a new...

YOU could forgive former Super League player Matt Gardner for rolling his eyes whenever questions of his Anglicised named and international allegiance are raised.

The Rugby League World Cup trophy arrived in Brasil (December 5), for an action-packed five days in Sao Paulo – the first time the prized silverware has visited Latin America.

WHAT started as a throwaway comment on Queensland’s rural Darling Downs has started to spread around the world.

Rugby League might be new to Brazil but there is no denying that the code is starting to make a splash in a country where football rules.

Date: 2/10/18

The Brazilian Rugby League Confederation will hold a Rugby League Festival, the largest Rugby League Festival in Latin America of all time, on November 24th and 25th in São Paulo, SP.