Which is the Bigger Sport - Rugby Union or League? 

League = NASCAR, Union = F1.

In South Africa we dont even know what League is

Why is rugby league living rent free in so many union fans minds?

Rugby union

Guys no matter of it is union or league, just keep both alive and support them as football is shadowing everything 😂😂

Union, obviously. Not a knock against league, I love the NRL, but you could easily sell out the union world cup final 10x over. You can't say the same for league.

What I don’t understand is why so many people are trying to turn Union into league - Union is far more popular and gets a much bigger viewers ship yet certain pundits and administrators think Union needs to be like league. If you want to speed up the game get rid of TMO and put power back into hands of ref and linesman

okay so France has 3 division of fully professional rugby union (that's 42 clubs)

To me, rugby league's flagship product is basically the NRL. And yes, I also think there is no union club's championship that can match it economically as a product. But union end (and historic) product is International rugby and it's of an all another scale.

Oh one last thing .. in South Africa the largest sport by FAR is soccer. There are 1.4 million formally registered players and 4.5 million players who play occasional!! Compare that to 600,000 formally registered rugby players. The number of soccer players is almost the same as the number of people in New Zealand! There are only 2 sports on this earth which are truly global … athletics (every healthy person has run a race even if only in grade 1) and soccer ( every person has kicked a soccer ball) . I’m a white South African love watching Rugby ( and lots of other sports) I am 49 and never picked up a rugby ball in my life!!! I have player soccer at school, at clubs and as a vet … never touched a rugby ball (I want to an all boys Catholic school .. we didnt even have Rugby as a sport then ). Oh the reason that only soccer and athletics are and will be global sports is because they are the only sports that can be played everywhere with minimal equipment. To play rugby properly you need a decent field to do swimming you need a swimming pool. For all we know the most talented rugby player ( of any code ) is in Burkina Faso and the best swimmer is in Chad. The world is a very big place. PS it’s one on my problems with the Winter Olympics .. excludes 60% of the world that does not have … winter … why not have an Extreme Summer Olympics where you can only compete if the temperature is above 35 degrees and the UV index is 10+

Rugby League is more concentrated which can boost the numbers.

I love both codes. Hence my name. I have a season seat for Rugby Football Club Los Angeles in MLR. I also do commentary for Rugby League here. It’s called Pacific Coast Rugby League. I watch both codes religiously. I have friends on both sides of the aisle who hate each other’s games. Fair enough. I want to watch a game with constant action. You can love both.

The fact that the Warriors sold out Fmg stadium within days yet they had to give tickets away for the kiwis game a few months later in the same stadium speaks volumes to the difference between the domestic game and international game.

I watch NRL, SR, URC, Top14, super league, and Gallagher prem, but no longer follow each comp intricately. I look up the games that interest me and watch those. Eg, in the last week I've watched 2 urc, 1 gp, 2 nrl, 2 SR, and 3 top 14 matches (yes i need a life, but i don't watch much else). I don't really give a care about competitions until the finals. Until then, I'm just picking matches to entertain. There'll always be space for NRL as it's entertaining. I can't say the same for super rugby because atm, there's only one or two quality games a weekend if we're lucky

So lets add some balanced and salient facts for the non-league subscribers.

Another thing to mention about club game is that rugby union has 4 big club comps in prem,URC,Top 14 and super rugby while rugby league only has NRL and super league (which isn’t as big as the prem in England). Rugby union also has a continental comp in the champions cup. Rugby league does have the world club challenge though which is very good and I think they should do this in union. Winner of champions cup vs winner of super rugby to be crowned best In the world. Feel the club World Cup will try and do this not sure how well though

Irish Hurling! Now you're talking. Great fan base. 20 over cricket. Now that's fun to watch. I'm with Gazza. Both different but becoming less so. Both great to watch. Probably will meld one day.

NRL is only 1 league competition so it’s all Rugby League fans really have.

Very good video. It would be also interesting to know the Betfred Super League numbers

I'd say the NRL is the premier rugby competition in the world.