Tommy Butterfield (born 1988) is a Papua New Guinean professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who played for the

PNG Hunters The Papua New Guinea Hunters (also referred to as PNG Hunters) are a professional rugby league football club based in Papua New Guinea. They were formed in December 2013 and compete in the Queensland Cup, a second tier competition in Australia. ...

and

Brisbane Tigers The Brisbane Tigers are a rugby league club based at Langlands Park, in the suburb of Coorparoo in Brisbane, Australia. Since 1996, they have competed in the Queensland Cup, having competed in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership (rugby league ...

as a in the

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.He is a

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

international and was previously contracted to the

Brisbane Broncos The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Red Hill, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos compete in the National Rugby League (NRL) and play their home games at ...

in the

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria (state), Victoria, the Austral ...

Early years

Butterfield attended

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and the

University of the Sunshine Coast The University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC; formerly abbreviated as USC until 2022) is a public university based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. After opening with 524 students in 1996 as the Sunshine Coast University College, it ...

Playing career

Butterfield was a

Redcliffe Dolphins Redcliffe Dolphins are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Redcliffe, Queensland, Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1947, they were accepted into the Brisbane Rugby League premiership (rugby league competition), Brisbane R ...

junior and played for the Easts Tigers in the

. In 2012 he was approached by

Whitehaven Whitehaven is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is a port on the north-west coast, and lies outside the Lake District National parks of England and Wales, National Park. ...

but the club failed to get Rugby Football League approval.Whitehaven sign PNG's Glen Nami and Jesse Joe Parker
''bbc.co.uk'', 22 February 2012

Representative career

Butterfield toured Europe with

in 2007.Butterfield dons PNG colours
''Redcliffe and Bayside Herald'', 30 September 2009 He was named in the Papua New Guinea training squad for the 2008 World Cup, but did not make the final squad. In 2009 he played for PNG against Australia's

Prime Minister's XIII Prime Minister's XIII, or sometimes informally referred to as the PM's XIII, a representative rugby league team, comprising Australian players from National Rugby League clubs that did not qualify for the NRL Finals, or whose teams were knocked ...

. In 2010 he played for Australian Universities Rugby League when they toured England and France.Butterfield among cream of crop in league
''usc.edu.au'', 19 October 2010

References

External links

Redcliffe Dolphins profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Butterfield, Tommy 1988 births Living people 21st-century Papua New Guinean sportsmen Brisbane Tigers players Papua New Guinea Hunters players Papua New Guinea national rugby league team players Papua New Guinean emigrants to Australia Papua New Guinean rugby league players PNG Prime Minister's XIII players Queensland Residents rugby league team players Redcliffe Dolphins players Rugby league hookers Rugby league players from Milne Bay Province University of the Sunshine Coast alumni