Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Professional rugby leagues worldwide
RevenueBase identified 190 professional rugby leagues worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 5,959 professional contacts across them, including 1,103 with verified work emails. The United Kingdom is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers professional rugby leagues worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for professional rugby leagues follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest professional rugby leagues worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 677 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The National Rugby League (NRL) is the world’s premier rugby league competition run by the Australian Rugby League Commission.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1861, we’re the oldest rugby union club in the Premiership, steeped in history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The South Sydney Rabbitohs were founded over 115 years ago and currently hold a record high 21 National Rugby League (NRL) premierships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A professional sports organisation with a men's squad that competes in the United Rugby Championship & the Champions Cup and a women's squad that competes in the Interprovincial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Queensland Rugby League (QRL) is the governing body for Queensland’s most popular game, rugby league, and the state's favourite elite team, the QLD Maroons.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Le Rugby Club Toulonnais est une équipe sportive professionnelle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league Club based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The St George Illawarra Dragons are a professional rugby league club who compete in the National Rugby League competition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) is the governing body for Rugby League in New South Wales and is a member of the Australian Rugby League Commission.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wigan Warriors are a professional Rugby League club based in the North West of England, who play in the Betfred Super League.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La Ligue nationale de rugby (LNR) a été crée le 24 juillet 1998.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Based at Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow Warriors are one of Scotland's two professional rugby clubs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Based in one of Northern Australia’s economic hot spots, the North Queensland Toyota Cowboys enjoy the largest footprint in the National Rugby League and are only one of a few…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional Rugby League Football Club based in Newcastle, New South Wales.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L’Union Sportive Romanaise et Péageoise et le ROC La Voulte Valence se sont rassemblés pour créer le VALENCE ROMANS DROME RUGBY.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Huddersfield Giants – the birthplace of rugby league and one of the world’s first rugby league teams, are a professional rugby league club playing in the Super League competition…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Debuting on the national stage in 2023, the Dolphins built on more than 75 years on history in grass roots rugby league and the Brisbane community to quickly become one of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A globally recognised brand, Bradford Bulls is a professional Rugby League club in Bradford, West Yorkshire and a founder member of the Rugby Football League (RFL).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Un club, une identité Le Stade Montois Rugby Professionnel Le Stade Montois respire le Rugby et se nourrit d’une culture ovale ancestrale ancrée dans la terre et dans son histoire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “New Zealand Rugby League is a not-for-profit national sports organisation charged with the growth, development and delivery of the game of rugby league in New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La Ligue Île-de-France de Rugby a pour objet d'encourager et de développer la pratique du jeu de rugby (rugby à XV, rugby à 7, rugby à 5, rugby santé, rugby adapté et toutes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: professional rugby leagues. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names professional rugby leagues.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of professional rugby leagues, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name professional rugby leagues. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Professional rugby leagues worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among professional rugby leagues, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for professional rugby leagues are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “professional rugby leagues”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names professional rugby leagues), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among professional rugby leagues, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,103 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Professional rugby leagues by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Professional rugby leagues list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names professional rugby leagues, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many professional rugby leagues are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 190 professional rugby leagues worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
National Rugby League, headquartered in Moore Park, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most professional rugby leagues?
The United Kingdom leads with 56 companies, followed by France (32) and Australia (31). Every professional rugby leagues list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most professional rugby leagues?
London leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (3) and Sydney (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,103 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 190 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.