2019 NRL Women's season

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2019 NRL Women's Premiership
Teams4
PremiersBrisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos (2nd title)
Minor premiersBrisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos (2nd title)
Top points scorer(s)St. George colours.svg Maddie Studdon (16)
Top try-scorer(s)St. George colours.svg Jessica Sergis (3)
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The 2019 NRL Women's Premiership was the second season of professional women's rugby league in Australia.

Teams[]

Colours Club Season Head coach Captain(s)
Brisbane colours.svg
 Brisbane Broncos 2nd season [1] Ali Brigginshaw[2]
New Zealand colours.svg
 New Zealand Warriors 2nd season [3] Laura Mariu[4]
St. George colours.svg
 St. George Illawarra Dragons 2nd season [5] Sam Bremner[6]
Eastern Suburbs colours.svg
 Sydney Roosters 2nd season [7] Simaima Taufa[8]

Pre-season[]

Home Score Away Match Information
Date and Time (Local) Venue Referees Crowd
Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 14–0 Papua New Guinea colours.svg Papua New Guinea Orchids 31 August 2019, 4:00pm PNG Football Stadium

Regular season[]

See also: 2019 NRL Women's season results

The season again operated under a round-robin format, with games played as curtain-raisers to the 2019 NRL Finals Series as well as two standalone matches. The top two finishing teams will then contest the Grand Final, which is to be played before the men's Grand Final on 6 Octogber.[9]

Ladder[]

2019 NRL Women's season
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  • t
Pos Team Pld W D L B PF PA PD Pts
1 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 3 2 0 1 0 42 14 +28 4
2 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 3 2 0 1 0 54 36 +18 4
3 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 3 2 0 1 0 32 46 -14 4
4 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 3 0 0 3 0 28 60 -32 0


Ladder progression[]

  • Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top two.
  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
  • Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.
Team 1 2 3
1 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 2 4 4
2 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 0 2 4
3 New Zealand colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 2 2 4
4 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 0 0 0

Grand Final[]

See also:

Postseason[]

In October 2018, NRL announced the inaugural edition of Rugby League World Cup 9s in Western Sydney on 18–19 October 2019, featuring 12 international men's teams and 4 women's teams.[10] This would be around one month after the and replaced the Auckland Nines which had been run as a preseason tournament in previous years.

References[]

  1. ^ Newton, Alicia (14 May 2019). "Kelvin Wright appointed coach of NRLW Broncos". NRL.com. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Broncos Name NRL Women's Captains". Brisbane Broncos. 29 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Meet Luisa Avaiki - NRL women's premiership head coach" – via www.warriors.kiwi.
  4. ^ "Warriors captain Laura Mariu sees big gain from Kiwi pain". National Rugby League. 6 September 2018.
  5. ^ Jennings, Mitch (22 March 2018). "Lacey named Dragons coach". Illawarra Mercury.
  6. ^ "Bremner to captain Dragons' Women's Premiership team". St George Illawarra Dragons. 24 August 2018.
  7. ^ "NRLW Squad Update | Round 1". Sydney Roosters. 7 September 2018.
  8. ^ "Simaima Taufa named captain of Women's Premiership team". Sydney Roosters. 1 September 2018.
  9. ^ "NRLW to take centre stage with stand-alone matches". National Rugby League. 15 August 2019.
  10. ^ "RLIF welcomes announcement of Downers Rugby League World Cup 9s". nrl.com. RLIF. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019.

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