J. J. Giltinan Shield

The J.J. Giltinan Shield is an Australian rugby league trophy, first introduced for the 1951 New South Wales Rugby Football League season. It was named after the late James J. Giltinan, an entrepreneur who helped to found the sport of rugby league in Australia and who led the first Kangaroo Tour to England in 1908. Giltinan died in 1950 and the Shield was created for the following season in his honour.

From 1951, the Shield was awarded to the winner of the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) Grand Final, replacing the Labor Daily Cup. In addition to the Shield, premiership winning teams received the W. D. & H. O. Wills Cup from 1960–1981, the Winfield Cup from 1982–1995, and the Optus Cup in 1996.

Since 1997 the J.J. Giltinan Shield has been awarded to the NRL minor premiers.

Since the inception of the National Rugby League in 1998, only three teams have won the minor premiership more than once: the Brisbane Broncos (1998 and 2000) who won the premierships in both years, the Parramatta Eels (2001 and 2005) who lost the Grand Final in the former year and lost the preliminary final the latter year and the St. George Illawarra Dragons (2009 and 2010) who won its first premiership in 31 years in the latter year. Only three minor premiers: the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks (in 1999), the Eels in 2005 and the Dragons in 2009 have failed to make the Grand Final in those years. The last team to win the minor premiership/premiership double were the St. George Illawarra Dragons in 2010. The other teams to do so were the Brisbane Broncos, twice (in 1998 and 2000) and the Penrith Panthers in 2003.

J.J. Giltinan Shield Winners (1951 - 2009)

Year Winners
1951 South Sydney
1952 Western Suburbs
1953 South Sydney
1954 South Sydney
1955 South Sydney
1956 St. George
1957 St. George
1958 St. George
1959 St. George
1960 St. George
1961 St. George
1962 St. George
1963 St. George
1964 St. George
1965 St. George
1966 St. George
1967 South Sydney
1968 South Sydney
1969 Balmain
1970 South Sydney
1971 South Sydney
1972 Manly-Warringah
1973 Manly-Warringah
1974 Eastern Suburbs
1975 Eastern Suburbs
1976 Manly-Warringah
1977 St. George
1978 Manly-Warringah
1979 St. George
1980 Canterbury-Bankstown
1981 Parramatta
1982 Parramatta
1983 Parramatta
1984 Canterbury-Bankstown
1985 Canterbury-Bankstown
1986 Parramatta
1987 Manly-Warringah
1988 Canterbury-Bankstown
1989 Canberra Raiders
1990 Canberra Raiders
1991 Penrith
1992 Brisbane Broncos
1993 Brisbane Broncos
1994 Canberra Raiders
1995 Sydney Bulldogs
1996 Manly-Warringah
1997 Manly-Warringah
1998 Brisbane Broncos
1999 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
2000 Brisbane Broncos
2001 Parramatta
2002 New Zealand Warriors
2003 Penrith
2004 Sydney Roosters
2005 Parramatta
2006 Withheld 1
2007 Withheld 1
2008 Withheld 1
2009 St. George-Illawarra Dragons
2010 St. George-Illawarra Dragons
2011 Melbourne Storm

1 The Melbourne Storm were stripped of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 minor premierships on 22 April 2010 due to long-term gross salary cap breaches.

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