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Current season, competition or edition: 2023-24 NRL season | |
Sport | Ringette |
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Founded | 2002 |
First season | 2004 |
Divisions | Western Conference, Eastern Conference Red, Eastern Conference White |
No. of teams | 13 |
Country | Canada |
Most recent champion(s) |
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Most titles | Cambridge Turbos (6 times) |
Official website | www |
The National Ringette League (NRL) (French: Ligue Nationale de Ringuette, LNR) is the premier league for the sport of ringette in North America and Canada's national league for elite ringette players aged 18 and up. The NRL is not a women's variant of a more well-known men's league or sport like professional women's ice hockey or bandy; one of ringette's distinctive features is that all of its players are girls and women. As such, the NRL is the continent's first and only winter team sports league whose entire athlete roster is made up of women and non-binary athletes.
The NRL is semi-professional and operates as a showcase league for ringette in North America. The league functions as a committee under Ringette Canada, a non-profit sports organization and Canada's national governing body for ringette. Its Finnish equivalent is the SM Ringette league in Finland.