My name is James Deeley and I’d like to welcome you to the North American Rugby Database (NARugbyDB/NARDB)! The aim of this site is to be your ‘one-stop shop’ for professional rugby in North America, providing news, statistics, and insights into your favourite Leagues, players, and teams. This site was born out of the ‘MLRStats’ social stream on instagram (@MLRStats) and on Twitter/X (via my personal account, @JamDelay).
At present NARDB specializes in Major League Rugby (MLR) content as it is the most high-profile professional league in North America, and as you can see, this site is still very basic. As this site grows I hope to be able to cover additional professional leagues/teams across the continent and possibly also expand into covering National Teams/tournaments, but for the time being I have my plate full with covering MLR.
How To Use This Site
This site can be used as a tool to find and/or collate data about current and past MLR players, teams, and results. If you like to search for players, you can do so. If you like to view match reports of the most recent MLR games, you can do so. If you like to trawl through the archive to find a gem, you can do so!
Here are a couple of useful links to get you started:
– Latest MLR Season
– Latest MLR Collegiate Draft
– Current MLR Season
The purpose of this site is to provide accessibility to the professional game in North America, and keep rugby fans engaged with the facts, figures, and records of North America’s top leagues. To get started, use the search bar below or in the top right, or navigate using the tabs along the top of this site. Enjoy!
To request updates to any player/team page, please see the Contact page. For business inquiries, please email inquiries@narugbydb.com directly.
News
- Midweek Milestones: Standout Stats from Round 1 of MLR2025!
The 2025 Major League Rugby season kicked off with thrilling matches, notably featuring Axel Müller’s historic hat trick for Old Glory DC and the Seattle Seawolves surpassing 3,000 all-time points. Pat O’Toole reached significant milestones with NOLA Gold, while the Free Jacks achieved their 50th regular season victory. - MLR Player Movement Summary: January 20-26, 2025
Welcome back to NARDB’s weekly Major League Rugby Off-Season Player Movement Summary Series. On a weekly basis, this series dives deeper into every single roster move announced by teams during the MLR Off-Season. This particular article covers the moves from January 20th to 26th, 2025. - MLR Player Movement Summary: January 13-19, 2025
We’re now two weeks into pre-season camps and eagle-eyed Major League Rugby fans are scouring the teams’ social media posts to catch a glimpse of unannounced players prepping for the 2025 MLR season, which kicks off in under 4 weeks! This series of articles will add detail to every player announcement from the previous week, and this particular article will cover the movement between January 13th and January 19th, 2025. - MLR Player Movement Summary: January 6-12, 2025
This series of articles jumps into all of the player movement around MLR from the previous week. This week’s article covers the week from January 6th to January 12th, 2025, the first full week in a new year. - MLR Player Movement Summary: Dec 30, 2024 – Jan 5, 2025
Every week these MLR Player Movement Summary articles outline each roster move around Major League Rugby, whether that is a returning player, a new signing, or a departure, so that MLR fans can easily stay up to date on all the off-season activity ahead of the 2025 season. This week’s article covers the week from December 30, 2024 to January 5, 2025 and so, as mentioned already, welcome to 2025! - MLR Player Movement Summary: December 23-29, 2024
Every Monday, this series of articles from NARDB will summarise all the moves around MLR from the previous week and add a bit of detail to each move. This particular article covers the moves over the week of Christmas 2024, from December 23rd to December 29th. During that period, six teams made roster announcements and 21 players were involved in total. - MLR Player Movement Summary: December 16-22, 2024
Each week, NARDB summarises every single roster move around the league so fans can easily stay up to date with all the goings on during the off-season. This week, we’ll add a little detail to all the roster moves from the week between December 9th & December 16th! - MLR Player Movement Summary: December 9-15, 2024
Last week we saw 18 re-signings across 4 teams, a relatively high 10 new additions, three intra-league moves and a retirement. With so much movement this article will be on the larger side, but let’s get stuck in. - NARDB’s Ranking of the MLR2025 Away Jerseys
Now this article will follow the same format but for ranking the 11 Away kits for MLR2025. Generally speaking, the away kits feel like the weaker selection, but that could be because I tend to find white jerseys plain and a little lazy, most of the time. We have five away jerseys that are primarily white, and it’s been difficult to a) tell them all apart and b) rank them. - MLR Player Movement Summary: December 2-8, 2024
This article will focus on the player announcements from last week, December 2nd to December 8th, 2024. It will add a bit more context and detail to each move, giving fans a better understanding of the roles these players may play in 2025, and keeping them up to date on all the roster changes. - NARDB’s Ranking of the MLR2025 Home Jerseys
On Tuesday December 3rd, 2024, almost entirely out of the blue save a vague TRN tweet, Major League Rugby revealed the home and away jerseys for all 11 teams for the 8th season of the competition in 2025. - MLR Player Movement Summary: November 25-December 1, 2024
it’s time for your weekly summary of player moves from around Major League Rugby from November 25-December 1, 2024! As always, this article will provide a little bit more context for all of last week’s moves, as well as add a few stats and a summary graphic to keep MLR fans up to date with all of the off-season moves.