National Rugby League reserves affiliations
The National Rugby League (NRL) is the top league of professional rugby league clubs in Australasia. Run by the Australian Rugby League Commission, however, there has not been a league-wide Reserve Grade competition since 1988, when the former New South Wales Rugby League expanded interstate to make the first attempt at a national competition, with the NRL Reserve Grade competition being shut down at the end of the 2002 season.
As a result, NRL-listed players who are not selected in their senior teams are made eligible to play in one of the second-tier state leagues: the New South Wales Cup or the Queensland Cup. The system used to accommodate NRL-listed players within these leagues varies considerably from state to state.
Current affiliations
[edit]In the 2024 season, the seventeen National Rugby League clubs will have the following reserves arrangements.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
- The PNG Hunters and Western Clydesdales in the Queensland Cup are currently the only clubs in either state-based competition without an NRL affiliation.[7]
- *=The North Sydney Bears Contract with the Melbourne Storm will end in 2026 before the Bears become a feeder club for the Western Bears in 2027
Participating clubs by season
[edit]Bold=NSW Cup
Underline=Qld Cup
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "NSW Cup Clubs". New South Wales Rugby League. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Teams". Brisbane Broncos. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/sport/nrl/gold-coast-titans-welcome-twoyear-partnership-with-new-feeder-club-central-queensland-capras/news-story/23aa6ef9b198fe2bd784ffd7f00c0a7c 2017 Titan Feeder Clubs
- ^ "Rd.2 Feeder Team Announcement". Melbourne Storm. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "New feeder club for Toyota Cowboys". North Queensland Cowboys. 10 September 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Capras: Titans have missed big chance". Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "Feeder club cut ties with Bulldogs, aiming to link up with new team". zerotackle.com. 1 May 2024.