Cumbria rugby league team

Cumbria rugby league team
Team information
Governing bodyRugby Football League
Head coachPaul Crarey
CaptainRob Purdham
Home stadiumVaries
Uniforms
First colours
Team results
First game
Cumberland Cumbria 0–8 Yorkshire Yorkshire
(Parkside, Hunslet; 5 February 1898)
First international
Cumberland Cumbria 21–9  New Zealand
(Lonsdale Park, Workington; 8 January 1908)
Biggest win
Cumbria Cumbria 70–0  United States
(Craven Park, Barrow-in-Furness; 4 November 2007)
Biggest defeat
Cumbria Cumbria 12–64 Anzacs
(Derwent Park, Workington; 27 October 2004)

The Cumbria rugby league team (known as Cumberland from 1898 to 1973) is an English representative rugby league team consisting of players who were born in the county of Cumbria and the historic county of Cumberland. They play fixtures against international representative sides, often acting as opposition in warm-up fixtures for touring international sides.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Results". RLEF. 2007. Archived from the original on 28 December 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
  2. ^ "Cumbria let outright Victory slip away". Marras. 2004. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2010.