page_title: Rugby League Federation Ghana
section_title: The Ghana National Rugby League Team and the Middle East Africa Rugby League Championships 2019
hierarchical_section_title: Rugby League Federation Ghana / The Ghana National Rugby League Team and the Middle East Africa Rugby League Championships 2019
caption_attribution_description: English: Ghana Rugby League National Team 2019
context_page_description: History & Inception of Rugby League in Ghana 2012 - 2014
  In 2011, The Rugby League European Federation selected Ghana as the pilot West African project, due to the RLEF’s partnership with UK Sport International and acquisition of a sponsor involved in professional Rugby League in England.
  In March 2012, the RLEF embarked on a fact-finding trip to Ghana. One of the objectives was to hire a member of staff to manage the project with Sylvester Wellington being engaged as a consultant and Development Manager in June 2012. In August of 2012, Sylvester Wellington was flown to England to receive coach and match official education and to generally be exposed to as much Rugby League as possible.
  November 2012 saw the RLEF, in tandem with the Rugby Football League deploy a three-man technical RFL employee delegation team of Martin Crick Andy Gilvary and Danny McNeice to Accra to deliver coach and MO training to locals as part of the wider development strategy to begin a club and schools’ competition. Over 50 attendees participated in the week-long event. A number of volunteers from Nigeria also attended the course as observers.
context_section_description: The Middle East Africa Rugby League Championships 2019
  In 2019, the Ghana National Rugby League team were selected to partake in the Middle East Africa Rugby League Championship to be hosted in Lagos Nigeria from October 3-6, the hosts being Nigeria Rugby League. After an initial training camp at the University of Ghana, a travelling squad of 20 players and 6 staff made their way to Nigeria on Tuesday 1 October. On Wednesday 2 October, the Ghana National team made history competing in their first ever sanctioned international test match V Nigeria. Nigeria, who went on to be crowned MEA Champions won that contest 24-10.
  
  On Saturday October 5, 2019, both Ghana and Cameroon’s National Rugby League teams again made history when they competed in the first sanctioned international between the 2 nations. Both Ghana and Cameroon were defeated by Nigeria and Morocco respectively in the first round of the Championships, continuing on to the Bronze medal match, Ghana securing victory in the last minutes of the game 10 – 4.  
  The final placing results of the 2019 MEA Championships for both Ghana and Cameroon resulted in neither team being eligible for the 2020 MEA Championships to be held in Pretoria, South Africa from October 13-17 2020. The 4 nations in attendance will be Nigeria (current champions), Morocco (runners up), South Africa (hosts) and Lebanon
  Ghana national rugby league team
caption: Ghana Rugby League National Team prior to their game V Cameroon at the MEA Championships, Lagos, Nigeria, October 2019
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