With exactly six months to go until the Rugby League World Cup 2013 kicks off in England and Wales, England rugby league captain Kevin Sinfield has been unveiled as the first ‘Rugby League of The Extraordinary’ character ‘The General,’ in part of a new series to launch of the new England Rugby League website, www.englandrl.co.uk. read more
Rugby League World Cup 2013 organisers have announced that the BBC has secured rights to broadcast the tournament, showing live coverage of all England games on television and radio, starting with the Opening Ceremony featuring England v Australia. read more
The 2013 Rugby League World Cup, set to be staged in England and Wales, has signed a partnership with 4Sight Sport which will see the data marketing company become the official data agency of the event. read more
The Hertz Corporation has signed a new partnership with Rugby League World Cup 2013 to become the Official Vehicle Hire Supplier for the competition, to be hosted in England and Wales next year. read more
Foxy Bingo, the online bingo site, has signed a deal with the Rugby Football League (RFL) which will see the company become the competition's official bingo partner in 2013. read more
Super League clubs are facing combined debts of £68.5m, according to a BBC Inside Out investigation, with several teams failing to generate sufficient turnover. read more
The Rugby Football League (RFL) has announced Tetley’s as the new title sponsor of the world’s oldest Rugby League competition, the Challenge Cup. read more
Optimum Nutrition has agreed a new partnership with England Rugby League, which will see the sports nutrition brand become the team’s new official product supplier. read more
Rugby league club Wigan Warriors have announced a new two-year shirt sponsorship with Ainscough Crane Hire, which will see the Wigan-based company’s logo appear on the left shoulder of the club's home and away shirts until the end of the 2014 season. read more
The BBC has announced a new agreement with the Rugby Football League to broadcast all four matches of the triangular tournament between England, France and Wales this autumn. read more
Bradford Bulls has been saved from liquidation after a consortium, headed by Bradford restaurant owner Omar Khan, agreed a deal with administrators. read more
The Rugby Football League has confirmed it has received four unconditional bids for Super League side Bradford Bulls, with a deadline of 21st August now set for the bidders to present a business plan for the administration-hit club. read more
Super League's parent company has made an offer to purchase Bradford Bulls on behalf of the competition's 13 other clubs, after the Rugby Football League rejected two conditional bids for the club from the ABC consortium. read more
The Rugby Football League has rejected the second bid submitted by the ABC consortium for Bradford Bulls, after an original conditional bid was rejected last Thursday before the second bid was submitted the following day. read more
Rugby league’s Super League has announced it has reached a mutual agreement to end its title cash-free sponsorship deal with the Stobart Group at the end of this season, in a bid to sell the rights for the 2013 campaign. read more
The Rugby Football League has reported a record turnover of over £27 million for 2011, figures that allowed the governing body to post a pre-tax profit for the 10th consecutive year. read more
Leeds Building Society has announced an extension to its main sponsorship of Super League club Leeds Rhinos, in a new three-year deal that will see the Building Society logo continue to feature on the team’s playing shirts throughout the 2013, 2014 and 2015 rugby league seasons. read more
Bradford Bulls have made their entire coaching staff, including coach Mick Potter, redundant as the club tries to find a way out of administration. read more
Rugby league club Bradford Bulls have entered administration and, if a buyer is not found within ten days, face the possibility of extinction altogether - according to media reports. read more
Bradford Bulls could be forced to go into administration within a fortnight after being hit by a winding-up order over unpaid tax, according to media reports. read more
Former rugby league player Brian Juliff has been named as the new chairman of Wales Rugby League – having reportedly been made aware of the job opportunity through Twitter. read more
Richard Lewis, chairman of the Rugby Football League, has been appointed chief executive at Wimbledon, replacing Ian Ritchie, who left the All England Club in February after six years to become chief executive of the Rugby Football Union. read more
Sale Sharks have announced the club will move to the Salford City Stadium this summer in time for the 2012/13 Aviva Premiership Rugby season. The club will leave their home of the past nine seasons - Edgeley Park in Stockport - to share the brand new 12,000 capacity stadium with Salford City Reds Rugby League Club. read more
Rugby League World Cup 2013 has announced the group games and quarter final matches for the tournament being held in October and November next year. The tournament will begin at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff with the first day lineup kicking off with the opening ceremony, before host nation Wales take on Italy and co-hosts England face Austr… read more
The BBC has agreed a new contract to remain as the principal broadcaster for rugby league's Challenge Cup for the next five years, in a deal that will see the final of the knockout competition televised live on BBC One until 2016, as well as fourth and fifth-round games, quarter-finals and semis. read more
With 19 months to kick off, Rugby League World Cup 2013 has announced three new partnerships in major categories for the licensing programme, including ISC Sports - who has been appointed to provide the official line of supporters apparel for the tournament. read more
The RFL has renewed its partnership with AG Barr and its Irn Bru drinks brand, following on from recent landmark deals with title Eddie Stobart and Heinz Big Soup. read more
The new Super League season officially launches today at Old Trafford, with the announcement that Sky Sports will televise matches on Monday nights, as well as Fridays, throughout the summer. read more
Stobart Group has partnered with the Super League in a cross-marketing deal to secure title naming rights to Rugby League’s elite club competition, until the end of the 2014 season. The new agreement will see the competition become the Stobart Super League with the transport and distribution brand featuring prominently across all 14 clubs. read more
Saracens is set to work with Premiership title sponsors’ Aviva in the countdown to the London club’s derby match against Harlequins at Wembley on Saturday 31st March. read more
The Rugby Football League (RFL) has confirmed UK logistics company Stobart as the title sponsor of the Super League for 2012. read more
Castleford Tigers has announced that tax specialist company Probiz has extended and expanded its partnership with the professional rugby league team. read more
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