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The history of the National Rugby League (NRL), the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia, goes back to December 1997, when it was formed in the aftermath of the Super League war of the mid-1990s. [1] The NRL has, in its relatively brief history, enjoyed growth and record attendance figures.
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 elite professional rugby league club competition in Australia is the National Rugby League (NRL). The NRL's Telstra Premiership is contested by 4 teams from Queensland, 10 from New South Wales, 1 from Victoria and 1 from the Australian Capital Territory as well as 1 team from New Zealand.
The 2014 National Rugby League Grand Final was the highest rated television show for the year in Australia. [ 33 ] In 2015, the league went through a structure change with promotion and relegation reintroduced between Super League and the Championship .
An Australian national rugby league team was first formed during the first season of rugby league in Australia, the 1908 NSWRFL Premiership season. The team, which was made of players from the NSWRFL with a few Queensland rugby rebels added, first played against the "professional All Blacks" on the return leg of their tour of Australia and ...
The Australian rugby league premiers are the winners of the top grade competition in Australian rugby league, which is currently the National Rugby League. From 1908 until 1995, when the ARL Premiership was formed, there were two premiers, one each from Sydney and Brisbane. This occurred again in 1997 during the Super League war.
However a rival competition was being planned and the only season of the News Limited-owned Super League competition (SL) was held in 1997. 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.
Australian Rugby League; 1995: Sydney Bulldogs (7) 17–4 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles: Sydney Football Stadium (1988) 41,127 1996: Manly Warringah Sea Eagles (6) 20–8 St. George Dragons: 40,985 1997: Newcastle Knights: 22–16 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles: 42,482 National Rugby League; 1998: Brisbane Broncos (4) 38–12: Canterbury-Bankstown ...