The Cameroon national rugby league team, known as the Indomitable Lions,[a] represent Cameroon in international rugby league football competition.
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| Team information | ||||||
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| Governing body | Cameroon Rugby League XIII | |||||
| Region | Europe | |||||
| Head coach | Khalil Njoya | |||||
| IRL ranking | 35th | |||||
| Team results | ||||||
| First international | ||||||
 Cameroon 4 – 8 Morocco  (Lagos, Nigeria; 2 October 2019) | ||||||
| Biggest defeat | ||||||
 Nigeria 36 – 2 Cameroon (Accra, Ghana; 28 September 2022) | ||||||
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[update] the Cameroon team is ranked 36th in the Rugby League International Federation world rankings.[3][1]
Background edit
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 edit
Squad for 2019 MEA Rugby League Championship, as of 20 September 2019:[4]
- Armel Damdja
- Bidjana Jean Claude
- Nguele Hermand
- Hamadou Moussa
- Nanga Yannick Olama
- Patrick Eugene Nkouak
- Lamere Mfochive Oudi
- Yannick Noah Simon
- Tientcheu Nguekam Manuel
- Moutcheu Jangue Raphael
- Yohan C. Kwedi
- Kallasi Nguiagueu Arnaud
- Embella Mouhamed
- Christian T. Pegou
- Bekolo Elie
- Watio Franck
- Fabrice Yepmo Joufang
- Fosso Ledoux
- Arnaud Ndjeng
- Akoa Akoa Jean Marc
- Ngoufack Geordane
- Kuate Talom Steve
Results edit
Win Draw Loss
| Date | Home | Result | Away | Competition | Venue | Crowd | |
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| 1 | 2 October 2019 | Cameroon
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4–8 | Morocco
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2019 MEA Championship | Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos
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| 2 | 5 October 2019 |  Ghana
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10–4 | Cameroon
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Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos
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| 3 | 28 September 2022 | Nigeria
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36–2 | Cameroon
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2022 MEA Championship | University of Ghana stadium, Legon Accra
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| 4 | 1 October 2022 | Cameroon
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0–16 |  Kenya
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Footnotes edit
- ^ Most of the national sporting teams in Cameroon go by this name, including the Cameroon national football team.[1]
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "World Rankings". Rugby League International Federation. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ^ "Cameroon announce 22 man squad for MEA Championship". RLIF. 20 September 2019. Archived from the original on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2019.