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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 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 ...
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.
Year 40 years and 5 days: Billy Wilson: North Sydney Bears: 1967: 39 years and 311 days: Ted Courtney: Western Suburbs: 1924: 38 years and 263 days: George Green: North Sydney: 1922: 38 years and 149 days: Roy Kirkaldy: Canterbury-Bankstown: 1948: 38 years and 31 days: Paul Gallen: Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks: 2019
The same year a report conducted by Brand Finance valued the Penrith Panthers club at $46.2m, the highest of any Australian sporting brand, while the Brisbane Broncos had the highest brand equity. [31] Polling conducted by Roy Morgan Research indicated that in 2014 the NRL was second only to the AFL in terms of football television viewship. [32]
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.
As of the end of 2023, there have been 26 NRL Premierships and 116 overall, including the competition's predecessors (NSWRL and ARL). This is a list of all the grand finals that were played to decide those premierships.