The Australian Football League has postponed a game between Essendon and Melbourne because a player who recently returned from Ireland has tested positive for COVID-19

The New Zealand Warriors have fired coach Stephen Kearney while the players and staff are in long-term camp in Australia competing in the National Rugby League

The New Zealand-based Wellington Phoenix has been given the OK to relocate to Australia to finish the A-League season

Izack Rodda has signed with French club Lyon less than a month after leaving the Queensland Reds amid a dispute over pay cuts for all Super Rugby players in Australia during the coronavirus pandemic

Ex-Wallabies captain John Eales and former Prime Minister John Howard have been recruited to a board created to drive Australia’s bid to host the 2027 Rugby World Cup

Australia’s A-League is set to resume on July 16 with a Melbourne derby followed by 27 games in a 28-day period

A match in Australia’s National Rugby League Sunday between the Sydney Roosters and Canterbury Bulldogs has been postponed over fears a Bulldogs player may have been exposed to the coronavirus

Australia’s revamped Super Rugby competition will feature seven experimental rules designed to increase the attacking element of the game and enhance it as a spectacle for viewers

There were no spectators allowed in the cavernous, 100,000-seat Melbourne Cricket Ground for an Australian Football League game that would have drawn close to a capacity crowd in a perfect, non-coronavirus world