The 1988 NSWRL season was the 81st season of professional rugby league football in Australia, and saw the first expansion of the New South Wales Rugby League Premiership outside the borders of New South Wales, and another expansion outside of Sydney, with the addition of three new teams: the Brisbane Broncos, Newcastle Knights and Gold Coast-Tweed Giants. The largest NSWRL premiership yet, sixteen clubs competed during the 1988 season, with the J J Giltinan Shield for minor premiers going to Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. The finals culminated in a grand final for the Winfield Cup between the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Balmain Tigers. This season NSWRL teams also competed for the 1988 Panasonic Cup.
The 1988NSWRLseason was the 81st season of professional rugby league football in Australia, and saw the first expansion of the New South Wales Rugby...
Cup 2min TVC NSWRLseason 1990 at rugbyleagueproject.com 1990 J J Giltinan Shield and Winfield Cup at rleague.com[dead link] NSWRLseason 1990 at rugbyleagueproject...
vying for the five-eighth position with Terry Lamb. At the end of the 1988NSWRLseason, Lyons made his international début when he was selected on the bench...
The 1989 NSWRLseason was the 82nd season of professional rugby league football in Australia. Sixteen clubs competed for the New South Wales Rugby League's...
The 1994 NSWRLseason (known as the 1994 Winfield Cup Premiership due to sponsorship from Winfield) was the eighty-seventh season of professional rugby...
first grade debut for the Balmain Tigers in Round 3 of the 1988NSWRLseason. That season, he came off the bench in the Tigers' Grand Final loss to the...
Cricket Ground, had been built in 1987 and opened in time for the 1988NSWRLseason. The SFS was described in its early days as a white elephant and lacking...
also took place during the season. Having decided in May that a team from Auckland would join the premiership in 1995, the NSWRL announced in November that...
out for the rest of the 1988NSWRLseason. Meninga's broken arms saw him play only 17 games for the Raiders in 1987 and 1988. [citation needed] His third...
The Canberra Raiders competed in the NSWRL from 1982 until 1994, the ARL from 1995 to 1996, the Super League in 1997, and the NRL from 1998 until the...
held in Beatenberg, Switzerland. 1988 Great Britain Lions tour 1988 New Zealand rugby league season The 1988NSWRLseason sees the debuts of three new franchises:...
The 1987 NSWRLseason was the 80th season of professional rugby league football in Australia. Thirteen clubs competed for the New South Wales Rugby League...
Rampling (Eastern Suburbs). The Giants only won 4 matches during the 1988NSWRLseason. Their first victory was by 25–22 against the Brisbane Broncos in...
July 1988 Langer played for Australia in their record 62-point win over Papua New Guinea, scoring two tries. At the end of the 1988NSWRLseason Langer...
The 1991 NSWRLseason was the eighty-fourth season of professional rugby league football in Australia. This year the New South Wales Rugby League experimented...
Matterson, Gene Miles and Kerrod Walters. The team made their debut in the NSWRL's1988 Winfield Cup premiership against reigning premiers, the Manly-Warringah...
League Tables - Season 1984 Results:1981-90 at rabbitohs.com.au 1984 J J Giltinan Shield and Winfield Cup at rleague.com[dead link] NSWRLseason 1984 at rugbyleagueproject...
enter the NSWRL competition, the first major attempt was in the 1950s. It made a much more serious attempt for entry into the 1967 season but were blocked...
100 or more tries in the National Rugby League and its predecessors, the NSWRL, ARL and Super League premierships. Players still currently active are listed...
Fullback Gary Belcher became the first Raider to be the NSWRL's leading point scorer in 1988 with 218 points (10 tries and 89 goals). 1989 also saw the...
The 1993 NSWRLseason (known as the 1993 Winfield Cup Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the eighty-sixth season of professional rugby league football...
and St. George clubs. This seasonNSWRL teams also competed for the 1985 National Panasonic Cup. Twenty-six regular season rounds were played from March...
the direct full member clubs of the NSWRL. = Balmain Tigers and Western Suburbs Magpies merged after 1999 season to form Wests Tigers = Illawarra Steelers...
Brisbane Broncos consortium won the licence and the team entered the NSWRL in 1988. As a result, the standard of the Brisbane Rugby League decreased, and...
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Canterbury-Bankstown (6th title)
Cronulla-Sutherland (1st title)
Gary Belcher (218)