Famous rugby league players
The most-searched rugby league players right now, with the latest news on each.
Reece Walsh
Reece Walsh is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL. He has also represented Queensland in the State of Origin series, and Australia in the 2025 Kangaroo tour of England.
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Nathan Cleary
Nathan Cleary is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who co-captains and plays as a halfback for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL. Widely considered one of the best players in the modern era, Cleary was halfback in five consecutive grand finals from 2020–2024. He was co-captain in four straight grand finals wins and received the Clive Churchill Medal as man of the match in the 2021 and 2023 grand finals.
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Adam Clune
Adam Clune is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a scrum-half for the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League. He was named as Giants captain for the 2026 Super League season
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Kalyn Ponga
Kalyn Jay Ponga is a professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a fullback for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League and Queensland in the State of Origin series. He is the recipient of the 2023 Dally M Medal.
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Casey McLean
Casey McLean is a New Zealand international rugby league footballer who plays as a centre or winger for the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League.
James Tedesco
James Tedesco, nicknamed "Teddy", is a professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a fullback for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League. A former Australia and New South Wales captain.
Bill Sorensen
William Sorensen was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand in the 1954, 1957 and 1960 World Cups.
Bradman Best
Bradman Best is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League (NRL).
Patrick Carrigan
Patrick Carrigan is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a ball-playing lock or prop for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League, with whom he won the 2025 NRL Grand Final. He also represents Australia at international level.
Kevin Sinfield
Sir Kevin Sinfield is an English rugby union coach who is the skills and kicking coach for the England national team. He is a former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Leeds Rhinos, England and Great Britain. He played as a loose forward or stand-off and occasionally as a hooker.
Cameron Smith (rugby league, born 1983)
Cameron Wayne Smith is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a hooker, spending his entire career with the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL). He has also been an assistant coach of the Queensland rugby league team under former Melbourne teammate Billy Slater since 2022.
Brent Kite
Brent Kite is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. A Tonga and Australia international, and New South Wales State of Origin representative front-row forward, he played club football for the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and Penrith Panthers. Kite was named the Clive Churchill Medallist for his performance in the 2008 NRL Grand Final, in which he helped steer Manly-Warringah to a 40–0 thumping of the Melbourne Storm,...
Tyson Frizell
Tyson Lomano David Frizell is a professional rugby league footballer who usually plays as a second-rower for the Newcastle Knights in the NRL. Frizell has the distinction of appearing for three different national teams. He represented Wales in the 2011 Four Nations and 2013 World Cup, then Australia between 2016 and 2019, including the 2017 World Cup, and most recently Tonga.
Isaah Yeo
Isaah Patrick Ferguson-Yeo is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who co-captains and plays as a lock forward for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL and captains New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia at international level.
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Latrell Mitchell
Latrell Mitchell is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League (NRL). He has also represented both New South Wales in the State of Origin series and Australia at international level as a centre.
Mitchell Moses
Mitchell Moses is a professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a halfback for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League, New South Wales in the State of Origin series and has played for Australia and captained Lebanon at international level.
Lehi Hopoate
Lehi Hopoate is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who plays as a winger or fullback for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League.
AJ Brimson
Alexander James "AJ" Brimson is an England international rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback, five-eighth and centre for the Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League (NRL).
Tanner Stowers-Smith
Tanner Stowers-Smith is a New Zealand rugby league footballer who plays as prop for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League.
Jack Gosiewski
Jack Gosiewski is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who last played as a second-row forward for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League (NRL).
Matt Burton
Matt Burton is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a five-eighth for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League.
Victor Radley
Victor Derrick Radley is an England international rugby league footballer who plays for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL. He won back-to-back NRL premierships with the Sydney Roosters in 2018 and 2019 and a third premiership in 2026. Radley is commonly dubbed as “Victor the Inflictor”, for his hard and effective tackling style.
Manase Fainu
Manase Fainu is a Tongan former international rugby league footballer who played as a hooker for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the NRL before he was convicted of a violent crime and sentenced to eight years in prison.
Daly Cherry-Evans
Daly Cherry-Evans is Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for Hull FC in the English Super League. Regarded as one of the best halfbacks in rugby league history, he is known for his game reading tactics, fitness, longevity and ability to kick match-winning field goals under pressure on either foot.
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