The Devonport Rugby Club is a Rugby Union team competing in the Tasmanian Rugby Union Statewide League.

They are the current Tasmanian Rugby Union Statewide Division Two Premiers and were promoted to the Statewide First Division for the 2008 season.

competing in the Tasmanian Rugby Union statewide League.

* Tasmanian Rugby Union – 1 delegate

* Tasmanian Rugby Union

The state bodies include the New South Wales Rugby League and Queensland Rugby League, as well as Northern Territory Rugby League, South Australian Rugby League, Tasmanian Rugby League, Victorian Rugby League and Western Australia Rugby League which have Affiliate state status.

Tasmanian State League football features five clubs from Hobart, and other leagues such as Southern Football League and the Old Scholars Football Association are also played each Winter.

Hockey Tasmania has a men's team ( the Tasmanian Tigers ) and a women's team ( the Van Demons ) competing in the Australian Hockey League.

The Devonport Football Club is an Australian Rules team competing in the Tasmanian Statewide League.

Devonport City Football Club is a football ( soccer ) club which represents Devonport in the Tasmanian Northern Premier League.

On 30 July 2008, the Tasmanian government announced that it had secured a major sponsor, Mars for a bid to enter the Australian Football League in a deal worth $ 4 million over 3 years and will temporarily change the name of its top-selling chocolate bar in Australia to Believe, to help promote Tasmania's cause.

* Tasmanian State League, the premier Australian rules football competition in Tasmania, a state of Australia

The city's team is the Burnie Dockers Football Club in the Tasmanian State League.

* Tasmanian Football League, an Australian rules football competition

He represents the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket, the Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League, and played in the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008.

* 1901: Zeehan conference leads to formation of Tasmanian Workers Political League ( forerunner to Labor Party )

In 1948 The Clarence Football Club, a tenant of the ground, applied to join the Tasmanian Football League, and the ground had to upgrade to TFL standards.

As well as being the home of domestic and international cricket and the Clarence Football Club in the now Tasmanian State League, Bellerive Oval served in 2003 as a home to the Tasmanian Devils in the VFL.

Cyborg and Red Tornado later travel to the moon alongside Doctor Light, Animal Man, Congorilla, Zauriel, Tasmanian Devil and Bulleteer as part of an emergency group of heroes gathered to assist the Justice League in their battle against Eclipso.

Later, he coached ( non-playing ) New Town to a number of Tasmanian Football League premierships.

Zauriel is recruited by Congorilla as part of a reserve Justice League consisting of Cyborg, Doctor Light, Red Tornado, Bulleteer, Animal Man, and Tasmanian Devil to help the JLA stop Eclipso.

During the ' 1990s, Tasmania had shown strong interest in joining the AFL and after rejected bids in 1995 and 1997 the Australian Football League instigated the formation a Tasmanian team for the newly re-constructed Victorian Football League.

* State-Wide League, an alternate name for the Tasmanian Football League

In England, Scotland and Northern Ireland it is traditional for the Premier League, Scottish Premier League and Irish Premier League respectively, as well as the lower divisions and rugby leagues, to hold a full programme of football and Rugby League matches on Boxing Day.

They have since evolved into the London Crusaders, the London Broncos, and then into Harlequins Rugby League.

* Fulham Rugby League Club, now London Broncos, played at Craven Cottage between 1980 and 1984, hosting their largest attendance.

Fulham Rugby League Club

Cheergirls from Australia's National Rugby League

* Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, an Australian National Rugby League team

* Cumberland ( rugby league team ), a team in the inaugural New South Wales Rugby League competition

:* Central Coast Division of Country Rugby League, an association operating junior rugby league

Compaq sponsored Bradford Bulls Rugby League club.

** Darwin Rugby League

* 1979 – Craig Wing, Australian Rugby League Player

Ireland's domestic Rugby League competition has been running since 1997.

Recent popularity has been increased with the Irish Wolfhound's success in the Rugby League World Cup which was held in Australia in 2008.

Edinburgh's professional rugby team, Edinburgh Rugby, play in the Magners League at Murrayfield.

Edinburgh Eagles are a rugby league team who play in the Rugby League Conference Scotland Division.

A Rugby League tackle during a NRL | National Rugby League Match Between the Manly Sea Eagles and the Cronulla Sharks

And also away from the world of Football there are a number of established fanzines, for example Rugby League has such notable publications as Who The Hell Was St. George Anyway?

( the world's longest-running Rugby League fanzine, by supporters of Doncaster RLFC ) and Scarlet Turkey of National League One club Salford City Reds.