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.
In the 2024 season, the seventeen National Rugby League clubs will have the following reserves arrangements.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
- The PNG Hunters in the Queensland Cup are currently the only club in either state-based competition without an NRL affiliation.
Bold=NSW Cup
Underline=Qld Cup
- "NSW Cup Clubs". New South Wales Rugby League. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Rd.2 Feeder Team Announcement". Melbourne Storm. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "New feeder club for Toyota Cowboys". North Queensland Cowboys. 10 September 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Capras: Titans have missed big chance". Retrieved 1 February 2018.