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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The National Rugby League (NRL) regular season usually begins in the first week of March, finishing in the first weekend of September before the finals series.Generally, there are 204 games played over 27 rounds, with each of the 17 teams playing 24 matches each.
The two competitions were reunited as the National Rugby League (NRL) in time for the start of the 1998 season. The NRL was established as a company owned in partnership between the ARL and News Limited. In 2013 the ARL was reconstituted as the Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC) and News Limited handed their 50% stake in the NRL back to ...
Year 16 years and 85 days: Ray Stehr: Eastern Suburbs: 1929: 16 years and 220 days: Jack Arnold: Western Suburbs Magpies: 1936: 16 years and 238 days: Jordan Rankin: Gold Coast Titans: 2008: 16 years and 258 days: Frank Burge: Glebe: 1911: 16 years and 303 days: Adam Ritson: Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks: 1993
2023 - Penrith Panthers become the first team in 40 years, and the first in the modern NRL era, to win three premierships in a row (2021, 2022 and 2023). This rare feat is known as a three-peat . This grand final is remembered for the biggest comeback ever in an NRL grand final, with Penrith down 24–8 with 18 minutes remaining to go on to win ...
Although Souths did not participate in the NRL during 2000 and 2001, a Federal Court decision in July 2001 paved the way for them to return to the league in 2002. In 1995, rugby union went professional, and those who had long derided rugby league as merely a professional version of that game were soon predicting the demise of the sport.