2019 NRL Women's season

The 2019 NRL Women's Premiership is the second season of professional women's rugby league in Australia.

2019 NRL Women's Premiership
Teams4

Teams
Colours Club Season Head coach Captain(s)
 Brisbane Broncos 2nd season Kelvin Wright[1] Ali Brigginshaw[2]
 New Zealand Warriors 2nd season Luisa Avaiki[3] Laura Mariu[4]
 St. George Illawarra Dragons 2nd season Daniel Lacey[5] Sam Bremner[6]
 Sydney Roosters 2nd season Adam Hartigan[7] Simaima Taufa[8]

Pre-season
Home Score Away Match Information
Date and Time (Local) Venue Referees Crowd -
Brisbane Broncos Papua New Guinea Orchids 2 September 2019, 1:30pm Port Moresby -

Regular season
See also: 2019 NRL Women's season results

The inaugural season will operate under a round-robin format, with games played as curtain-raisers to the 2018 NRL Finals Series. The top two finishing teams will then contest the Grand Final, which is to be played before the men's Grand Final on 30 September.[9]

Ladder
Pos Team Pld W D L B PF PA PD Pts
1 Brisbane Broncos 320104214+284
2 St. George Illawarra Dragons 320105436+184
3 New Zealand Warriors 320103246-144
4 Sydney Roosters 300302860-320

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 Broncos 2 4 4
2 St. George Illawarra Dragons 0 2 4
3 New Zealand Warriors 2 2 4
4 Sydney Roosters 0 0 0

Grand Final

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 Women's Grand Final 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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