Major League Rugby: US competition set to kick off season five

With a World Cup bid under way, American professional union is determined to show it is on the rise

Major League Rugby will kick-off its fifth season this weekend with the addition of a 13th team, the Dallas Jackals, who postponed entry last year due to the Covid pandemic.

Covid cut short the 2020 US season too but MLR came back to go 99 & 0" in 2021, completing every fixture. In the championship game, the LA Giltinis - one of two teams, with the Austin Gilgronis, still named for a cocktail named for their owner - beat Rugby ATL, from Atlanta, for the shield.