The Outback Rugby League Cup is a New South Wales Country Rugby League (NSWCRL) Group Competition which is based in Broken Hill in the far west of New South Wales and surrounding districts such as Wilcannia and Menindee.

The competition folded in 1998 but was revived in 2007. ^[1]

Contents 1 Teams 2 History 3 First grade premiership 4 Footnotes

[edit] Teams

The founding clubs of the competition are:

• Broken Hill Central
• Broken Hill South
• Broken Hill West
• Broken Hill North
• Wilcannia Tigers
• Menindee Yabbies

[edit] History

The Outback Rugby League was formed in 2007 after a long absence of regular A-Grade rugby league from Broken Hill. The last regular rugby league competition in the area was in 1997 as the Group 12 competition which also included clubs from Broken Hill, Menindee & Wilcannia.

The new competition features clubs from the same areas. A new club was formed before the opening season, the Wilcannia Tigers. The inaugural competition saw a total of 266 registered players across all grades, from under-sixes up. Broken Hill is traditionally dominated by Australian Rules Football. ^[2]

The 2007 Grand final was a close game between Wilcannia Tigers and Menindee Yabbies. The Yabbies eventually won by one point, 36–35, at Lamb Park in Broken Hill in front of 1,000 spectators.^[3] Recently, for the 2008 Outback Rugby League Season, CFMEU(the major sponsor such teams as the Canberra Raiders) has signed on to become the compoetition's major sponsor from 2008 and beyond. This will be a massive boost for trhe competition, financially speaking.^[4]

[edit] First grade premiership

The premiers of the group competition since 1980^[5]:

Season	Champion	Score	Runners-Up
1980	Broken Hill Saints
1981	Broken Hill Saints
1982	Broken Hill Saints		Menindee
1983	Broken Hill Saints	22-12	Menindee
1984	Broken Hill United	19-0	Broken Hill Saints
1985	Broken Hill United	21-20	Wilcannia Tigers
1986	Wilcannia Boomerangs		Broken Hill United
1987	Broken Hill United	15-12	Wilcannia Boomerangs
1988	Broken Hill United	31-20	Wilcannia Boomerangs
1989	Broken Hill Saints		Broken Hill United
1990	Broken Hill Saints	18-0	Broken Hill United
1991	Wilcannia	34-20	Menindee
1992
1993	Menindee	36-20	Wilcannia
1994	Broken Hill United	46-18	Wilcannia Boomerangs
1995	Broken Hill United	28-20	Wilcannia Boomerangs
1996	Wilcannia Boomerangs	38-34	Broken Hill Geebungs
1997	Wilcannia Boomerangs	56-48	Menindee
1998–2006 - No competition
2007	Menindee Yabbies	36–35	Wilcannia Tigers
2008	Saints

[edit] Footnotes

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