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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 to reduce to only fourteen teams in 2000. Currently in 2025, there are ...
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: 40: Manly Warringah Sea Eagles: Melbourne Storm: 40–0: ANZ Stadium: 5 October 2008 2: 38: Eastern Suburbs Roosters: St George Dragons: 38–0: Sydney Cricket Ground: 20 September 1975 3: 32: North Sydney: Glebe: 35–3: Sydney Cricket Ground: 6 September 1922 4: 29: Balmain: South Sydney: 33–4 ...
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]
In round 24 of the 2022 NRL season these two teams played out a thrilling yet very physical game which saw the Sydney Roosters win 18–14. The Sydney Roosters had an early 14–0 lead but had to withstand a late Melbourne comeback to win the game which included an amazing try saver which won the Roosters the game.
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.
1999 – A record crowd of 107,999 watch the two newest clubs Melbourne Storm and St George Illawarra Dragons battle it out. St. George Illawarra led 18–14 before a late penalty try to Melbourne winger Craig Smith gave the Storm a 20–18 win to become the first Victorian team to win a NRL premiership and the quickest NRL club to win their ...
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.