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Pick the 17.
Call the plays.
Wear the result.

The management game rugby league never got. Twenty clubs, the Perth Bears and PNG Chiefs among them. Run a comp with your mates and watch every match play out live.

  • 20 clubs
  • Leagues with mates
  • Live 2D matches
  • No download

Founding coaches: the first 20 on the list play free for life.

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HOME 0–0 AWAY
The same live match on a phone, with commentary and interchange controls
00:00 Kick-off coming up…

Live. The real game engine is simulating this match in your browser right now. Not a video. Every visitor gets a different game.

Why it's different

The nearly NRL. Twenty clubs.

Every club of the 2027 season, plus the PNG Chiefs a year before they run out and the Pasifika Wayfinders, a side the game should already have. 150 players by name and a $15.6 million cap to fit your squad under. Squads are being brought up to date for 2027, and you can rename anyone in the meantime.

Your mates. One comp.

Hand out clubs by username. Everyone presses Ready, the round plays, the ladder moves. The AI coaches the rest.

Watch it. Then change it.

Every match plays out top-down in 2D. In a solo career or a versus match, swap your bench and shift your tactics while it's live.

Have a look around

This is the game. Not a mock-up.

The Match Centre: a top-down 2D field with both sides, live commentary, territory maps and match stats
Match Centre. Watch it play, read the commentary, swap your bench while it's live.
The club hub: next fixture, board confidence, squad fitness, tactics summary and cap space
The hub. Your week at a glance, and a board that's keeping score.
Team sheet and tactics: 17 jerseys with ratings, and seven tactical dials
Team sheet and tactics. Seven dials, every one of them with a cost.
Squad list with overall ratings, positions, fitness, form, wages and contract lengths
The squad. Ratings, form, wages and contract lengths. Fit them under the cap.
The hub on a phone A live match on a phone

Same game. In your pocket.

Open the link on your phone and add it to the home screen. It launches like an app. Your leagues follow you to any device; a solo career saves on the device you play it on, and you can export it to move it.

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The pitch

Football got forty years of management games. Rugby league got the group chat.

You already coach every weekend. Who should've been picked. When to take the two. Which young player deserves a chance. Rugby League Director hands you the whistle.

It's a real simulation, not a dice roll. The players you pick, the shape you set and the calls you make decide what happens on the field, and you'll work out the rest the way every coach does: by watching. Your mates can watch exactly what you watched and argue about it properly.

Opens from a link. Installs to your home screen. A round takes minutes. The season takes all winter.

  • 20clubs
  • 150named players
  • 7tactical dials
  • $15.6msalary cap
  • 3ways to play
  • Full draw with byes, the finals series and the Grand Final
  • Six-agains, 40/20s, sin bins, field goals, golden point
  • Injuries and HIA, interchanges, fatigue that bites in the last twenty
  • Contracts, wages and player development across seasons
  • A board that sets a target and sacks you if you miss it
  • Dally M votes every round and the Clive Churchill Medal
  • Exact replays of the latest round in your league
  • Versus: two coaches, one live match, both screens in sync

How the alpha works

Three steps to your first round.

  1. Join the list

    Email, your club, done. Share your link so your mates queue up next to you.

  2. Get your invite

    We let coaches in a few at a time so the server stays quick. You get a link and a sign-up code.

  3. Start the comp

    Create your account, then start a solo career or a league and hand out the clubs.

Next up, shaped by tester feedback: a Super League edition, women's competitions (NRLW and the Women's Super League), Nines and a sevens format, international sides for versus, trades between clubs, and training and youth you steer.

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Rugby League World Cup 2026

The world is on the field this month. Soon you can coach it.

The final is at Suncorp Stadium on 15 November. International sides for versus and representative weekends are next on our roadmap.

  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Tonga
  • Samoa

Northern hemisphere

Super League is next. Your club decides how soon.

Fourteen clubs, 27 rounds, the play-offs and a Grand Final. The Super League edition is in development, and the build order follows the list: pick your club when you join and it moves up. Then the one nobody has built: your Wigan against a mate's Penrith, live, in a World Club Challenge of your own.

  • 14Super League clubs
  • 2hemispheres, one coach ranking
  • 1link, any phone, no download

Questions

What does it cost?

Nothing during the alpha. The first 20 people on the waitlist are founding coaches and keep free access for life (the terms spell it out). Everyone else who tests will be looked after when there's something to pay for.

What do I need to play?

Any modern browser on a phone, tablet or computer. No app store. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app.

Do I need an account?

Not for a solo career. Leagues and versus need a username and password so your mates can find you. That's all we ask for.

Is this an official NRL game?

No. It's an independent project by rugby league fans, not affiliated with or endorsed by the NRL or any club. We're working toward licensing so the real names can stay.

What happens to my email?

Your invite, and nothing else unless you ask for updates. Never shared. Reply to any email from us to come off the list.

Your club. Your 17. Your call.

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Press and investors

Covering the game, or backing games?

Pick Press or Investor when you join and you'll hear from us personally, with early access and the alpha numbers as they come in.

Join the waitlist

Men's health month

Look after yourself. Check in on a mate.

Rugby league has always been about the teammate beside you. Too many men in our game, players and supporters alike, carry things alone. Book the check-up you have been putting off. Ask the question twice. If today is a hard day, talk to someone now. These lines are free to call.

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United Kingdom

In an emergency call 000 in Australia, 111 in New Zealand or 999 in the UK. To back men's health research and programmes this month, support Movember. Rugby League Director is not affiliated with these services; we just want you to have the numbers.

Stand with Jai

One of the game's own needs the game's support.

South Sydney and Queensland forward Jai Arrow is living with Motor Neurone Disease. His fundraiser, organised with Titan Sports Management, supports treatment, specialist care, equipment and his family. If you are able to, please give. Every dollar goes to Jai; Rugby League Director takes nothing.

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