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
In the 2023 season, the seventeen National Rugby League clubs will have the following reserves arrangements.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Currently the only NSW Cup & QLD Cup teams not affiliated with an NRL club is Queensland Cup team
PNG Hunters, based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
- North Sydney Bears will be unaffliated with Sydney Roosters in 2024
- Gold Coast Titans and North Queensland Cowboys apparently have requested to field stand alone reserve teams
Participating clubs by season
Bold=NSW Cup
Underline=Qld Cup
See also
Notes
References
- http://www.nswrl.com.au/intrust-super-premiership-nsw/nswrl-clubs.html 2017 NSW Cup Feeder Clubs
- http://www.broncos.com.au/team/affiliates.html 2017 Broncos Feeder Clubs
- 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
- https://www.melbournestorm.com.au/news/2016/03/09/rd_2_feeder_team_ann.html 2017 Storm Feeder Clubs
- http://www.cowboys.com.au/news/2014/09/10/new_feeder_club_for_toyota_cowboys.html 2017 Cowboy Feeder Clubs
- "Capras: Titans have missed big chance". Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- "Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs to bring back NSW Cup team in 2022". Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
- "Raiders to return to NSW Cup". Canberra Raiders. 28 January 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.