1983 KB Cup

In 1983 KB Cup was the name of the annual mid-week knockout rugby league competition. The naming rights sponsor was Tooth and Co.'s product KB Lager. The tournament was played from April to August 1983, culminating in the final between Sydney clubs Manly-Warringah and Cronulla-Sutherland.

Format

The tenth midweek cup competition operated on a straight knock-out format consisting of 18 teams. Central Districts (NZ) won the inter-district championship in 1982 and therefore replaced South Island (NZ) in the competition.

The competing teams were the 14 Sydney premiership teams (Balmain, Canberra, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cronulla-Sutherland, Eastern Suburbs, Illawarra, Manly-Warringah, Newtown, North Sydney, Parramatta, Penrith, St George, South Sydney and Western Suburbs), Combined Brisbane, Central Districts (NZ), NSW Country and QLD Country.

4 teams played in a Preliminary (or qualifying) round. They were Balmain, Canberra, Manly-Warringah and Parramatta.

Preliminary round

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
13/04/83	Manly-Warringah (Ribot try, P.Blake field goal)	5	Parramatta	0	Leichhardt Oval
20/04/83	Canberra (O'Callaghan 2, Keir, Spears tries, Giteau 3 goals)	22	Balmain (Lane 2, Lawson tries, Filipaina 4 goals)	20	Leichhardt Oval	Chris O'Sullivan - Canberra

Round 1

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
27/04/83	Canterbury-Bankstown (Leis, Conlon tries, Conlon 3 goals)	14	Penrith (Martin, Izzard tries, Marshall goal)	10	Newcastle ISC	Garry Hughes - Canterbury-Bankstown
11/05/83	Newtown (Doyle 5, Sigsworth, Wilson, Ellis, Bird tries, Wilson 7 goals)	50	Central Districts (NZ)	0	Leichhardt Oval	Chris Doyle - Newtown
18/05/83	Combined Brisbane	38	North Sydney	18	Lang Park	Wally Lewis - Combined Brisbane
18/05/83	Manly-Warringah	78	QLD Country	4	Lang Park	Ian Schubert - Manly-Warringah
25/05/83	NSW Country	20	South Sydney	12	Leichhardt Oval	Ross Gibson - NSW Country
1/06/83	Cronulla-Sutherland (Beckett 2, Gardner, Withall tries, D.Sorensen 4 goals)	24	St George (Rogers try, Gearin 2 goals)	8	Leichhardt Oval	Rowland Beckett - Cronulla-Sutherland
8/06/83	Eastern Suburbs (Michael, Grounds 2, Walford, Eden tries, Eden 4 goals)	32	Canberra (Wurth 2, Spears tries, Giteau 2 goals)	16	Leichhardt Oval	Mike Eden - Eastern Suburbs
15/06/83	Western Suburbs (Harris, Greene tries, Greene goal)	10	Illawarra (McKellar try)	4	Leichhardt Oval	David Greene - Western Suburbs

Quarter finals

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
22/06/83	Eastern Suburbs (Eden 3, Walford 2 tries, Eden 5 goals)	30	Newtown (Speechley try, Wilson 4 goals)	12	Leichhardt Oval	Kevin Hastings - Eastern Suburbs
29/06/83	Cronulla-Sutherland (Nixon 2, Mullane, O'Connor, D.Sorensen, Lane tries, Hardy 5 goals)	34	Western Suburbs (S.Gale, T.Lamb tries, Greene 2 goals)	12	Leichhardt Oval	Scott Gale - Western Suburbs
13/07/83	Manly-Warringah (Sigsworth, Walker tries, Sigsworth goal)	10	Canterbury-Bankstown (Conlon 2 goals, C.Mortimer field goal)	5	Leichhardt Oval	Alan Thompson - Manly-Warringah
20/07/83	Combined Brisbane (Brennan 3, Lindenberg 2, Meninga, Paterson, Miles, Tessman tries, Meninga 6, Lewis 3 goals)	54	NSW Country (McCartney, Kearney tries, Elwin 3 goals)	14	Leichhardt Oval	Gene Miles - Combined Brisbane

Semi finals

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
27/07/83	Manly-Warringah (P.Blake 2, Close, Windshuttle tries, Eadie 3 goals, P.Blake field goal)	23	Combined Brisbane (Brennan, Jones tries, Meninga 3 goals)	14	Lang Park	Graham Eadie - Manly-Warringah
3/08/83	Cronulla-Sutherland (Gardner 2, Anderson tries)	12	Eastern Suburbs (Neil try, Eden 3 goals)	10	Leichhardt Oval	Greg Nixon - Cronulla-Sutherland

Final

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
10/8/83	Manly-Warringah (Eadie 2, Ryan, Close, Cleal tries, Eadie 3 goals)	26	Cronulla-Sutherland (Ettingshausen try, Hardy goal)	6	Leichhardt Oval	Paul Vautin - Manly-Warringah

Sources

• http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/aus/nsw/sum/nsw1983.htm