Pacific Championships Cup

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Results

Date R Hemma vs Borta -
11/04 04:00 1 Australien vs Nya Zeeland 0-30
10/28 09:10 1 Australien vs Nya Zeeland 36-18
10/21 05:00 1 Nya Zeeland vs Samoa 50-0
10/14 09:10 1 Australien vs Samoa 38-12

The Rugby League Pacific Championship is a rugby league tournament for national teams in Oceania. Its inaugural tournament was in 2019. Of the seven Oceanian teams, six compete across two divisions of three teams, while a rotating seventh goes on tour.

History

The tournament was created in 2019 with a two tiered format. The top tier (cup) consisted of Australia, New Zealand and Tonga and the second tier (shield) consisted of Fiji, Samoa and Papua New Guinea.

Australia won the Cup in the inaugural season while Fiji won the shield and got promoted for the 2020 competition.

For the 2020 edition, Cook Islands were scheduled to take Fiji's place in the shield. No team was relegated from the cup as Australia were going to go on a tour of England that year. The competition was scheduled to begin in June and conclude in November, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2023, International Rugby League announced the return of the tournament under the name Pacific Championships as part of a new seven years international calendar.

Pacific Championships Cup är en rugby league-turnering som hålls årligen mellan de tre högst rankade ländern i Stillahavsområdet: Australien, Nya Zeeland och Tonga. Turneringen har hållits sedan 2018 och är en del av World Rugby League Calendar. Den första upplagan av turneringen vanns av Nya Zeeland, som besegrade Australien i finalen. 2019 vann Australien turneringen efter att ha besegrat Tonga i finalen. Den tredje upplagan av turneringen kommer att hållas 2020 i Australien.