Teams
For the first time since 2001, the number of teams in the NRL competition changed, increasing to sixteen teams. 2007 was the first season for the new Gold Coast Titans club, who became the NRL's newest team (excluding mergers) since the Melbourne Storm who entered the League in 1998.
The sixteen teams participated in the competition over the regular season, making it the largest it had been since 1999 when there were seventeen. Of the sixteen clubs, ten were from New South Wales (nine from Sydney's metropolitan area), three from Queensland and one from each of Victoria, the ACT and New Zealand.
Cowboys Storm Knights Broncos Titans Warriors Raiders Dragons Dragons Bulldogs Sharks Sea Eagles Eels Panthers Roosters Rabbitohs Tigers Tigers (Sydney - see left)Just two foundation clubs from New South Wales Rugby League season 1908 played in this, the 100th season of the competition: the Sydney Roosters (formerly known as Eastern Suburbs) and the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Of these two clubs, only the Sydney Roosters played their 100th full season, as the South Sydney Rabbitohs were in recess during 2000 and 2001. It should also be noted that two foundation clubs, the Balmain Tigers and the Western Suburbs Magpies, had played in every year since 1908, but the two sides merged to create the Wests Tigers who competed every year since the merger in 2000.
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Brisbane Broncos |
Bulldogs RLFC |
Canberra Raiders |
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks |
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Gold Coast Titans |
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles |
Melbourne Storm |
Newcastle Knights |
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New Zealand Warriors |
North Queensland Cowboys |
Parramatta Eels |
Penrith Panthers |
| South Sydney Rabbitohs |
Sydney Roosters |
St. George Illawarra Dragons |
Wests Tigers |
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