NSWRL Premier League
Current season, competition or edition: 2016 Intrust Super Premiership NSW
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Intrust Super Premiership NSW Logo (Since 2016)
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| Formerly | New South Wales Cup, NSWRL Premier League |
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| Sport | Rugby League |
| Founded | 1908 |
| Inaugural season | 1908 |
| Owner(s) | NSWRL |
| CEO | David Trodden |
| Director | Nick Politis, Deborah Healey |
| President | Dr George Peponis OAM |
| No. of teams | 13 |
| Countries | Australia, New Zealand |
| Most recent champion(s) |
Illawarra Cutters |
| Most titles | South Sydney Rabbitohs (20) |
| TV partner(s) | Fox Sports |
| Sponsor(s) | Intrust Super |
| Related competitions |
Queensland Cup |
| Official website | Official Website |
The Intrust Super Premiership NSW is a rugby league competition for clubs in New South Wales previously known as the New South Wales Cup, and NSWRL Premier League. It has a history dating back to the NSWRFL's origins in 1908, starting off as a reserve grade competition. It is now the premier open age competition in the state. The New South Wales Cup, along with the Queensland Cup, acts as a feeder competition to the National Rugby League premiership.
It is contested by reserve squads of NSW-based NRL teams and also includes sides representing teams that once competed at the first grade level in the NSWRL Premiership but do not field teams in the NRL competition. The North Sydney Bears are the only team to have competed in every season of the competition since 1908.
In 2016, 12 clubs are fielding teams in the Intrust Super Premiership.
*: The season the team joined is in the NSW Cup/Intrust Super Premiership, not any other competition before this.
(Returned to North Sydney after NRL Northern Eagles joint venture failure)
† The club also competed in the 1997 Super League (Australia) season reserve-grade competition.
The New South Wales Cup, run by the NSWRL, has been known by a variety of names and operated in several different ways since the inception of the NSWRL Premiership in 1908. Between 1908 and 1996, the competition was known as Reserve Grade and was competed for almost exclusively by reserve squads of each of the NSWRL Premiership Clubs, competing with that Club's name and colours. With the advent of the Super League war, and the resultant split competition in 1997, the NSWRL reconfigured the competition as the Presidents Cup. From 2002 until 2007, the competition was known as the NSWRL Premier League until it was reorganised into its present form.
With the competitions having merged back together, and with six NSWRL Premiership clubs having merged into three new NRL clubs (St. George Dragons and Illawarra Steelers; North Sydney Bears and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles; Balmain Tigers and Western Suburbs Magpies) the competition became known as the First Division and included these sides competing under their original name and colours.
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