Peter Leitch QSM Challenge Trophy
The Peter Leitch QSM Challenge Trophy (often shortened to "the Peter Leitch Challenge Trophy") is a rugby league challenge trophy that is contested when the New Zealand national rugby league team play a Pacific island side in non-Rugby League World Cup internationals.[1] Rugby League Four Nations games, however, do count and the challenge trophy has been contested at both the 2010 and 2014 editions.The trophy is named after New Zealand businessmen, philanthropist and Rugby League advocate Peter Leitch.On 15 October 2008 New Zealand Rugby League (NZRL) chairman Ray Haffenden announced that the Kiwis vs Tonga Test Match would be used to launch the Peter Leitch QSM Challenge Trophy.The NZRL wished to "acknowledged the close affinity and involvement [Leitch] has had with the Pacific Island and rugby league communities in New Zealand for many years.