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NRL Women's Premiership
Upcoming season or competition:
Current sports event 2018 NRL Women's season
File:Holden NRL Women's Premiership Logo.png
SportRugby league
Founded6 December 2017,
Sydney, Australia
First season2018
CEOTodd Greenberg
No. of teams4
CountryAustralia
HeadquartersSydney, New South Wales, Australia
TV partner(s)Nine Network
Sponsor(s)Holden
Domestic cup(s)Tarsha Gale Cup
Related
competitions		National Rugby League
NSWRL Women's Premiership

NRL Women's Premiership (NRLW) is Australia's national rugby league competition for female players. The first season of the league will begin in September 2018 with four teams. The league will be run by the National Rugby League (NRL) and will be contested by a subset of clubs from that competition.

History

See also: Women's rugby league in Australia

In 2016, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and St. George Illawarra Dragons contested a Women's Nine's match, which served as a curtain-raiser to the NRL match between the Sharks and Sydney Roosters, at Southern Cross Group Stadium. The Sharks won the match 16–12.[1][2]

In March 2017, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks played another Women's Nine's match, this time defeating the Canberra Raiders by 28–10.[3]

Establishment

On 6 December 2017, shortly after the conclusion of the 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup, which concluded with the Jillaroos defeating the New Zealand Ferns by 23–16 in the final,[4] it was announced by the National Rugby League that the inaugural NRL Women's season would operate in a round-robin format, and be held in August 2018, towards the back end of the men's season, with some matches to be played as curtain-raisers to NRL finals matches. The Grand Final, which will be contested between the top two teams at the end of the round robin stage, will be played on the same day as the men's Grand Final. It was also announced that a stand-alone State of Origin match would also be contested in the representative weekend, in June.[5]

The Newcastle Knights, St. George Illawarra Dragons,[6][7][8] Brisbane Broncos, New Zealand Warriors,[9] Sydney Roosters, South Sydney Rabbitohs and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks[10] all declared their interest in applying for a licence to participate in the inaugural NRL Women's competition.[11] Other clubs, such as the Melbourne Storm,[12] Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, Gold Coast Titans, Canberra Raiders, Wests Tigers, Parramatta Eels, Penrith Panthers and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, all decided to delay bidding until at least the next season, citing money and time constraints.[13]

On 27 March 2018, the National Rugby League announced that the Brisbane Broncos, New Zealand Warriors, St. George Illawarra Dragons and Sydney Roosters had won bids to participate in the inaugural NRL Women's competition, to commence in September 2018.[14][15]

Clubs

NRL Women's operates on a single table system, with no divisions, conferences nor promotion and relegation from other leagues.

The competition's 4 teams are based across 2 states of Australia and 1 region in New Zealand.

Current clubs

Club State Nation Est. First exhibition
series 		Joined
league 		Coach
Brisbane Broncos[14] Queensland Australia 1988 2018 Paul Dyer
New Zealand Warriors Auckland Region New Zealand 1995 2018 Luisa Avaiki
St George Illawarra Dragons New South Wales Australia 1999 2016 2018 Daniel Lacey
Sydney Roosters New South Wales Australia 1908 2018 Dean Widders
NRL Women's Premiership is located in National Rugby League
Broncos
Warriors
Dragons
Dragons and Roosters
Dragons and Roosters
Roosters
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Locations of the participating clubs

Venues

Below are the venues that will be used during the 2018 NRL Women's season.

Main article: List of Australian rugby league stadiums
Stadium/Ground City Host club(s) Capacity
ANZ Stadium Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales St. George Illawarra Dragons 84,000
Suncorp Stadium Milton, Queensland Brisbane Broncos 52,500
Allianz Stadium Moore Park, New South Wales Sydney Roosters 45,500
Mount Smart Stadium Penrose, New Zealand New Zealand Warriors 30,000

Players

See also: List of current NRL Women's team squads

The club's playing lists will be constructed from scratch through the later stages of 2018. All participants in the 2018 season are required to be over the age of 17.

Initially, clubs will be asked to nominate a list of desired players, with the NRL assigning two of these "marquee" players to each club. In addition, clubs will be able to sign a number of players with existing connections to the club, or with arrangements for club sponsored work or study.

Season structure

The season will operate using a Round-robin format, with the top two finishing teams to contest the Grand Final which is to be held on the same day as the men's NRL Grand Final.[5]

Media coverage

Television

In its inaugural season all matches will be televised live by affiliate partners the Nine Network.[16]

Online

The official internet/mobile broadcast partner of the NRL is 9Now and BigPond, part of Telstra. The company hosts the league website as well as those of each of the four participation clubs. The NRL has retained digital broadcast rights to matches in the league's inaugural season and will stream all matches live and free on the league website and mobile app.

Outside Australia, the inaugural season is available on Watch NRL.

Corporate relations

Sponsorship

The Holden is the league's current and inaugural naming rights partner.[17][18]

All playing and training equipment as well as all licensed apparel and hats for the league's four clubs are manufactured by Nike.

Other league sponsors include Wolf Blass, Chemist Warehouse and Kellogg's.

The official ball supplier is Steeden.[19]

Merchandising

Official match day attire together with other club merchandise is sold through the NRL's stores and website as well through the clubs and through some retailers.

See also

References

  1. ^ Lulham, Amanda (29 August 2016). "Women's rugby league passes test with flying colours as Cronulla beat Dragons in historic nines match". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  2. ^ Carayannis, Michael (27 August 2016). "The Sharks have beaten the Dragons 16–12 in a historic NRL womens nines match". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  3. ^ Coman, James (11 March 2017). "Women's Nines: Sharks defeat Raiders". Raiders.com.au. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Women's Rugby League World Cup: Australia's Jillaroos beat New Zealand 23–16 in final to claim world title". ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 2 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  5. ^ a b Bungard, Matt (6 December 2017). "NRL 2018: National women's competition set to run next season". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  6. ^ Bungard, Matt; Proszenko, Adrian (6 December 2017). "NRL 2018: Knights, Dragons first to declare bids for licences for women's tournament". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  7. ^ Jennings, Mitch (22 February 2018). "Apps backs Dragons women's NRL bid". Bega District News. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  8. ^ "Dragons confirm interest in women's competition". Dragons.com.au. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  9. ^ Barnsley, Warren (20 December 2017). "New women's NRL excites Jillaroos but more details are needed, say players". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  10. ^ Bollen, Fiona (9 March 2018). "NRL women's comp starts 2018, what we know and don't know about it". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  11. ^ Perry, Jodan (6 December 2017). "NRL Women's Premiership a dream come true for Jillaroos hero Ruan Sims". ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  12. ^ Cavanagh, Chris (6 December 2017). "Melbourne Storm pushing for team in new women's competition". Herald Sun. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  13. ^ "NRL left without women's team out west". Special Broadcasting Service. 17 February 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  14. ^ a b Arnold, Rikki-Lee (19 March 2018). "Broncos win spot in NRL women's competition". news.com.au. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  15. ^ Newton, Alicia (27 March 2018). "Geographic location the focus as NRL women's teams announced". NRL.com. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  16. ^ https://wwos.nine.com.au/2018/02/28/19/27/nine-announce-nrl-season-coverage-for-2018-season
  17. ^ https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/03/27/nrl-holden-womens-premiership-teams-announced/
  18. ^ http://media.gm.com/media/au/en/holden/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/au/en/2018/march/0328_HoldenWP.html
  19. ^ https://www.steeden.com.au/
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