Cameroon
Badge of Cameroon team
Team information
Governing bodyCameroon Rugby League XIII
RegionEurope
Head coachKhalil Njoya
IRL ranking35th
Team results
First international
 Cameroon 4 – 8 Morocco 
(Lagos, Nigeria; 2 October 2019)
Biggest defeat
 Nigeria 36 – 2 Cameroon 
(Accra, Ghana; 28 September 2022)

The Cameroon national rugby league team, known as the Indomitable Lions,[a] represent Cameroon in international rugby league football competition.

They made their debut in the 2019 Middle East Africa Championship in October 2019 with a 4-8 loss to Morocco[2] in Lagos, Nigeria, after travelling by bus for eight days to get there.[1]

As of September 2022 the Cameroon team is ranked 36th in the Rugby League International Federation world rankings.[3][1]

Background

Carol Manga (born c. 1988), who grew up in Yaounde, loved association football as a child, and started playing rugby union at the age of 14, going on to play in the national team at the age of 16. He has captained both rugby sevens and rugby union teams. He moved to Australia in 2008 to play rugby, and discovered and fell in love with rugby league, where he played in Cooma, New South Wales. He took the game back to Cameroon in 2012, helping to establish the Cameroon Rugby League XIII. Ten years later in September 2022, at the age of 34, he is once again in training, with the hope of playing in and possibly captaining the national league team.[1]

2019 squad

Squad for 2019 MEA Rugby League Championship, as of 20 September 2019:[4]

Results

  Win   Draw   Loss

Date Home Result Away Competition Venue Crowd
1 2 October 2019  Cameroon 4–8  Morocco 2019 MEA Championship Nigeria Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos
2 5 October 2019  Ghana 10–4  Cameroon Nigeria Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos
3 28 September 2022  Nigeria 36–2  Cameroon 2022 MEA Championship GhanaUniversity of Ghana stadium, Legon Accra
4 1 October 2022  Cameroon 0–16  Kenya

Footnotes

  1. ^ Most of the national sporting teams in Cameroon go by this name, including the Cameroon national football team.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Campton, Nick (5 September 2022). "The last hunt of Carol Manga, rugby league's indomitable lion of Cameroon". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  2. ^ "2nd MEA Rugby league Championship:Debutants Nigeria see off Ghana to set up Morocco final (audio)". Azu Emeh busybuddiesng.com. 3 October 2019. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  3. ^ "World Rankings". Rugby League International Federation. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Cameroon announce 22 man squad for MEA Championship". RLIF. 20 September 2019. Archived from the original on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
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