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National Rugby League
Current season, competition or edition: 2024 NRL season
Sport
Rugby league
Founded
1998; 26 years ago (1998)[1]
First season
1998
CEO
Andrew Abdo
Commissioner
Peter V'landys
No. of teams
17[2]
Country
Australia (16 teams) New Zealand (1 team)
Headquarters
Rugby League Central, Sydney, New South Wales
Most recent champion(s)
Penrith Panthers (5th title)
Most titles
South Sydney Rabbitohs (21 titles)
TV partner(s)
Australia: Nine Network Fox League New Zealand: Sky Sport / Prime
Streaming partner(s)
Kayo Sports / 9Now
Sponsor(s)
Telstra
International cup(s)
World Club Challenge
Related competitions
New South Wales Cup Queensland Cup
Official website
NRL.com
The National Rugby League (known as the NRL Telstra Premiership due to sponsorship) is a professional rugby league competition in Australasia which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.
Tracing its origins back to the New South Wales Rugby League, which formed in 1908, rugby league competition in Australia had gone through numerous iterations, including the 1990s Super League war,[3] by the time the NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership between the Australian Rugby League (ARL) and the News Corporation-controlled Super League.[4] The partnership was dissolved in 2012, with control of the NRL going to the re-constituted ARL, which was re-structured with an independent board of directors and renamed the Australian Rugby League Commission.
The season typically runs from March to October, with each team playing 24 matches, with the highest placed team at the end of the regular season awarded the minor premiership. This is followed by a finals series contested between the eight highest placed teams from the regular season. The season culminates in the premiership-deciding NRL Grand Final.[5] The winners play the World Club Challenge against the champions of the Super League.[6] The reigning premiers are the Penrith Panthers, having won their fifth premiership at the end of the 2023 season.
^Official National Rugby League statistics encompass all Sydney first grade competitions, namely the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, Australian Rugby League, Super League, and the present day NRL.
^"Redcliffe Dolphins poised to be unveiled as NRL's 17th team for 2023 season". The Guardian. 11 October 2021.
^Miller, Toby; Geoffrey A. Lawrence; Jim McKay (2001). Globalization and sport: playing the world. SAGE. p. 82. ISBN 9780761959694. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
^Australian Rugby League and National Rugby League. "Rugby league" (PDF). Australian Human Rights Commission Report. hreoc.gov.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
^Schwarz, David (2 September 2009). "Spike TV To Telecast National Rugby League Playoffs and Championship Game". Reuters. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2009.
^"RFL cool on bigger Challenge". Sky Sports. 2 March 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
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South Sydney Rabbitohs (21 titles)