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NRL/NSWRL premiers by year

Every top grade rugby league premiership since 1908. 1997 lists both premiers because the game split that year, Newcastle in the ARL and Brisbane in Super League.

No premiership is shown for 2007 or 2009. Melbourne’s titles from those seasons were stripped for salary cap breaches and remain vacant in the official record, so they stay vacant here too.

116 years listed, 1908 to 2025. That is 117 premierships in all, because some years have more than one.

Earliest year listed: South Sydney Rabbitohs (1908).

Latest year listed: Brisbane Broncos (2025).

20 different club names appear on the list, 1908 to 2025.

Every NRL/NSWRL premier since 1908, year by year

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 2020s

Year

Champion

Competition

2025

Brisbane Broncos

NRL

2024

Penrith Panthers

NRL

2023

Penrith Panthers

NRL

2022

Penrith Panthers

NRL

2021

Penrith Panthers

NRL

2020

Melbourne Storm

NRL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 2010s

Year

Champion

Competition

2019

Sydney Roosters

NRL

2018

Sydney Roosters

NRL

2017

Melbourne Storm

NRL

2016

Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks

NRL

2015

North Queensland Cowboys

NRL

2014

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NRL

2013

Sydney Roosters

NRL

2012

Melbourne Storm

NRL

2011

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

NRL

2010

St George Illawarra Dragons

NRL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 2000s

Year

Champion

Competition

2008

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

NRL

2006

Brisbane Broncos

NRL

2005

Wests Tigers

NRL

2004

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

NRL

2003

Penrith Panthers

NRL

2002

Sydney Roosters

NRL

2001

Newcastle Knights

NRL

2000

Brisbane Broncos

NRL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 1990s

Year

Champion

Competition

1999

Melbourne Storm

NRL

1998

Brisbane Broncos

NRL

1997

Brisbane Broncos

Super League

1997

Newcastle Knights

ARL

1996

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

ARL

1995

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

ARL

1994

Canberra Raiders

NSWRL

1993

Brisbane Broncos

NSWRL

1992

Brisbane Broncos

NSWRL

1991

Penrith Panthers

NSWRL

1990

Canberra Raiders

NSWRL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 1980s

Year

Champion

Competition

1989

Canberra Raiders

NSWRL

1988

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

NSWRL

1987

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

NSWRL

1986

Parramatta Eels

NSWRL

1985

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

NSWRL

1984

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

NSWRL

1983

Parramatta Eels

NSWRFL

1982

Parramatta Eels

NSWRFL

1981

Parramatta Eels

NSWRFL

1980

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

NSWRFL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 1970s

Year

Champion

Competition

1979

St George

NSWRFL

1978

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

NSWRFL

1977

St George

NSWRFL

1976

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

NSWRFL

1975

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

1974

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

1973

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

NSWRFL

1972

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

NSWRFL

1971

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1970

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 1960s

Year

Champion

Competition

1969

Balmain

NSWRFL

1968

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1967

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1966

St George

NSWRFL

1965

St George

NSWRFL

1964

St George

NSWRFL

1963

St George

NSWRFL

1962

St George

NSWRFL

1961

St George

NSWRFL

1960

St George

NSWRFL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 1950s

Year

Champion

Competition

1959

St George

NSWRFL

1958

St George

NSWRFL

1957

St George

NSWRFL

1956

St George

NSWRFL

1955

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1954

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1953

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1952

Western Suburbs

NSWRFL

1951

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1950

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 1940s

Year

Champion

Competition

1949

St George

NSWRFL

1948

Western Suburbs

NSWRFL

1947

Balmain

NSWRFL

1946

Balmain

NSWRFL

1945

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

1944

Balmain

NSWRFL

1943

Newtown

NSWRFL

1942

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

NSWRFL

1941

St George

NSWRFL

1940

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 1930s

Year

Champion

Competition

1939

Balmain

NSWRFL

1938

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

NSWRFL

1937

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

1936

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

1935

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

1934

Western Suburbs

NSWRFL

1933

Newtown

NSWRFL

1932

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1931

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1930

Western Suburbs

NSWRFL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 1920s

Year

Champion

Competition

1929

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1928

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1927

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1926

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1925

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1924

Balmain

NSWRFL

1923

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

1922

North Sydney

NSWRFL

1921

North Sydney

NSWRFL

1920

Balmain

NSWRFL

NRL/NSWRL premiers in the 1910s

Year

Champion

Competition

1919

Balmain

NSWRFL

1918

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1917

Balmain

NSWRFL

1916

Balmain

NSWRFL

1915

Balmain

NSWRFL

1914

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1913

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

1912

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

1911

Eastern Suburbs

NSWRFL

1910

Newtown

NSWRFL

NRL/NSWRL premiers from 1908 to 1909

Year

Champion

Competition

1909

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

1908

South Sydney Rabbitohs

NSWRFL

Most NRL/NSWRL premierships since 1908

How we counted: each line in the year by year tables counts for the club name exactly as the table writes it, so a club the table writes two ways counts separately under each. The table does not always use the name of the day, so a renamed club may sit under one name or several. 1997 has more than one line, and every club named in that year gets one premiership. Nothing is listed for 2007 and 2009, so no premiership is counted for those years.

Out in front: South Sydney Rabbitohs, 21 premierships.

Club

Premierships under this name

Years

South Sydney Rabbitohs

21

1908, 1909, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 2014

St George

15

1941, 1949, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1977, 1979

Balmain

11

1915, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1924, 1939, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1969

Eastern Suburbs

11

1911, 1912, 1913, 1923, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1945, 1974, 1975

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

8

1938, 1942, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1995, 2004

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

8

1972, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1987, 1996, 2008, 2011

Brisbane Broncos

7

1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2025

Penrith Panthers

6

1991, 2003, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Melbourne Storm

4

1999, 2012, 2017, 2020

Parramatta Eels

4

1981, 1982, 1983, 1986

Sydney Roosters

4

2002, 2013, 2018, 2019

Western Suburbs

4

1930, 1934, 1948, 1952

Canberra Raiders

3

1989, 1990, 1994

Newtown

3

1910, 1933, 1943

Newcastle Knights

2

1997, 2001

North Sydney

2

1921, 1922

4 more club names appear once.

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Each table was verified against at least two independent sources, and the checks run on every build: winner lists are audited answer by answer, split titles and vacated seasons are pinned so they can never quietly change, and a blank cell means the detail was never verified rather than papered over. Spot something that looks wrong anyway? The Report a bug button below lands straight in our inbox.

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