National Rugby League (NRL) is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL competition (sometimes referred to as the Telstra Premiership for sponsorship purposes) is contested by 16 teams, 15 based in Australia and one based in New Zealand, and is the Southern Hemisphere's elite rugby league championship.
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Match scheduled:
27-08-2010 from 11:35 until 13:30
Round #25 - NRL Telstra Premiership 2010
Rugby league football is one of the most popular sports in Australia. It is the most dominant winter sport on the eastern seaboard of Australia, including the states of New South Wales and Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory which comprise around half of the country's population.It is the most watched sport on Australian television, with an aggregate audience of 128.5 million viewers in 2009. The elite club competition is the National Rugby League (NRL), which features ten teams from New South Wales, three teams from Queensland, and one team each from Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.
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Australia has a rich history of rugby league, first taking up the sport in 1908 alongside people in Britain and New Zealand. The rule changes over the decades that have made it evolve into a different game to the existing rugby football have been partly instigated in Australia as well. The country has been dominant over the other rugby league-playing nations for many years, but enjoys a strong rivalry with New Zealand. CLCK HERE TO LIVE WATCH>>>>>>Rabbitohs vs Parramatta Eels
By the time England's new "Northern Union game" arrived in Australia it was fundamentally different to Rugby Union football, with lineouts, rucks and two players from each team having already been removed, and the play-the-ball introduced to hasten the game's flow. A similar schism to that which occurred in England, and for similar reasons, opened up in the rugby union establishment of Australia, seeing the term "rugby league" first used for the new game as in the rest of the world. In 1907, at the instigation of the famous test cricketer Victor Trumper, at a meeting in Bateman's Crystal Hotel in Sydney, New South Wales, the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL) was formed as a professional organisation. Players were immediately recruited for the new game, and despite the threat of immediate and lifetime expulsion from the rugby union, the NSWRFL managed to recruit Herbert "Dally" Messenger, the most famous rugby footballer in Sydney at that time. Rugby league then went on to displace rugby union as the primary football code in New South Wales
