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Location Teams Founded Winner Score Runners-up National Rugby League: Australia, New Zealand: 17 1998 Penrith Panthers: 28-12 Parramatta Eels: NRL State Championship: Australia: 2 2014 Penrith Panthers 44-10 Norths Devils NRL Women's Premiership: Australia: 10 2018 Newcastle Knights: 32-12 Parramatta Eels
New South Wales Cup: Colors Rugby League Club Est. Joined* City/Town State/Territory Stadium/s NRL Affiliate; Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles: 1962 2017
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 ...
After the two leagues reunified into the National Rugby League, the 1998 NRL season saw the 20 teams play 24 matches, playing five teams twice whilst coming up against the other 14 sides once. The next season, the competition cut to 17 teams, meaning one team had a bye each week. The teams still played 24 matches though, playing more teams twice.
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 ...
Below is a List of current NRL Women's team squads. There are 10 teams that compete in the NRL Women's Premiership , increasing in 2023 from the 6 teams that played in the 2022 season. Statistics for the past seasons drawn from the Rugby League Project .
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. Formerly, 16 of these teams also fielded National Youth Competition teams, an Under 20s competition that ceased in 2017.
In 1888, an English team visited Australasia, playing rugby rules in Queensland, New South Wales and New Zealand, and Australian rules football in Victoria and South Australia. In 1899, an Australian team was formed using players from Queensland and New South Wales for the first time. They played a series of Tests against a British team.