{"id":935517,"date":"2026-10-21T00:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935517\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:10:20","slug":"nrl-news-2026-png-chiefs-unveil-logo-jersey-for-inaugural-season-amid-court-battle-with-super-rugby-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935517\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: PNG Chiefs unveil logo, jersey for inaugural season amid court battle with Super Rugby team"},"content":{"rendered":"

PNG Chiefs<\/a> officials have unveiled their logo and jersey, as the NRL<\/a> expansion franchise continues to ramp up before 2028. <\/p>\n

At a ceremony held in Port Moresby on Wednesday morning, the league\u2019s 19th team dropped their official colours and playing kit for the inaugural campaign.<\/p>\n

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PNG Chiefs jersey and logo.\u00a0SMH\/PNG Chiefs<\/p>\n

The jersey will be predominantly black, while the logo is red, white and gold.<\/p>\n

It comes just days after the club was dragged to court in New Zealand by a Super Rugby team with the same \u2018Chiefs\u2019 name<\/a>, who are based in Waikato.<\/p>\n

NZ Rugby lost their bid to have an interim injunction placed on the Chiefs name last week, which was a major setback for the governing body given it was public knowledge the jersey launch would be taking place on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A full hearing of NZR\u2019s case is still expected to take place at a later date, but the NRL club have argued it would be \u201cnext to impossible to rebrand\u201d.<\/p>\n

PNG\u2019s logo was designed by a team of graphic artists from the country, while the jersey was designed by renowned local artist TABU and features cultural drawings.<\/p>\n

A statement from the club lauded it as a \u201cwatershed occasion\u201d for the Chiefs.<\/p>\n

Despite not joining the NRL for another 18 months, the Chiefs have done an incredible job thus far of landing marquee talent and a quality head coach.<\/p>\n

Willie Peters<\/a>, who led Hull KR to Super League and Challenge Cup glory, will take the reins for the side\u2019s first season, while the likes of Jarome Luai<\/a>, Joseph Manu<\/a> and Zac Lomax<\/a> have all signed on to play for the new team.<\/p>\n

The signing spree is expected to continue from November 1, when a truckload of players from rival NRL clubs become available on the open market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PNG Chiefs officials have unveiled their logo and jersey, as the NRL expansion franchise continues to ramp up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":["post-935517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935517","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=935517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}