The aim of this Rugby League Project is to collect and present full details of every significant game of rugby league ever played. It is compiled on an entirely voluntary, part-time basis by three individuals: Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates, who love the game and love statistics. It also wouldn't be where it is today without the immense contributions of a number of individuals amongst the rugby league community.
It is also important to note that it is far from finished - hence the word "Project". While we have a number of collective goals on what we hope to achieve, there is no defined finish line. Our plan is to just keep on going! Here is a brief summary of what we've got so far:
- Comprehensive collection of international results, appearances and scorers
- A fast growing collection of Australian representative matches, including State of Origin (Men's and Women's), Interstate Matches, City vs Country, Bulimba Cup and more
- A full archive of NSWRFL/NSWRL/ARL/SL/NRL results including appearances, referees, scorers, and ladders from 1908
- A very fast growing archive of English league and cup results, with full league appearances, referees, scorers and crowd figures from 1980/81 onwards, as well as every scoreline from every cup and league game played since 1895/96
There is also plenty more information we are working towards adding:
- Every Full International ever played in both the Men's and Women's game
- Results from Queensland club competitions (BRL + QRL), plus results and competitions from NSW Country RL
- Full history of European Cup matches
- All English league and cup results, ladders, squads, scorers and appearances from all professional divisions dating back to 1895/96
- Lower grade results from the NSW and QLD Cups and even Reserve Grade games dating back to 1908
- Every NRLW and Women's Super League game ever played, in full detail
We now also produce our very own Rugby League yearbook, in conjunction with the League Unlimited website, which you can view or download for free.
Finally, we have a Patreon page where you can contribute to our efforts with a monthly donation. All help is immensely appreciated, and our active Patrons get early access to our yearbook a week before it's released to the public.
The Rugby League Project Team
Shawn Dollin
This site started out as a small idea I had in 2005 that quickly got out of hand, and was inspired by other great resources like Cricinfo and Paul Jeffs' RL Tables. While Rugby League Project was hardly an original idea, it has become a source of pride for me to be able to say I started something that the global rugby league community is able to benefit and enjoyment from in some way. I've continued to develop and evolve the site to face new challenges, but have always tried to remain true to the original intent, which is to provide accurate, detailed information that's easily accessible, fast and free for all.
However, it wouldn't be anywhere near the resource it has grown into without the support of the endless supply of passionate, dedicated rugby league fans around the world who kindly write to us every day (and have in the past been forced to wait months for me to get around to replying!), but not least of all Andrew Ferguson whose outstanding dedication to the cause has continued to provide me with new inspiration and drive to keep going no matter how unlikely the challenges we face might be.
Andrew Ferguson
Follow Andrew on Twitter (@andrewrlp)
I had been involved in a number of different roles providing statistical and historical data on Rugby League to other resources prior to my involvement with RLP. I was working on creating my own in-depth Rugby League book looking at compiling all Rugby League club records in Australia with in-depth details on Finals games, all rep matches (city v country and interstate games) as well as summaries of all tours and test matches played by all international sides. I had made it to season 1939 (I remember it well because of the 33-4 thrashing Balmain dished out to Souths in the final that year) when I opted to look for more information online and came across RLP.
In 2008, I contacted Shawn and informed him that I had plenty of info and would love to help him with the site. Shawn, being a smart man, realised someone was happy to enter in huge chunks of data for the fun of it and agreed to let me help him.
Tim Costello
Follow Tim on Twitter (@TimothyJ_23)
Tim is part of the League Unlimited team, and since coming onboard with us he has quickly established himself as the heartbeat of up-to-date results around the world. He also works with Andrew to produce the yearly annual publication. He is a maestro with the design, layout and publishing nouse to make all the words and numbers that get thrown at him into something that's an absolute pleasure to read.
Greg Fiveash
Follow Greg on Twitter (@RLProgrammeMan)
I've been passionate Rugby League fan for 40 years and a collector of the Big League programme, I first began collecting Big League in 1975 and religiously pick up a copy every week also collecting various books on Rugby League history through the years. In the early 2000s I decided to starting accumulating as many NSWRL programmes as I could and this has led to collecting huge amounts of data on Rugby League mainly the NSWRL. I have built up my programme collection to include every Rugby League News & Big League programme since 1925 so I'm still after anything prior to that including the match day card programmes and Rugby League News that started in 1920.
I first came across Rugby League Project in mid-2009 when Andrew contacted me about providing details of NSW v Qld matches that they were working on at the time I gave him all the info I could which mainly came from early EE Christensen Yearbooks. I had at that just time started compiling info to list all the teams for each NSWRL matched played, I now have all that info at hand and offered to help the guys out.
Bill Bates
Follow Bill on Twitter (@StattoMan)
Bill is a St Helens man who is also involved with one of our favourite organisations, the Saints Heritage Society. Bill has already provided us with thousands of results to date and is continuing to compile a fantastic archive of English club results (league and cup) for the site.
AJ Lucantonio
Follow AJ on Twitter (@AJLucantonio)
AJ is a keen stats man who has been actively helping us on the forums for years. More recently, he has been a huge help in compiling information on Australian cup competitions, particularly the AMCO/Tooth/KB/Panasonic cup. Since joining the RLP team as a devoted contributor, he has worked hard on helping flesh out our reserve grade archive, as well as assisting diligently with ongoing results week to week.
Roulette's Play
Follow Roulette on Twitter (@RoulettesPlay)
Rou is the incredibly talented graphic artist who pioneered our jersey template, and commenced the challenging task of creating the team jerseys you might have come across. This is a huge undertaking with plenty to do, but we already have a number of great looking jerseys thanks to her hard work:
Additional Major Contributors
Paul Carter
Paul is easily our most prolific contributor via the comments page. He tirelessly provides us with excellent information thanks to what is no doubt a very impressive archive of rugby league periodicals. He has literally provided us with thousands of corrections and additions, each of which are more valuable than the last.
Max Turner
Max has been a huge help to us in improving on the finer details of our information. With his assistance, much of our data is of higher quality.
Paul Jeffs
Paul is the founder of what has always been the go-to resource for Australian rugby league results, RL Tables. Without his site and immense individual contributions to Rugby League Project, the NSWRL section would be extremely threadbare.
Terry Williams
Terry was the curator at the NRL Museum for many years, a most thorough and enthusiastic historian, a brilliant researcher and story-teller, genenrous with his time and knowledge like no other. He was a regular guide for us, providing plenty of corrections and updates and involved us in much of what he did. He produced an amazing documentary about players who served in World War I which is available here: Headgear to Helmets, and also authored 2 books about the history of his beloved Newtown Jets.
Sadly he passed away in March 2026 and with it we lost a wonderful Rugby League historian and dear friend. We’d like to think that our website is a continuation of Terry’s passion and willingness to share the history of the game with everyone.
RedcapsBRL
This amazing website is fast nearing completion and is the greatest record of the Brisbane Rugby League competition. Even more tremendous is there willingness to share their data with us which in-turn is enabling us to work through that major competition at a solid rate. Please visit his tremendous website at www.redcapsbrl.org.
Brad Alonzo
Brad is the owner of www.18thman.com which is a free online resource recording results of junior Rugby League results in Australia. Brad generously shared his National Youth Competition database with us, allowing us to have the entire NYC history on the website, which when paired with the NSW Cup and QLD Cup database, allows you to see the full career trajectory of players at the elite level and the lower grades.
Alan Katzmann
Alan is an esteemed life member of the Sydney Roosters club, and after working tirelessly on the club's historical data, became the club's official historian. To his absolute credit, he has taken the extra time and effort to share his many findings with RLP, working to ensure that the information available to the public is as accurate and consistent as possible.
Derek Farrar
Derek is also an extremely eagle-eyed contributor and has provided us with hundreds of not only additional pieces of information, but also corrections which even the hardiest statisticians (including ourselves!) would miss, particularly related to English internationals. Sadly, Derek passed away in 2020. May he rest in peace.
Ian Golden
Follow Ian on Twitter (@Ian_Golden)
Ian is involved with Wales Rugby League and has done an incredible amount of work to get our Wales archive up to speed. He is not only a great contributor but also a great communicator, and made the arduous task of bringing our info on Wales to where it is today an absolute breeze.
Col Johnston
Col is a passionate devotee of the North Sydney Bears and strong campaigner for the Central Coast Bears, who are seeking admission into the NRL. He is a voluntary club Historian and Archivist for North Sydney.
Brian Keith
Brian is a very active contributor on our forums and has provided us with thousands of pieces of information, specialising particularly in British representative games and Great Britain tours.