The 2023 Tonga rugby league tour of England was a three-match tour by the Tonga national rugby league team to England in October and November 2023.
[1][2] The tour was the first by a Pacific island nation to England and the first test match series between the two countries.
[4] England and Tonga had only played each other three times previously, twice during the 2006 Federation Shield and during the 2017 Rugby League World Cup Semi Final.
Tonga however, beat Great Britain during the 2019 Lions tour of New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
The third test match of the series was played at Headingley Stadium as a double header with an England vs Wales women's international test match being played before the men's fixture.