Pacific Cup

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The Pacific Cup is a rugby league competition for international teams from the pacific region.

It was started in 1974 by Keith Gittoes of the New South Wales Rugby League. It was held twice in the 1970s before being abandoned due to cost. The competition was revived in the 1980s, and held biennually until 1997 (when it was held as the Oceania Cup by Super League aligned teams). The Pacific Cup was revived by the New Zealand Rugby League in 2004 and was most recently held in February and March 2006

[edit] The future

Under a shake up of the whole international structure of rugby league by the RLIF it has been proposed that winners of a Pacific Cup, involving Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Samoa,Fiji and the Cook Islands, gain entry to another proposed tournament, the Southern Hemisphere Four Nations with Australia, New Zealand & England. This plan has yet to be ratified by the RLIF.

[edit] Pacific Cup grand final details

Date	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Location
1974	New Zealand Māori	38–13	Papua New Guinea	Lloyd Robson Oval, Port Moresby
1977	New Zealand Māori	35–12	Western Australia	Rotorua
1988	New Zealand Māori	19–24	Western Samoa	Apia
31 October 1990	Western Samoa	26–18	New Zealand Māori	Carlaw Park, Auckland
1992	Western Samoa	18–14	Tonga
1994	Tonga	34–11	Fiji	Suva
1997	New Zealand Xlll	20–15	New Zealand Māori
23 October 2004	Samoa	52–18	Tonga	North Harbour Stadium, Auckland
5 March 2006	Tonga	22–4	Fiji	Trusts Stadium, Auckland