Cameroon | |
Badge: | Cameroon_rugby_league.png |
Governing Body: | Cameroon Rugby League XIII |
Region: | Europe |
Coach: | Khalil Njoya |
Rlif Rank: | 37 |
First International: | 4 – 8 (Lagos, Nigeria; 2 October 2019) |
Largest Loss: | 36 – 2 (Accra, Ghana; 28 September 2022) |
The Cameroon national rugby league team, known as the Indomitable Lions, represent Cameroon in international rugby league football competition.
They made their debut in the 2019 Middle East Africa Championship in October 2019 with a 4-8 loss to Morocco[1] in Lagos, Nigeria, after travelling by bus for eight days to get there.[2]
the Cameroon team is ranked 36th in the Rugby League International Federation world rankings.[3] [2]
Carol Manga (born), who grew up in Yaounde, loved association football as a child, and started playing rugby union at the age of 14, going on to play in the national team at the age of 16. He has captained both rugby sevens and rugby union teams. He moved to Australia in 2008 to play rugby, and discovered and fell in love with rugby league, where he played in Cooma, New South Wales. He took the game back to Cameroon in 2012, helping to establish the Cameroon Rugby League XIII. Ten years later in September 2022, at the age of 34, he is once again in training, with the hope of playing in and possibly captaining the national league team.[2]
Squad for 2019 MEA Rugby League Championship, as of 20 September 2019:[4]
Date | Home | Result | Away | Competition | Venue | Crowd | ||||
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1 | 2 October 2019 | bgcolor=#FFDDDD align=center | 4–8 | 2019 MEA Championship | Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos | |||||
2 | 5 October 2019 | bgcolor=#FFDDDD align=center | 10–4 | Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos | ||||||
3 | 28 September 2022 | bgcolor=#FFDDDD align=center | 36–2 | 2022 MEA Championship | University of Ghana stadium, Legon Accra | |||||
4 | 1 October 2022 | bgcolor=#FFDDDD align=center | 0–16 |