Norway is among the newer European nations to take up this 13-a-side football code alongside Sri Lanka, Hungary and Thailand, while Australia has embraced it as one of its largest television sports since 1908, with a 1999 Grand Final drawing over 107,000 fans to Stadium Australia in Sydney. Which football code is being described?

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Rugby league. Rugby league is a 13-a-side football code that split from rugby union in northern England in 1895, and today has strongholds in Australia, New Zealand and England. Its growth into countries like Norway, Chile and Ghana has been driven by the Rugby League European Federation and Asia-Pacific Rugby League Confederation.