Rugby League is a full-contact team sport played with a spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen players.  There are also five adapted versions: - Mini/Modified, Tag, Touch, Wheelchair and 9-a-side.

Primary and secondary schools throughout Liverpool participate in annual rugby league festivals; organised by the Rugby Football League and local bodies e.g. LSSP, Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service, St Helens RLFC, Widnes Vikings RLFC, etc

Liverpool currently has one open-age team - Liverpool Buccaneers; who in 2006 won the regional final of the Rugby League Conference and now compete in the National Division.  A new junior club has been established in Croxteth and plan to enter the NWC 8-12's League in September 2008.

The city has a thriving student rugby league scene; with teams from all four universities entered in BUSA leagues.  Liverpool University took part in the first ever university game in 1968.
There had been a professional rugby league club in Liverpool since 1906 until the team relocated out of the city in 1985; however professional clubs still exist in the neighbouring towns of St Helens and Widnes.

Contacts

Liverpool Buccaneers    
Sefton RUFC     
Fornhead Lane    
Off Leyfield Road        
Liverpool
Mike Woods - 07859 941140

Liverpool Lions ARLFC
De La Salle High School
Carr Lane East 
Croxteth
Liverpool
Keith Lockhart - 07986 75 7466

For further information, please contact:
John Farrell (Rugby League Development Officer) - 0151 233 6392/07812 986795, email: john.farrell4@liverpool.gov.uk