Rebiamul Oval
Mount Hagen, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Rebiamul Oval, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea — opened not confirmed, 5 rugby league games hosted, home of no specific club's home ground was confirmed by any source, though the Mt Hagen Eagles (PNG's Digicel Cup) are the region's leading modern rugby league club; the ground remains an active grassroots and schools rugby league venue today, hosting the Western Highlands Schools Rugby League Competition.
Sourcing caveat: No capacity, floodlight or playing-surface information was found for this venue in any era. All five match results were independently confirmed via direct Rugby League Project match pages rather than a general tour-summary table, after an initial general-table fetch produced an incorrect score for the 1984 match — a reminder that specific match pages, not summary tables, are the more reliable source on this site.
Ground facts
| Opened | not confirmed (No opening date, founding date or name-change history was found for this Mount Hagen ground in any source checked.) |
| Home club | no specific club's home ground was confirmed by any source, though the Mt Hagen Eagles (PNG's Digicel Cup) are the region's leading modern rugby league club; the ground remains an active grassroots and schools rugby league venue today, hosting the Western Highlands Schools Rugby League Competition |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 5 |
| Top recorded crowd | 12,000 |
| Test matches hosted | 5 |
| First rugby league match | 22 July 1981 — Highlands Zone 14-22 France, 1981 Les Chanticleers tour (attendance 12,000, our recorded top crowd) |
| Years used | 1981–1996 |
| Location | Mount Hagen, Western Highlands |
Name history
- Rebiamul Oval — the only name found; four of our directory's five recorded matches are attributed to this venue via Rugby League Project's venue-grouping page rather than an explicit label on each individual match page (only the 1991 match page names "Rebiamul Oval" directly) — Mount Hagen has essentially one recognised ground of this stature, so the identification is not in serious doubt, but is noted as a slightly softer link than usual
Rugby league history
Rebiamul Oval's five recorded matches, spanning 1981 to 1996, reflect the strong rugby league culture of Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands: touring French, Queensland, British and Australian sides all made the trip to Mount Hagen to play a composite Highlands Zone representative team (and, on two occasions, full Papua New Guinea national sides), part of the code's deep reach into PNG's provincial centres beyond the capital, Port Moresby.
Historic Test matches, Cup & Grand Finals hosted
- 22 July 1981 — Highlands Zone 14-22 France (12,000)
- 15 June 1983 — Highlands Zone 16-34 Queensland Firsts, 1983 Queensland tour (8,000)
- 5 August 1984 — Papua New Guinea 20-38 Great Britain, 1984 Great Britain Lions tour (7,510)
- 9 October 1991 — Highlands Zone 3-28 Australia, 1991 Kangaroos tour (9,000)
- 25 September 1996 — PNG Presidents XIII 8-34 Great Britain, 1996 Great Britain Lions tour (2,000)
Pre-dates the site's structured match-by-match records for these competitions, so listed here as sourced facts rather than linked match pages.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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