The Pathway RL
Pathways

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No layer is a promise. Staying in community club rugby league is a complete option, not a missed step. School sport and development programs run alongside club football rather than above it.

Route map · junior rugby leagueBranches run alongside, they are not rungs
  1. 01
    Community
    Open entry
  2. 02
    District
    Club membership
  3. 03
    Development
    EOI or invitation
  4. 04
    Junior rep
    Trial / selection
  5. 05
    Elite pathway
    Selection only
  6. Runs alongside
    School
    School trial
A junior rugby league team gathered in a huddle with their coach.
Where it starts

Every layer starts with a game on a Saturday.

Community club rugby league is the base of every route on this map. Nothing above it replaces it, and plenty of players stay there for their whole junior career.

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Layer by layer

Female rugby league players practising ball placement on a community field.
Pathway breadth

The pathway is wider than one route

Girls and boys pathways run side by side, and school sport sits alongside club and district rugby league rather than beneath it. Where a competition exists, we list who it is for and where the criteria were published.

Overhead view of a training ground with several groups of players and coaches working across marked lines.
Many groups, one field

Development runs in several directions at once.

Club training, school sport, district programs and representative trials often run in the same season. They sit alongside each other rather than in a single line, and none of them is a step that has to be taken.

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