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CANTERBURY RUGBY LEAGUE RETURNS TO STANDALONE DISTRICT STATUS
For the purposes of playing in NZRL National Tournaments and Competitions, Canterbury Rugby League will return to standalone district status in 2024 after signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Southern Zone Rugby League. Canterbury has come under the Southern Zone banner – along with five other districts – since 2009,...
WHITEHEAD PLUMBING & GAS EXPANDS SPONSORSHIP TO BACK JUNIOR PROGRAMME AND MEN’S PREMIERSHIP
Whitehead Plumbing & Gas has become synonymous with junior rugby league in Canterbury, providing invaluable support for our game’s youngest participants. This year, the company has expanded its backing to include naming rights sponsorship of the region’s top club competition. The 2024 season heralds the sixth successive year of the...
RED AND BLACK REPORT 2024: EDITION NO.1
The Red and Black Report shines a spotlight on Canterbury Rugby League juniors featuring in Australia’s elite and lower-grade competitions. Several Canterbury products featured as the NSWRL’s junior competitions – the SG Ball Cup (under-19s), Harold Matthews Cup (under-17s) and Tarsha Gale Cup (women’s under-18s) – got underway on last...
TRILLO METALS WOMEN’S CANTERBURY BULLS WELCOME JOSEPH MIKA AS 2024-25 HEAD COACH
Following a highly promising NZRL National Premiership campaign last year, the Trillo Metals Women’s Canterbury Bulls’ 2024 progress will be guided by CRL Women’s Premiership-winning coach Joseph Mika. Mika, a former Canterbury Bulls rep and Linwood stalwart, coached the Keas’ women’s team in 2023 – culminating in their second straight...
WILSON TAKES REINS AS SENZ MEN’S CANTERBURY BULLS HEAD COACH
The SENZ Men's Canterbury Bulls enter a new era in 2024 following the announcement of former provincial representative and Halswell stalwart Walter Wilson as head coach. Wilson brings an impressive and varied coaching CV to the role: he guided the Halswell reserve grade team at the tail-end of his playing...
CRL’S FREE SWIMMING LESSONS INITIATIVE AIMS TO PROTECT LIVES THROUGH RUGBY LEAGUE
Canterbury Rugby League’s commitment to providing its community with valuable life skills outside of the rugby league sphere – as well as a desire to directly mitigate Aotearoa’s worrying preventable drowning figures – has prompted the establishment of a free swimming lessons programme for our tamariki from 2024. The programme...
CANTERBURY RUGBY LEAGUE EXTENDS ISC APPAREL PARTNERSHIP
Canterbury Rugby League is delighted to confirm an extension to its current agreement with leading sports apparel provider, ISC. The partnership sees ISC locked in as CRL’s official apparel supplier and sponsor for an additional two years, continuing a collaboration that began in 2019 until at least the end of...
CANTERBURY PRODUCTS SET TO SHINE IN NSWRL AND QRL JUNIOR COMPS
The opening rounds of the 2024 New South Wales Rugby League and Queensland Rugby League junior competitions are just weeks away – and an unprecedented number of Canterbury products are set to feature after joining, or returning to, clubs in Australia and Auckland. NSWRL’s Harold Matthews Cup (under-17s), SG Ball...
CANTERBURY’S ’93 HEROES REUNITE FOR SPECIAL MILESTONE
June marked 30 years since arguably Canterbury’s greatest-ever victory – the unforgettable thrashing of Auckland at the Addington Showgrounds in the 1993 provincial championship final – and the squad celebrated the milestone with a raucous reunion last weekend. With Mark Nixon, who skippered Canterbury to the famous win, the chief...
LAWRIE STANDS DOWN AS SENZ CANTERBURY BULLS COACH AS PANTHERS SWANSONG LOOMS
Canterbury Rugby League’s shift away from its provincial head coach coupling the role with the demands of club coaching duties has resulted in Jed Lawrie stepping down after two years as SENZ Canterbury Bulls’ coach. Lawrie, who is eyeing off his ninth straight – and likely last – season as...
BULLDOGS PROVIDE INVALUABLE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY FOR CANTERBURY’S PLAYERS AND COACHES
Ngā Puna Wai was a hotbed of rugby league education and development for five consecutive days last week as the most significant event of Canterbury Rugby League’s partnership with NRL club Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs to date unfolded. Led by Craig Wilson (Pathways and Development), Fifita Hala (Recruitment) and Adam Hartigan (General...
GREYHOUNDS SEAL 2024 CRL PREMIERSHIP SPOT VIA TIGERS PARTNERSHIP
Papanui Tigers and Greymouth Greyhounds have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see the clubs share players during the 2024-25 seasons, with the Greyhounds competing in the Canterbury Rugby League Men’s Premiership and the Tigers lining up in the Canterbury Cup Premier Reserves. The MoU, executed on November 20,...
