{"id":449485,"date":"2026-01-31T12:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449485\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:09:14","slug":"perth-bears-open-door-to-singapore-games-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449485\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth Bears open door to Singapore games – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Perth Bears<\/a> are still a year away from playing their first NRL<\/a> match, but the league’s incoming 18th franchise is already exploring opportunities well beyond Western Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to international outlet City AM, Bears CEO Anthony De Ceglie has confirmed the club is open to hosting NRL<\/a> fixtures in Singapore, leveraging the shared time zone and aligning with the ARL Commission’s broader push into global markets.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a very different time zone to Sydney and Melbourne,\u201d De Ceglie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re in the economic Asian powerhouse time zone and that’s really handy for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’d love to take the NRL<\/a> to Singapore, it could be the Perth version of Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposal mirrors the NRL’s successful Vegas experiment and forms part of a wider strategy to grow the game internationally, particularly across Asia, where De Ceglie believes untapped commercial and broadcast opportunities exist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s so many opportunities, not just into the east coast market because it means we can play that late game, but also taking the game into Asia could be huge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re the most watched sporting code in Australia<\/a> and we have a monopoly on it in Western Australia<\/a>, it’s a pretty easy selling point, but we’re capitalising on the growth of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Singapore’s National Rugby League<\/a> has reportedly welcomed the concept, with the city-state already positioning itself as a destination for major rugby league events, including the World Club Challenge and potential fixtures in a future NRL<\/a> Global Round.<\/p>\n

Singapore sits just a four-hour flight from Perth, strengthening the logistical case as the Bears continue to shape their identity ahead of their anticipated NRL<\/a> entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perth Bears are still a year away from playing their first NRL match, but the league’s incoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-449485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}