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Rugby Premier League To Start On June 1 With Six Teams, 30 Foreign Players
Rugby Premier League: Some of the top names in Rugby 7s like Perry Baker of the United States, a two-time World Rugby 7s Player of the Year and three-time Olympian and South Africa's Rosko Speckman, a two-time Olympic bronze medal winner, will be along the 30 marquee players that will grace the six franchises of the inaugural Rugby Premier League (RPL), which will be played in Mumbai from June 1 to 15, 2025.
To be held at the Mumbai Football Arena in suburban Andheri, the world's first city-based franchise rugby league will have the same number of top Indian players rubbing shoulders with the international starts in the unique rugby 7s format, the action-packed fast-paced version of the sport considered as the T20 of rugby.
Rugby India is bringing out this league in collaboration with GMR Sports and has received approval and cooperation from World Rugby, the sports global governing body that has created a special window for Rugby Premier League towards the end of the international season, making it possible for the top talent in the sport to take up contracts in India.
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