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rugby league

full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field
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Summary

rugby league is a sports discipline[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of sports discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16,465 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: rugby[3]
  • Commons category: Rugby league[4]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[5]
  • Inception: 1895[6]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1895[7]
  • Authority: Rugby League International Federation[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Rugby league[9]
  • Commons gallery: Rugby league[10]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Rugby league[11]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=rugby_league[12], rugby=league[13]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/RugbyLeague[14]
  • Different from: football[15], rugby union[16], Rugby[17]
  • Uses: rugby league ball[18]
  • Practiced by: rugby league player[19], rugby league coach[20], rugby league referee[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]

Why It Matters

rugby league has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

John Walker Rugby League Record Keepers Club Sonny Bill Williams United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q7344
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Rugby league
    Authority → Rugby League International Federation
    Uses → rugby league ball
    Instance of → sports discipline
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007546333105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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