List of rugby union clubs in Australia information
See also: Club Rugby (Australia)
List of rugby union clubs in Australia
Governing body
Rugby Australia
First played
25 July 1839,[1] Sydney, New South Wales
Registered players
82,818 (total) 38,010 (adult)[2]
Clubs
848
Club competitions
Super Rugby
Shute Shield
Queensland Premier Rugby
ACTRU Premier Division
Dewar Shield
Audience records
Single match
109,874 Australia v New Zealand, (Telstra Stadium) 15 July 2000
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The highest level of provincial rugby union in Australia is Super Rugby. There are five Australian teams in this competition, which also features teams from New Zealand and Fiji.
Australia currently has no national club competition. The first attempt at such a competition, the Australian Rugby Championship, was launched in 2007 with eight teams, but lasted only one season before the nation's governing body, the Australian Rugby Union (now Rugby Australia), decided to discontinue the competition due to financial losses. The second and most recent attempt at forming a national domestic league, the National Rugby Championship, was launched in 2014 with nine teams and lasted six years until it was disbanded in 2020. The current top level competitions in Australia are the Shute Shield in Sydney and the Queensland Premier League in Brisbane. Numerous club and representative competitions serve the rugby playing community below these two competitions.
^"History of the ARU". rugby.com.au. Archived from the original on 24 October 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2006.
^International Rugby Board Website:http://www.irb.com/unions/union=11000007/index.html Archived 2012-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
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