Yet, as this channel was facing economic difficulties, the clubs tend to broadcast their home games via the social networks.

[3] At the end of the regular season, the top six in the table advanced to the knockout stage.

Unlike, for instance, the BBC, France Television didn't offer any program to the French public about Rugby League.

Explanations usually given are the low number of participants in France but also pressure which would be made by the Union authorities on the French Public Television Group.

Presently, French clubs have to fund the broadcast of their own games or to televise their own matches themselves via the social networks or YouTube.

In Australia, the monthly publication Rugby League Review offer a few columns about the games as well.