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This changed in 1982 when a Wollongong club and a Canberra based team joined. In 1988 teams from outside New South Wales began to enter the premiership. With the Super League war, the two rival competitions, the ARL and SL, had twenty-two teams competing in the 1997 season. As part of the agreement for the NRL, the competition would be forced ...
The 2006 NRL Grand Final won by the Brisbane Broncos over the Melbourne Storm, 15–8. The matchup was a significant milestone in the history of the NRL, as two interstate teams (teams not from New South Wales, the perceived "heartland" of the NRL) contested the grand final for the first time ever.
The New South Wales Rugby League ran the major rugby league competition of New South Wales from its inception in 1908 until 1994.Following the introduction of a new format for interstate rugby league, the State of Origin series in 1980, the decade of the 1980s brought about expansion of the NSWRL premiership, with the introduction of commercial sponsorship, the Winfield Cup, and the addition ...
Winning Team Defeated Team Score Venue Date 1: 85: St. George: Canterbury-Bankstown: 91–6: Earl Park: 11 May 1935 2: 80: Eastern Suburbs: Canterbury-Bankstown: 87–7: Sydney Sports Ground: 18 May 1935 3: 74: North Queensland Cowboys: Wests Tigers: 74–0: Queensland Country Bank Stadium: 1 July 2023 4: 70: Parramatta Eels: Cronulla ...
This is a list of all the grand finals that were played to decide those premierships. Between 1912 and 1925, and again in 1937, the premiership was decided on a first-past-the-post basis, with a final only played if two teams finished with an equal amount of competition points. This happened in 1916, 1922, 1923 and 1924.
This is a list of captains and coaches of National Rugby League premiership winning teams, as well as its predecessors NSWRL, ARL and Super League. Ken Kearney has captained the most premierships with six, all at St. George, [1] while Arthur Halloway has coached the most premierships with eight, four at Eastern Suburbs and four at Balmain. [2]
The Australian Super league and the ARL had 22 teams combined in 1997. When the NRL was formed in 1998, it was decided that there would only be 20 teams. The Melbourne Storm were the sole expansion team that year, meaning that the NRL had to remove three teams: the Perth Reds, the South Queensland Crushers and the Hunter Mariners.
On 18 May 2003, Parramatta and Manly played in the first ever golden point match in NRL history. Manly would win the match 36–34 at Brookvale Oval courtesy of a Ben Walker penalty goal. [23] In round 2 of the 2018 NRL season, Parramatta suffered their worst ever loss to Manly.