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Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Knock On Effect NSW Cup | |
Formerly | Reserve Grade Presidents Cup NSWRL First Division NSWRL Premier League Intrust Super Premiership Canterbury Cup NSW Cup |
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Sport | Rugby League |
Founded | 1908 |
First season | 1908 |
Owner(s) | NSWRL |
Director | Nick Politis, Deborah Healey |
President | Dr George Peponis OAM |
No. of teams | 13 |
Countries | Australia New Zealand |
Most recent champion(s) | South Sydney Rabbitohs (2023) |
Most titles | South Sydney Rabbitohs (21 titles) |
TV partner(s) | NSWRL TV Fox League Kayo Sports 9Now (Grand Final only) |
Sponsor(s) | The Knock-On Effect |
Level on pyramid | Level 2 |
Related competitions | National Rugby League NRL State Championship Hostplus Cup |
Official website | NSWRL |
The NSW Cup, currently known as the Knock-On Effect NSW Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a rugby league competition for clubs in New South Wales. The competition has a history dating back to the NSWRFL's origins in 1908, starting off as a reserve grade competition, and 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. The competition is the oldest continuous rugby league competition in the Australia.
The NSW Cup 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 no longer field teams in the NRL competition, and teams that have not fielded teams in the NRL competition. The North Sydney Bears are the only team to have competed in every season, since the start of the competition since 1908.
Clubs
New South Wales Cup teams
The New South Wales Cup consists of 13 teams, 11 from New South Wales, and 1 each from Auckland and from Australian Capital Territory. The league operates on a single group system, with no divisions or conferences and no relegation and promotion from other leagues. A number of clubs in the New South Wales Cup have an affiliation with a team in the Australian national competition, the National Rugby League, with most of the clubs in the being reserve grade teams to the senior grade teams of the NRL.
Bold indicates it is the club's highest level of competition.
*: The season the team joined competition in its current form and consecutive tenure.
+: Current affiliation between Cronulla and Newtown since 2015.
†:Does not include games played as NRL Curtain raisers
(A) - Affiliated team
(R.G) = Reserve Grade team
Former teams – NSW Cup
Of the 26 former clubs in the 21st century, 1 was each based in Australian Capital Territory, Queensland and Victoria, 2 were based in Auckland Region and the other 23 former clubs were based in New South Wales.