The Serbian Rugby League Federation has announced two squads for the third edition of Risman Cup, the traditional season kick-off representative format. The game, named after famous British Risman family, will be played at Belgrade’s BASK Arena on Saturday 21 February and will gather the nation’s best local players divided in two teams named after the sons of Rugby League Hall of Famer Augustus Risman, Bev and John, with the latter a former Serbia coach and credited with the progress of the sport in the country.

The players will have the opportunity to impress Serbia head coach Marko Janković and try to gain the place in the national squad who currently sits on the top of table of European Championship B. The current all-time score is tied at one-all, with Team Bev Risman holding the title after last year's 36-20 win.

By the rules of the competition, the award for the coach of the winning team is the chance to defend title, while the man of the match award will be celebrated by the players of the both teams and carried out onto the pitch on their shoulders in rememberance to impersonate famous picture of Gus Risman holding the 1952 Challenge Cup trophy while at Workington Town.

Current holder Nenad Tomić picked a 21-man squad consisted of the mixture of proven international and emerging youngsters. His counterpart, the challenger Ljubomir Bukvić also has a strong outfit available with the national team captain and vice-captain in his ranks.

Pictured: Stefan Nedeljkovic gets the star treatment "a la Risman". 

TEAM BEV
Milan Avramović, Mirko Božović, Andrej Mora, Aleksa Radić, Dalibor Samaradžić, Stevan Stevanović (Dorćol), Leo Dodić, Stefan Ilić, Nikola Srbljanin (Partizan), Marko Milenković (Radnički Niš), Miloš Djurkovic, Žarko Kovačević, Mile Podkoljnjak (Radnički NP), Denis ÄŒengaj, Vojislav Dedić, Slobodan Manak, Petar Milanović, Dragan Vasiljevic (Red Star), Djordje Stošić (Soko), Milan Ilić, Ivan Ivanović (Tašmajdan Tigers)

TEAM JOHN
Milan ÄŒobanovic, Stefan Nedeljkovic, Vladimir Stanić, Dalibor Vukanović (Dorcol), Denis Bibić, Dragan Janković, Džavid Jašari, Vlado Kušić, Dušan Milutinović, Pavle Vojinović (Partizan), Lazar Živković (Radnički Niš), Pero Madžarević (Radnički NP), Nikola Djurić, Miloš Kostadinović, Aleksandar Radovanović, Vuk Štrbac, Miodrag Tomić, Miloš Zogović (Red Star), Miloš Ćalić, Djordje Gak, Stefan Nikolić (Tašmajdan Tigers)

Live stream of the Risman Cup will be available at the following link: http://www.sportuzivo.tv/v2/stream/index.php?channel=sportuzivo3

Also this weekend, the day after the Risman Cup match, the SRLF Annual General Meeting will be held just before the start of the domestic championship on 7 March, with press conference and teams presentation starting at 13:30 CET also transmitted livevia this link: http://www.sportuzivo.tv/v2/stream/index.php?channel=sportuzivo15