Premiership Rugby is an English professional rugby union competition. The Premiership consists of twelve clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby union system. Premiership clubs qualify for Europe's two main club competitions, the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup. The team finishing at the bottom of the Premiership each season is relegated to the second division, the RFU Championship; the winner of the Championship is promoted to the Premiership.
The Queensland Cup, known as the Intrust Super Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the highest-level regional rugby league football competition in Queensland, Australia. It is run by the Queensland Rugby League (QRL) and is contested by fourteen teams, twelve of which are based in Queensland, with one based in New South Wales and one in Papua New Guinea.
Robert Edward Brough is an Australian journalist, television presenter and rugby league coach.
Joel Moon is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a centre and five-eighth in the 2000s and 2010s. He last played for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League.
Eumundi is a small town and locality in the Sunshine Coast hinterland in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. Eumundi is very popular on the coast for its bi-weekly farmers' markets. The marketplace is full of locally-made produce, which has made Eumundi and the surrounding area a haven for small businesses.
Jordan Rankin is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who most recently played as a fullback or stand-off for the Castleford Tigers in the Betfred Super League. He was released from his contract on compassionate grounds on 25 May to allow him to return to Australia.
The Queensland Country Championships, also known as the Graincorp Country Championship, is a rugby union competition for teams from regions of Queensland outside of Brisbane. The Queensland Country Rugby Union administers the competitions at Senior and Colts levels. Eleven country sub-unions are grouped into three regional divisions in Northern, Central, and Southern Queensland for the championships.
The Sunshine Coast Rugby Union is the local rugby union competition on Australia's Sunshine Coast. Through Sunshine Coast Rugby Union Limited it serves as the governing body for rugby on the Sunshine Coast.
Francis Molo is a Cook Islands international rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL.
Queensland's Sunshine Coast has sporting teams across national, state, and local levels. Some Coast based clubs trace their history back to the early 20th century.
The 2020–21 CAF Champions League will be the 57th edition of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the 25th edition under the current CAF Champions League title.
The following details the year by year events for Sunshine Coast Football in Queensland, since the first recorded game on the North Coast in 1920.
The 2019–20 RFU Championship, known as the 2019–20 Greene King IPA Championship for sponsorship reasons, was the eleventh season of the RFU Championship, the professional second tier of rugby union in England. It featured eleven English teams and one from Jersey. The competition was sponsored by Greene King in the last year of their sponsorship deal which has sponsored the RFU Championship for six years.
Adam Starr is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played for the Balmain Tigers and Eastern Suburbs in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition, Australian Rugby League and NRL competitions.
Tino Fa'asuamaleaui is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row forward for the Melbourne Storm in the NRL. He will join the Gold Coast Titans in 2021.
The 2020 NRL season is the 113th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 23rd season run by the National Rugby League.
Super League XXV, known as the Betfred Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the 25th season of Super League and 126th season of rugby league in Great Britain. St Helens are the reigning champions going into Super League XXV. The team that finishes bottom will be relegated to the Championship. It consists of twelve professional rugby league teams: ten from England, one from France and, for the first time, one from Canada.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the most significant disruption to the worldwide sporting calendar since World War II. Across the world and to varying degrees, sports events have been cancelled or postponed. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were rescheduled to 2021. Spectators have no games to watch and players no games to play. Only a few countries, such as Turkmenistan, Belarus, and Nicaragua, have continued professional sporting matches as planned.
The 2020 Sunshine Coast Rugby Union season is the ongoing 38th season of the Sunshine Coast based rugby union competition, having been founded for the 1982 season. There will be 10 clubs competing in the league, six of whom will contest A grade.
The 1982 Sunshine Coast Rugby Union season was the first season of rugby union organized specifically in the area that is now the Sunshine Coast, Queensland since 1919.
