National Rugby League season 2009

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National Rugby League season 2009

Teams 16


The 2009 season of Rugby League will be the one hundred and second year of professional Rugby League in Australia. There will be sixteen teams competing in the competition.

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[edit] History

Rugby league was first introduced into Australia in 1908, with a meeting in Sydney on 8 August 1908 effectively forming a new breakaway league from the New South Wales Rugby Union. The new body was known as the New South Wales Rugby Football League, and became the first professional sporting code in Australia. In the following months, eight Sydney-based teams were formed and signed up to play in the New South Wales Rugby Football League's premiership, with another club joining a week into competition.

The New South Wales Rugby League continued to run the competition up until and including 1994 when it passed on responsibility to the Australian Rugby League, the national authority for rugby league in Australia. In 1997 a rival Super League competition run by News Limited was started and signed up several existing teams from the Australian Rugby League. After both bodies lost a lot of money that year, a truce was signed and a new competition was formed for the 1998 season, under the brand name "National Rugby League."

The National Rugby League, on behalf of the numerous rugby league bodies in Australia, has decided to hold a number of celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the sport in the country. This will include the opening match of the 2008 season being held between the remaining two "foundation clubs" from 1908, the Sydney Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs. As well as this, a special rivalries round will take place which will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the first round of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League, whereby teams will face opponents that entered the competition in similar time frames, such as The Newcastle Knights and The Canberra Raiders, who both entered in the 80s, The Gold Coast Titans and The North Queensland Cowboys, who are both relatively new teams and are both from Queensland, and The Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks who, despite the fact their admittances were almost 20 years apart are fierce rivals since most of Manly's grand final wins have been against The Sharks while the Sharks themselves, despite playing for more than 40 years, have yet to win a premiership.

Several events will also take place to celebrate the 100th anniversary of landmark moments in rugby league in Australia. These events began in August 2007 with a re-enactment of the meeting which led to the formation of the New South Wales Rugby League, essentially the beginning of rugby league in Australia. In January and February 2008, several of the foundation clubs, the Newtown Jets, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Balmain Tigers Sydney Roosters, North Sydney Bears and Western Suburbs Magpies, will host special functions at the places they were officially formed.


[edit] 2009 Season

[edit] Season Results

  • 2009 NRL Season Results

[edit] Ladder

Team Pld W D L B PF PA PD Pts
1 Brisbane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Canberra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Canterbury 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Cronulla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Gold Coast 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Manly 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Melbourne 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Newcastle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 New Zealand 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 North Queensland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Parramatta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Penrith 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 St. George Illawarra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 South Sydney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Sydney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Wests Tigers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0