The NRL Women's Premiership, known as the NRLW, is a rugby league competition for female players in Australasia, run by the National Rugby League and contested by a subset of its clubs. It grew out of women's nines curtain-raiser matches in 2016 and 2017 and was announced in December 2017, with the first season following in 2018 as a short round-robin ending in a grand final played on the same day as the men's grand final. The Brisbane Broncos won the first three minor premierships and premierships. The competition expanded to six clubs in 2021, to ten in 2023 with Canberra, Cronulla, North Queensland and Wests Tigers, and to twelve in 2025 with the Canterbury Bulldogs and the return of the New Zealand Warriors. Its clubs come from New South Wales, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.
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Currently, the league contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.
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Currently, the league contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.
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The league is run by the National Rugby League (NRL) and is contested by a subset of clubs from that competition.
History, 2021 to present
The 2023 NRLW season ran for 11 weeks with 9 rounds, Semi-finals and a Grand Final
History, 2017 to 2020
had won bids to participate in the inaugural NRL Women's competition, commencing in September 2018
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Currently, the league contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.
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plays at five-eighth for New Zealand Warriors in the NRLW
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