Rugby League in other Languages
The sport we know as rugby league is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. For example, in Italy rugby league is called Rugby a 13, while rugby union is called Rugby a 15. Here are the names for rugby league in many of the languages of the world.
The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for rugby league in each of these languages. You will notice that many of the names appear to be phonetic spelling of rugby league in the other languages. See a similar list for rugby union.
Name by Language
| Language | Name for the sport of rugby league |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Rugby League |
| Arabic | دوري الرغبي |
| Asturian | Rugby League |
| Cantonese | 聯盟式欖球 |
| Catalan | Rugbi a 13 |
| Chinese | 聯盟式橄欖球 |
| Czech | Rugby league |
| Danish | Rugby League |
| Dutch | Rugby League |
| English | Rugby league |
| Esperanto | Rugbeo 13 |
| Finnish | Rugby league |
| French | Rugby à XIII |
| Galician | Rugby league |
| German | Rugby League |
| Greek | Ράγκμπι λιγκ |
| Hindi | रग्बी लीग |
| Hungarian | Ligarögbi |
| Indonesian | Liga rugbi |
| Italian | Rugby a 13 |
| Japanese | ラグビーリーグ |
| Korean | 럭비 리그 |
| Luxembourgish | Rugby League |
| Marathi | रग्बी लीग |
| Occitan | Rugbi de XIII |
| Persian | راگبی ۱۳ نفره |
| Polish | Rugby league |
| Portuguese | Rugby league |
| Russian | Регбилиг |
| Scots | Rugby league |
| Scottish Gaelic | Rugbaidh lìog |
| Serbian | Рагби лига |
| Serbo-Croatian | Рагби лига |
| Sinhalese | රග්බි ලීගය |
| Slovak | Rugby League |
| Spanish | Rugby league |
| Swedish | Rugby league |
| Turkish | Ragbi ligi |
| Ukrainian | Регбіліг |
| Venetian | Rugby a 13 |
| Welsh | Rygbi'r gynghrair |
| Wu | 联盟式橄榄球 |
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