Representative rugby league team for Queensland, Australia
Queensland Maroons
Team information
Nicknames
Maroons Cane toads
Governing body
Queensland Rugby League
Head coach
Billy Slater
Captain
Daly Cherry-Evans
Most caps
Cameron Smith (42)
Top try-scorer
Edward Collins (20)[1]
Top point-scorer
Johnathan Thurston (220)
Home stadium
Suncorp Stadium (52,500)
Uniforms
First colours
Team results
First game
Queensland 34–12 New Zealand (Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane; 16 May 1908)
First State of Origin game
Queensland 20–10 New South Wales (Lang Park, Brisbane; 8 July 1980)
Biggest win
Queensland 52–6 New South Wales (Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane; 8 July 2015)
Biggest defeat
New South Wales 69–5 Queensland (Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney; 4 June 1957)
The Queensland rugby league team represents the Australian state of Queensland in rugby league football. Nicknamed the "Maroons" after the colour of their jersey, they play three times a year against arch-rivals New South Wales in the State of Origin series. The team is currently coached by Billy Slater and captained by Daly Cherry-Evans, and is administered by the Queensland Rugby League. They play all of their home matches at Brisbane's Lang Park (known due to naming rights as Suncorp Stadium).
Since 1908, a rugby league team representing Queensland has been assembled from players based in the state to compete annually against New South Wales. The team used to play matches against other high-profile foreign and domestic touring teams, but has not played anyone other than New South Wales in several decades. From 1980 onwards, when Queensland was first allowed to select players of local origin even if they were currently at clubs outside its borders, the team's success rate against New South Wales improved dramatically. From 1980-87, clubs from both the Brisbane Rugby League and the NSWRL provided players for the side. Since the creation of the Brisbane Broncos in 1988, Maroons players have only been selected from the NSWRL (until 1995) and its successor competition, the National Rugby League, with the sole exception of Game III 2001 when Allan Langer was selected from the Super League. As of 2023, the Maroons have won fourteen out of the past eighteen series, including the most recent series and a record-breaking eight successive State of Origin victories between 2006 and 2013.
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Queensland 34–12 New Zealand 
