Denmark

Team information
Nickname	The Lions (Løverne)
Governing body	Dansk Rugby League
Region	Europe
Head coach	Nigel Kitching
Captain	Eugene Hanrahan
Home stadium	Parken Stadium
IRL ranking	53rd
Team results
First game
Denmark 26–28 Norway  (Copenhagen, Denmark; 22 August 2009)
Biggest win
Denmark 122–8 Sweden  (Gladsaxe Stadium, Copenhagen; 28 April 2012)
Biggest defeat
Malta 24–12 Denmark  (Victor Tedesco Stadium, Hamrun; 9 June 2012)[1]

The Denmark national rugby league team represents Denmark in the sport of rugby league. They are official observers of members of the Rugby League European Federation. Danish rugby league stats, news, team results and other information can be seen on Denmark's RLEF Page.^[2]

History

Denmark participated in rugby league in the late 2008. The national team lost their first match in 2009, 28–26 to Norway in Copenhagen.

They first won in 2011 in the Nordic Cup (Between Denmark, Norway and Sweden). In 2014, they beat Sweden and Norway to become the first team to win the Nordic Cup twice . They then became the first team to retain the Nordic Cup in 2015 after beating Sweden and Norway to win their third trophy.

The first domestic tie (actually including the Scania region of Sweden) was between København RLFK (precursor to Copenhagen RLFC) and Sweden Barbarians in 2012.

IRL Men's World Rankings v t e
Official rankings as of 21 December 2023
Rank	Change	Team	Pts %
1		Australia	100.00
2		New Zealand	91.00
3	1	England	74.00
4	1	Samoa	70.00
5		Tonga	54.00
6		Papua New Guinea	50.00
7		Fiji	49.00
8	1	France	24.00
9	1	Lebanon	24.00
10	3	Cook Islands	22.00
11	1	Serbia	19.00
12	6	Netherlands	17.00
13	1	Italy	15.00
14	5	Malta	15.00
15	1	Greece	14.00
16	4	Ireland	14.00
17	6	Wales	13.00
18	3	Jamaica	10.00
19	2	Scotland	9.00
20	8	Ukraine	7.00
21	6	Czech Republic	7.00
22	1	Germany	6.00
23	10	Philippines	6.00
24	5	Poland	6.00
25	1	South Africa	5.00
26	4	Chile	5.00
27	4	Kenya	0.00
28	6	Norway	4.00
29	6	Nigeria	4.00
30	6	Ghana	4.00
31	6	Brazil	4.00
32	12	Turkey	3.00
33	4	United States	3.00
34	1	Bulgaria	3.00
35	5	Cameroon	2.00
36	2	Montenegro	2.00
37	5	Spain	2.00
38	6	Japan	1.00
39		Albania	1.00
40	4	Colombia	1.00
41	6	El Salvador	1.00
42		North Macedonia	1.00
43	1	Morocco	1.00
44	3	Sweden	0.00
45		Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.00
46	3	Canada	0.00
47		Niue	0.00
48	9	Solomon Islands	0.00
49	1	Belgium	0.00
50	10	Hungary	0.00
51	5	Vanuatu	0.00
52	3	Argentina	0.00
53	3	Denmark	0.00
54	3	Latvia	0.00
55		Estonia	0.00
Complete rankings at INTRL.SPORT

Current squad

2014 Nordic Cup^[3]

• Josh Whitehead
• Morten Dam
• Emil Borggren
• Martin Pedersen-Scott
• Christoffer Ellebirke
• Justin Eyles
• Viiga Lima
• Jesper Ika
• Rich Groom
• Andrei Ungureanu
• Orveh Melchior
• Neil Smith
• Eugene Hanrahan
• Rob King
• Thor Thomsen
• Silas Mubanda
• Mark Bailey

All-time Results Record

Team	First Played	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	Points for	Points against	Last meeting
Norway	2009	7	4	0	3	184	150	2017
Sweden	2011	6	5	0	1	310	104	2016
Malta	2012	2	0	0	2	24	98	2012
TOTAL		15	9	0	6	518	352

Results

Domestic Teams

All of the Danish national team are selected from either Jutland RLFC (Jylland) and Copenhagen RLFC .

Other

Since 2013, the Denmark rugby league team have promoted the Cystic Fibrosis Forening, the national cystic fibrosis association of Denmark.