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National Rugby League
National Rugby League
Sport Rugby League
Founded 1998
No. of teams 16
Country Flag of Australia Australia
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Current champions Brisbane Broncos
Official website NRL.com

The National Rugby League (often referred to as the Telstra Premiership for sponsorship purposes) is a competition for rugby league clubs in Australia and New Zealand, and is Australia's primary rugby league competition. It is the world's most attended rugby league competition and often considered the most competitive.

The National Rugby League was formed in 1998 following the merging of the Australian Rugby League and Super League competitions, and is currently contested by sixteen clubs. In a total of nine seasons, the title has been won by seven teams: Brisbane Broncos, the Bulldogs, Melbourne Storm, Newcastle Knights, Penrith Panthers, Sydney Roosters and Wests Tigers. The Broncos have won on three occasions.

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[edit] Teams

[edit] Current clubs

[edit] Former clubs

[edit] Merged clubs

As a result of the NRL having strict criteria to take part in the 2000 NRL Season, a number of clubs merged in 1999 and 2000:

[edit] History of the competition before the NRL

Although much structural re-organisation occurred 1995-1998, the NSWRL, ARL, Super League and the NRL are, by convention, considered to be a single continuous competition, from the first competition in 1908 to present.

For example, the Brisbane Broncos have won six titles, two were in the NSWRL, one in Super League, and three in the present day NRL. Each of these premierships carry an equal status, and do not need to be qualified. Playing records, such as points scored, do not differentiate between the various incarnations of the top level competition.

The NRL Trophy itself features a depiction of a famous photo[1], that of Norm Provan and Arthur Summons after the 1963 NSWRL Grand Final.

[edit] 1908: The beginning of the NSWRL Premiership

The inaugural New South Wales Rugby League Premiership began in 1908, and was made up of eight Sydney-based teams and one team from Newcastle. Cumberland joined the competition after the first round, meaning that they played one game fewer than the rest of the field for the season. Still known as the "foundation clubs" today, these nine teams battled against one another during the 1908 season, with South Sydney taking the first premiership honours after beating Eastern Suburbs in the Final.

Club Traditional Colours Years Contested Matches [2] Seasons
Played Won Drew Lost Win/Loss Played Premiers Minor Premiers Runners-Up
Balmain Tigers 1908 - 1999 1705 871 68 766 53.08% 92 11 7 9
Cumberland 1908 8 1 0 7 12.50% 1 0 0 0
Eastern Suburbs 1908 - current 1880 995 67 818 54.71% 98 12 16 14
Glebe 1908 - 1929 297 163 6 128 55.89% 22 0 1 4
Newcastle 1908 - 1909 20 9 0 11 45.00% 2 0 0 0
Newtown 1908 - 1983 1305 583 59 663 46.93% 76 3 6 7
North Sydney 1908 - 1999 1665 678 71 916 42.85% 92 2 2 1
South Sydney 1908 - 1999
2002 - current		 1813 940 45 828 53.09% 96 20 17 13
Western Suburbs 1908 - 1999 1691 734 49 908 44.86% 92 4 5 8

[edit] 1908 - 1994: expansion of the NSWRL Premiership

Main article: New South Wales Rugby League premiership

The New South Wales Rugby League premiership had been running since 1908. Sydney suburban teams came and went throughout its history but it was not until 1982 did the competition see expansion outside of the Sydney area. The two new inclusions were from the Australian Capital Territory - the Canberra Raiders - as well as a team from the southern New South Wales region - the Illawarra Steelers.

Moving along in time saw further pressure for expansion in the NSWRL. In 1988, for the very first time, two Queensland teams joined the competiton, with the inclusions of the Brisbane Broncos and the Gold Coast-Tweed Giants seeing the game move beyond the outer borders of New South Wales. Also at the same time pressure mounted from the central coast of New South Wales with the return of a Newcastle franchise. Their return was an 86 year wait in the wilderness and this time around the franchise was badged the Newcastle Knights.

Club Traditional Colours Years Contested Matches [3] Seasons
Played Won Drew Lost Win/Loss Played Premiers Minor Premiers Runers-Up
Annandale 1910 - 1920 153 25 6 122 18.30% 11 0 0 0
University 1920 - 1937 242 47 5 190 20.45% 18 0 0 1
St. George 1921 - 1998 1545 910 56 579 60.71% 78 15 15 12
Canterbury-Bankstown 1935 - current 1502 778 53 671 53.56% 71 8 6 8
Manly-Warringah 1947 - 1999
2003 - current		 1261 719 35 507 58.41% 56 6 9 9
Parramatta 1947 - current 1321 608 38 675 47.46% 59 4 5 4
Cronulla-Sutherland 1967 - current 932 456 22 454 50.11% 39 0 2 3
Penrith 1967 - current 917 379 26 512 42.75% 39 2 2 1
Illawarra 1982 - 1998 396 153 13 230 40.28% 17 0 0 0
Canberra 1982 - current 606 323 9 274 54.04% 24 3 1 2
Brisbane 1988 - current 457 299 11 147 66.63% 18 5 4 0
Newcastle 1988 - current 446 234 14 198 54.04% 18 2 0 0
Gold Coast 1988 - 1998 246 53 9 184 23.37% 11 0 0 0

[edit] 1994 - 1997: ARL and Super League

Main articles: Australian Rugby League and Super League (Australia)

The Australian Rugby League took over control of the Winfield Cup in 1995. Due to Government laws prohibiting the advertising of tobacco products introduced in the 1990s, the competition was renamed the ARL Optus Cup for 1996-97. It was played for by the 16 NSWRL teams that played in 1994 and four new clubs, the North Queensland Cowboys, the South Queensland Crushers, the Auckland Warriors and the Western Reds.

Canterbury won the 1995 Grand Final over Manly, Manly beat St. George in 1996 and Newcastle beat Manly in 1997. At the end of 1995 the Gold Coast Seagulls changed their name to the Gold Coast Chargers and moved from Tweed Heads to Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast.

Super League was a breakaway competition that had its beginnings in 1995, but had its first and only season in 1997. It was made up of 10 teams based in four states , one territory and two countries (Australia and New Zealand), with Brisbane defeating Cronulla in the Grand Final at Brisbane's ANZ Stadium.

The ARL continued to run in 1997, with the remaining 12 teams competing for the Optus Cup.

Club Traditional Colours Years Contested Matches [4] Seasons
Played Won Drew Lost Win/Loss Played Premiers Minor Premiers Runers-Up
Auckland 1995 - current 273 124 4 145 46.15% 11 0 1 1
North Queensland 1995 - current 274 94 6 174 35.40% 11 0 0 1
South Queensland 1995 - 1997 65 13 1 51 20.77% 3 0 0 0
Western Reds 1995 - 1997 61 24 1 36 40.16% 3 0 0 0
Adelaide 1997 - 1998 42 13 1 28 32.14% 2 0 0 0
Hunter 1997 18 7 0 11 38.89% 1 0 0 0

[edit] The history of the National Rugby League

[edit] 1998: The beginning of the National Rugby League

Canberra v Newcastle, Canberra Stadium, 19-Mar-2005.
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Canberra v Newcastle, Canberra Stadium, 19-Mar-2005.

With twenty-two teams playing in two competitions in 1997 crowd attendances and corporate sponsorships were spread very thinly, and many teams found themselves in financial difficulty. On September 23, 1997 the ARL announced that it was forming a new company to control the competition in 1998 and invited Super League clubs to participate. On October 7 Rupert Murdoch announced that he was confident that there would be a single competition in 1998 and in the following months the National Rugby League, jointly owned by the ARL and News Limited, was formed.

It was announced that the 1998 Season would have 20 teams competing, 19 Super League/ARL teams and the Melbourne Storm, who were owned by News Limited. Clubs on both sides of the war were shut down. News decided to close the Hunter Mariners and the financially ruined Western Reds, who were $10million in debt at the end of 1997, while the ARL decided to close down the South Queensland Crushers, who were also in severe financial trouble. At the end of 1998 News Limited decided to close down the Adelaide Rams and the ARL closed down the Gold Coast Chargers, even though they were one of the few clubs to make a profit during the Super League war.

Club Traditional Colours Years Contested Matches [5] Seasons
Played Won Drew Lost Win/Loss Played Premiers Minor Premiers Runers-Up
Melbourne 1998 - current 219 122 4 93 56.62% 8 1 1 1
St George Illawarra 1999 - current 193 100 5 88 53.11% 7 0 0 1
Wests Tigers 2000 - current 161 66 3 92 41.93% 6 1 0 0
Northern Eagles 2000 - 2002 76 30 1 45 40.13% 3 0 0 0
Gold Coast Titans 2007 - 0 0 0 0 0% 0 0 0 0

[edit] 1999-2002: Rationalisation

National Rugby League team locations in Australia, Sydney and New Zealand
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National Rugby League team locations in Australia, Sydney and New Zealand

One condition of the peace agreement between the ARL and News Limited was that there would be a 14 team competition in 2000. The 20 clubs that played in 1998 would be assessed on various items such as sponsorship, crowds, on-field success and the like. It was also announced that clubs that merged would receive a large sum of money, as well as a guaranteed position in the 2000 NRL Competition. St. George were the first club to take up the offer, and they merged with the Illawarra Steelers at the end of 1998. Balmain and Western Suburbs formed the jointventure club, the Wests Tigers at the end of 1999, while North Sydney and Manly-Warringah merged to form the ill-fated Northern Eagles. Souths were controversially axed from the competition at the end of 1999 for failing to meet the criteria.

This move was highly controversial and on 11 November 2001 80,000 marched in protest at their continued exclusion. South Sydney challenged the decision in the Federal Court claiming that the NRL agreement was exclusionary, intended to unfairly exclude South Sydney, and breached the Trade Practices Act. Justice Paul Finn ruled that the agreement did not specifically exclude any club and dismissed the Rabbitohs claims for re-instatement into the national competition. Souths appealed this decision and were re-admitted into the competition in 2002.

In 2001, Australia's largest telecommunications provider Telstra became naming rights sponsor of the NRL, with the competition's name becoming the NRL Telstra Premiership, while in 2002 David Gallop took over the CEO role from David Moffet, and the competition has become more and more popular each season.

Since 2001, the NRL Grand Final has been played on Sunday nights, a shift from the traditional Sunday afternoon slot used for over a decade prior.

[edit] 2003-2005: Record popularity

"That's My Team" has been the NRL's marketing slogan since 2003
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"That's My Team" has been the NRL's marketing slogan since 2003

The 2003 season was widely regarded as the most successful since the beginning of the National Rugby League in 1998. The Penrith Panthers rose from the bottom of the table to win the Premiership, while the Broncos returned to Lang Park mid-year. Season 2004 proved even more successful than 2003, with the North Queensland Cowboys going from 11th position in 2003 to 3rd in 2004, narrowly missing out on a maiden Grand Final berth.

In 2005, the NRL reached record levels of popularity. Crowd average records were broken in 2003, 2004 and 2005, [6] and from 2004 to 2005 there was a 39% increase in sponsorship, a 41% increase in merchandise royalties and a 12% increase in playing participation[7]. In 2005 Business Review Weekly ranked the NRL 497 in revenue of Australian private companies, with revenue of A$66.1m (+7%) with 35 employees. In 2005, a record national audience of 4.1 million tuned into watch the grand final between the West Tigers and the North Queensland Cowboys. [1]

[edit] 2005: Legal action

In 13 September 2005, the Seven Network began proceedings in the Federal Court in Sydney naming 22 parties (including the NRL) in a conspiracy to shut down the C7 pay television station[8]. C7 had unsuccessfully bid $72,000,000 per annum for the right to broadcast the NRL competition on pay television. After News Limited re-signed these rights, C7 was left without a major sport to broadcast and subsequently ceased operation in March 2002. It is alleged that News Limited used its position as half-owner of the NRL to secure the rights. Jonathan Sumption, QC representing the Seven Network, has said

It is inconceivable that News would have been able to get away with this if it had not controlled one, half the NRL, two, the leading pay TV broadcaster and three, the largest cable network in Australia.[9]

The case is being heard by Justice Ron Sackville. The Seven Network is seeking up to $1.1 billion in damages. Sumption also stated that:

Other alternative remedies (to stop Foxtel illegally acquiring sports) would be to make News and PBL divest Fox Sports or stop them buying AFL or NRL rights in a non competitive environment[10]

[edit] 2006: A unique year

Main article: 2006 NRL season

The 2006 National Rugby League season kicked off on Friday, March 10th, between defending premiers Wests Tigers and early favourites St George Illawarra Dragons at Telstra Stadium. Wests won this opening game 24-15, but failed to reach the finals.

Melbourne, after leading the competiton for most of the season, comfortably claimed the minor premiership, with the Bulldogs, Brisbane, and Newcastle making up the top four. Manly, St George Illawarra, Canberra and Parramatta took places five to eight.

The 2006 NRL Grand Final was won by the Brisbane Broncos, who defeated the Melbourne Storm 15-8. The match was a significant milestone in the history of the NRL, as two interstate teams (teams not from New South Wales, the perceived "heartland" of the NRL) contested the grand final for the first time ever.

The game as a whole once again enjoyed immense support, with more record TV ratings, and greater exposure in Melbourne (particularly due to the Storm's success, and the State of Origin decider being played in Melbourne). Attendance figures were down on 2005, however were higher than any other year prior to that.

[edit] 2007: Expansion once more

Main article: National Rugby League season 2007

The 2007 NRL season is set to kick-off on 16 March 2007. Foundation clubs South Sydney and Sydney Roosters will celebrate their 100th season in Rugby League, although only the latter has played in each and every of those 100 seasons. These two clubs are already confirmed to meet in the return of Monday night football in Round 1 on 19 March 2007.

The 2007 season, most importantly, sees expansion club the Gold Coast Titans enter the national competition. This brings the number of teams in the NRL back to 16, however the bye will remain a feature of the draw, with each team receiving one. The Titans will play their inaugural premiership match against St George Illawarra at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Sunday 18 March. The Grand Final will take place on Sunday 30 September at Telstra Stadium.

[edit] How the NRL works

[edit] The draw

Prior to 1988 (where 14 teams or less have competed), each team played the others, once at home and once away. However, since then the system used to produce the draw and number of rounds to be played has varied from year to year, due to changes in the number of teams participating.

In 2007, the sixteen NRL teams will play each other in a rotating roster that lasts for twenty-five rounds, each round having eight games, from the middle of March through to September. This is known as the regular season.

The sixteen teams are divided into two pools. as follows:

Pool A: Storm, Knights, Sea Eagles, Eels, Cowboys, Panthers, Sharks, Titans.
Pool B: Bulldogs, Broncos, Dragons, Raiders, Warriors, Tigers, Roosters, Rabbitohs.

Teams in different pools play each other twice (16 games) and teams in their pool once (7 games), with an additional game against a team within their own pool, for 24 games.

[edit] The rounds

There is one round every weekend, consisting of eight games. Two games are played on Friday night (7:30 p.m. local time), three on Saturday (5:30 p.m. and two at 7:30 p.m. local time), two on Sunday (2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. local time), and one on Monday (7.00 p.m.)

Four rounds (6, 10, 13 and 16) have six games, with four teams receiving a bye. This serves to lighten the playing load during the representative season.

[edit] Points and ladder

The winner of each game per round is awarded two points on the League Ladder. The team with the bye is also awarded two points automatically. If a game is drawn between the two teams, each team is awarded one point each. (However, drawn matches are first subject to the golden point process, introduced in 2003.).

At the end of the regular season, the eight teams with the highest point totals on the ladder qualify for the finals. In the event of two or more teams sharing the same competition points, the finishing order is decided by points differential i.e. points scored during games minus points conceded.

Prior to 1995, however, a team could not be excluded from the finals system by points differential alone, in these cases, a mid-week playoff (or, if required, series of playoffs, such as in 1960) was held to determine the finalists.

[edit] Finals series

Currently the NRL is using the McIntyre Final Eight System, this has also varied over the years [11]. This consists of a number of knockout and sudden-death games over four weeks between the top eight teams in August and September until there are only two teams remaining. These two teams then play in the Grand Final, on the first Sunday of October.

In the first week, the top four seeds play at their respective home grounds. From week two onwards, all finals matches are scheduled to be played in Sydney, either at Aussie Stadium or Telstra Stadium. (although more recently, the NRL has taken steps to facilitate some matches being played outside Sydney).

Since 1999 the Grand Final has been contested at Telstra Stadium, the primary athletics venue during the 2000 Olympic Games held in Sydney. From 1988 to 1998 the Grand Final was held at Sydney Football Stadium, and until 1987 was held at the Sydney Cricket Ground for around eighty years.

The NRL announced in June 2006 that the National Rugby League Grand Final will continue to be held at Sydney's Telstra Stadium until at least 2012, when it will be considered to be moved interstate if certain circumstances arose.[12]

[edit] Salary Cap

Main article: Salary cap

The National Rugby League adopted a salary cap based on the Australian Football League model in the early 1990s. In the NRL, clubs found to have breached the salary cap rules usually incur a fine. For example, six clubs were fined for minor infractions in 2003. These infractions are usually technical in nature and can sometimes be affected by third-party factors such as loss of sponsorship revenue affecting an allowance.

However in mid-2002, the Bulldogs were found guilty of serious and systemic breaches. In addition to a more substantial fine, they were stripped of their competition points accumulated to that date, and hence denied a place in the finals. As the club had been leading the competition table prior to the penalty's imposition, this was a shattering outcome for the club and its fans. Furthermore, in the 2006 pre-season the New Zealand Warriors revealed that their former management had rorted the salary cap in the 2004 and 2005 seasons. As a punishment the club was stripped of four competition points for 2006 and fined 430,000 Australian dollars. They also must play 2007 under a reduced salary cap.

[edit] NRL Premiers
Past winners of the National Rugby League
Season Premiers GF Score Runner-up GF Attendance Minor Premiers
1998 Brisbane Broncos 38-12 Canterbury Bulldogs 40,857 Brisbane Broncos
1999 Melbourne Storm 20-18 St George Illawarra Dragons 107,558 Cronulla Sharks
2000 Brisbane Broncos 14-6 Sydney Roosters 94,277 Brisbane Broncos
2001 Newcastle Knights 30-24 Parramatta Eels 90,414 Parramatta Eels
2002 Sydney Roosters 30-8 New Zealand Warriors 80,130 New Zealand Warriors
2003 Penrith Panthers 18-6 Sydney Roosters 81,166 Penrith Panthers
2004 Bulldogs 16-13 Sydney Roosters 82,127 Sydney Roosters
2005 Wests Tigers 30-16 North Queensland Cowboys 82,453 Parramatta Eels
2006 Brisbane Broncos 15-8 Melbourne Storm 79,609 Melbourne Storm

Previous premiers:
Premiers under the NSWRL/ARL banner
Premiers under the Super League banner
Total premiership tallies

[edit] NRL in the Media

[edit] Magazines

[edit] Television Shows

Program Name Broadcaster Release Day Release Time (AEST) Type of Program
NRL Scoreboard Fox Sports 1 Monday 8:30PM Match Review
NRL on Fox Fox Sports 1 Wednesday 7:30PM Discussion
The Footy Show Nine Thursday 9:30PM Comedy
Friday Night Football Nine Friday 8:30PM NRL Match
Super Saturday Fox Sports 1 Saturday 3:00PM NRL Matches
The Sunday Footy Show Nine Sunday 11:00AM Discussion
The Sunday Roast Nine Sunday 12:00PM Discussion
Sunday Football Nine Sunday 4:00PM NRL Match

[edit] Radio

Due to current radio deals, only ABC Local Radio and 2GB hold the rights to broadcast NRL matches, however 2GB on-sells its coverage to many other stations in cities, towns and regional areas.

Broadcaster Program Name Air Day Air Time (AEST) Stream
ABC Local Radio Grandstand Rugby League Saturday
Sunday		 5:00PM - 10:00PM
12:00PM - 6:00PM		 702 ABC Sydney (Real Media)
702 ABC Sydney (Windows Media)
2GB Weekend Detention Saturday 12:00PM - 8:00PM 2GB 873 Sydney (Real Media)
Sunday Football Sunday 12:00PM - 6:00PM
Triple M Monday Night 6:00PM - 10:00PM Triple M (Windows Media)

Starting in 2007 2GB shall call a Friday night game, Saturday and Sunday games with 2MMM calling Monday night's game. (Source: Ray Hadley Morning Show)

[edit] NRL Computer Games

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Norm Provan and Arthur Summons photo
  2. ^ Rugby League Tables / Win-Loss Records / All Teams, As of Round 10, 2006,
  3. ^ Rugby League Tables / Win-Loss Records / All Teams, As of Round 10, 2006,
  4. ^ Rugby League Tables / Win-Loss Records / All Teams, As of Round 10, 2006,
  5. ^ Rugby League Tables / Win-Loss Records / All Teams, As of Round 10, 2006,
  6. ^ Rugby League Tables / Attendances 1957-2006 / All Teams
  7. ^ Courier Mail
  8. ^ Seven's footy legal battle to kick off, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 9 2005
  9. ^ News plotter used NRL spot to outbid C7, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 14 2005
  10. ^ Seven wants $1.1b payback over C7 demise, The Age, September 19 2005
  11. ^ Rugby League Tables - Notes
  12. ^ Sydney locks in grand final for six years
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