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'''Rugby league''' is a field [[sport]], thirteen-a-side team form of [[football]] played with an oval ball. It is played on a rectangular pitch. The sport has a common ancestor with football, [[CFL|Canadian Football]], and most clearly with [[rugby union]].

'''Rugby league''' is a field [[sport]], thirteen-a-side team form of [[football]] played with an oval ball. It is played on a rectangular pitch. The sport has a common ancestor with football, [[CFL|Canadian Football]], and most clearly with [[rugby union]].

The aim of the game is to score points with by touching the ball down in the in goal area (a try), or by kicking the ball over the crossbar and between the posts (goal).

The aim of the game is to score points by touching the ball down in the in goal area (a try), or by kicking the ball over the crossbar and between the posts (goal).

Rugby league takes its name from what was initially a breakaway faction of the [[English]] Rugby Football Union (RFU) known as the Northern Union in 1895, over the issue of payments for players,  and was played under the same rules as rugby union . When similar breakaway factions occurred from RFU-affiliated Rugby Unions in [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] in 1907 and 1908 they formed associations known as Rugby Leagues and introduced modified Northern Union rules. The Northern Union later changed its name to the Rugby Football League. Thus, the game became known as rugby league. Over the following decades the game's rules were gradually changed and now rugby league is a distinctly different sport.

Rugby league takes its name from what was initially a breakaway faction of the [[English]] Rugby Football Union (RFU) known as the Northern Union in 1895, over the issue of payments for players,  and was played under the same rules as rugby union . When similar breakaway factions occurred from RFU-affiliated Rugby Unions in [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] in 1907 and 1908 they formed associations known as Rugby Leagues and introduced modified Northern Union rules. The Northern Union later changed its name to the Rugby Football League. Thus, the game became known as rugby league. Over the following decades the game's rules were gradually changed and now rugby league is a distinctly different sport.