# Rugby League & Rugby Union

**URL:** <https://pheromonetalk.com/t/rugby-league-rugby-union/61816>\
**Category:** Lounge\
**Created:** [April 30, 2014, 8:27am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/rugby-league-rugby-union/61816 "2014-04-30T08:27:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![nizamgph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@nizamgph](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/nizamgph)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 8:27am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/rugby-league-rugby-union/61816/1 "2014-04-30T08:27:37Z")

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Can someone please explain the basic difference between Rugby League & Rugby Union?

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**Author:** ![mobocaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mobocaster](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/mobocaster)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/rugby-league-rugby-union/61816/2 "2014-05-03T15:06:05Z")

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At its root, Rugby League is a professional sport, with a leaning towards high-energy US-style and entertainment in matches, whist Rugby Union is more complex with differeng rules and interpretations and reflects the traditional amateur game, although the amateur/professional differential largely vanished some time ago.

There is maybe a class issue as well, with the Rugby League heartlands being the working class/industrial North of England, whilst Rugby Union is still strongly associated with the upper/upper-middle classes, private schools and royal-patronised associations and has its heartlands in the likes of the “Playing Fields of Eaton”, the older Universities, Murrayfield in Edinburgh and other more up-market places, although again a working class background won’t hamper a good player nearly as much as it used to.