National Rugby League

Australasian rugby league football competition

The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which is currently contested by 16 teams based in Australia (in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory), and 1 team based in New Zealand. Expansion teams based in Western Australia (Perth Bears) and Papua New Guinea (Papua New Guinea Chiefs) are set to enter the competition in 2027 and 2028 respectively. Tracing its origins back to the New South Wales Rugby League, which formed in 1908, premier rugby league competition in Australia had gone through numerous iterations, most notably during the Super League war in the 1990s, which resulted in the NRL being formed in 1998 as a joint partnership between the Australian Rugby League (ARL) and the News Corporation-controlled Super League.

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