Minj Rugby League Ground
Goroka (Minj), Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Minj Rugby League Ground, Goroka (Minj), Papua New Guinea — opened unknown, 2 rugby league games hosted, home of none confirmed — used as a Highlands-region representative venue rather than a single club's home.
Sourcing caveat: Rugby League Project's own 'Location' field for this venue reads 'Minj, Goroka, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea' — confirmed independently via direct WebFetch of the venue's own summary page. This conflates two distinct, separately-provinced Papua New Guinea towns roughly 100km apart (Minj sits in Western Highlands Province; Goroka is the capital of the separate Eastern Highlands Province). The ground itself is understood to be in Minj; the 'Goroka' label appears to be an inherited database quirk, not a second location. On the 1998 PNG-Fiji venue question: Rugby League Project's own match record attributes the 22 July 1998 Papua New Guinea 34-12 Fiji test to this venue's database entry, while a separate results page for Danny Leahy Oval (Goroka's own named ground) does not list that match among its 13 recorded fixtures — supporting Minj Rugby League Ground as the correct venue, though no independent Wikipedia source was found to confirm it, so this is reported as Rugby League Project's attribution rather than fully settled.
Ground facts
| Opened | unknown (No opening date documented; the earliest recorded match (14 Jun 1994) is only the earliest fixture in Rugby League Project's database.) |
| Home club | none confirmed — used as a Highlands-region representative venue rather than a single club's home |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 2 |
| Top recorded crowd | 5,000 |
| Years used | 1994–1998 |
| Location | Goroka (Minj), Western Highlands |
Name history
Rugby league history
A Western Highlands ground whose recorded rugby league history spans two fixtures: France's touring side beat a PNG Highlands Zone representative team 16-14 there on 14 June 1994, and Papua New Guinea beat Fiji 34-12 in a Test on 22 July 1998 (part of a three-match series alongside games in Nadi and Port Moresby).
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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