Mark_Riley_(rugby_league)

Mark Riley (rugby league)

Mark Riley (rugby league)

NZ rugby league footballer

Mark Riley (born 16 June 1967 in New Zealand)[1] is a former rugby league footballer.[2] He played for a number of English rugby league sides during the 1990s.

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Playing career

While playing for the Otahuhu Leopards in the Auckland Rugby League competition in 1990 he won the Best and Fairest award.[3]

A scrum-half, Riley enjoyed a particularly successful season with the then London Crusaders in 1990–91, when he and wing Mark Johnson each challenged for the title of leading try-scorer in the second tier of English rugby league. He later went on to play a part in a successful promotion winning season with Swinton Lions in 1996, breaking the club's most tries in a match record, scoring 6 vs Prescot Panthers, 11 August 1996.

References

  1. [1]
    "Mark Riley – Career Stats & Summary – Rugby League Project".
  2. [2]
    Rugby League Preview: Riley holds the key to a capital crusade The Independent, 19 December 1993
  3. [3]
    Auckland’s best and fairest Archived 2010-06-05 at the Wayback Machine Auckland Rugby League


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