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2009's regular season attendance figures were the highest recorded in Australian rugby league history, with a total of 3,081,849. This figure bettered the previous record set by the 1995 Winfield Cup 's regular season (3,061,338 in a 20 team competition) and also beat the Telstra Premiership's previous best of 3,024,149 set in 2007 .
This is a list of club owners in the National Rugby League (NRL), the top league of professional rugby league clubs in Australasia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Current clubs
The National Rugby League (NRL), contested between 16 teams from Australia and New Zealand, will hold its 102nd season in 2009. The Melbourne Storm won this competition in 2009, winning the final 23–16 against the Parramatta Eels. This title was later stripped from the Storm due to salary cap breaches exposed by the NRL in 2010.
As 2008 NRL premiers, the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles started their new season with the 2009 World Club Challenge match in England against Super League's 2008 champions, the Leeds Rhinos. They defeated the Rhinos 28 - 20, putting an end to England club football's 5-year hold on the World Club Challenge trophy before preparing for the start of ...
The teams listed above, with the exception of Adelaide, Hunter, Gold Coast, Northern Eagles and South Queensland still participate in lower level competitions, including the NSW Cup, S.G. Ball and Harold Matthews competitions.
Winning Team Defeated Team Score Venue Date 1: 40: Manly Warringah Sea Eagles: Melbourne Storm: 40–0: ANZ Stadium: 5 October 2008 2: 38: Eastern Suburbs Roosters: St George Dragons: 38–0: Sydney Cricket Ground: 20 September 1975 3: 32: North Sydney: Glebe: 35–3: Sydney Cricket Ground: 6 September 1922 4: 29: Balmain: South Sydney: 33–4 ...
BYE Round for: 6 teams - Brisbane Broncos, Gold Coast Titans, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, Melbourne Storm, North Queensland Cowboys and Sydney Roosters. Source: "NRL 2009 Round 12". Rugby League Project
This changed in 1982 when a Wollongong club and a Canberra based team joined. In 1988 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 ...