List Of Teams In The NSWRL/ARL/SL/NRL
This is a complete list of teams that have competed in the first-grade competition in Australia that began with the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRL) competition in 1908. The NSWRL competition ran until the end of the 1994 season where the Australian Rugby League (ARL) took over and ran the competition until 1997. However a rival competition was being planned and the only season of the rival Super League competition (SL) was held in 1997. The two competitions were brought together and formed the National Rugby League (NRL) in 1998 which still runs today.
Therefore, the first-grade competition of rugby league in Australia has run for 106 years, this year being the 107th season.
There have been thirty-three teams which have competed in all of the first-grade competitions since 1908, of which sixteen remain in this competition. There were nine foundation clubs, which all began in 1908, however over the next eighty years, the NSWRL only ever expanded into the Sydney region which included eight new teams while five clubs left the competition. This changed in 1982 when a Wollongong club and a Canberra based team joined in 1988. In 1998 teams from outside New South Wales began to enter the premiership. With the Super League war, the two rival competitions, the ARL and SL, had twenty-two teams competing in the 1997 season. As part of the agreement for the NRL, the competition would be forced to reduce to only fourteen teams in 2000.
Currently in 2013, there are sixteen teams. There are ten teams from the state of NSW, three from Queensland, one from the Australian Capital Territory, one from Victoria and one from the neighbouring country New Zealand. Of all thirty three teams, the majority have come from Sydney where seventeen clubs have called home. The other teams have had three come from the NSW town of Newcastle and five have come from Queensland, one from Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Western Australia, as well as one from New Zealand.
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