Current season or competition: 2024 PNGNRL season | |
Sport | Rugby league |
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Formerly known as | SP Cup (1990–2005) Bemobile Cup (2009–10) Digicel Cup (2011–2022) Digicel-ExxonMobil Cup (2023–present) |
Instituted | 2005 |
Inaugural season | 1990 (as SP Cup) |
Chair | Stanley Hondina |
Number of teams | 12 |
Country | Papua New Guinea |
Premiers | Enga Mioks (2023) |
Most titles | Rabaul Gurias (6 titles) |
The Papua New Guinea National Rugby League Competition (or the PNGNRL for short, for sponsorship reasons the PNGNRL Digicel-ExxonMobil Cup) is a semi-professional rugby league competition held annually in Papua New Guinea. Changes in sponsorship have meant it was Formerly known as the SP Inter-City Cup or SP Cup (1990–2008) and later the Bemobile Cup (2009–2010). The current competition is sponsored by pacific telecommunications giant Digicel and new co-naming rights sponsor ExxonMobil[1] (one of the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas companies) which joined in 2023 and so it is currently called the Digicel-ExxonMobil Cup.[2]