1997 Canberra Raiders season

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1997 Canberra Raiders season
Team information
Coach Mal Meninga
Captain
Stadium Bruce Stadium
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The 1997 Canberra Raiders season was the 16th in the club's history. They competed in the Super League's Telstra Cup and World Club Championship. Coached by Mal Meninga and captained by Ricky Stuart, the Raiders finished third in the Telstra Cup regular season, and were eliminated in the Preliminary Final. The club did not make the finals of the World Club Championship, despite winning five of their six matches.

Canberra Raiders rugby league football club

The Canberra Raiders are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the national capital city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. They have competed in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership since 1982. Over this period the club has won 3 premierships,, received 1 wooden spoon and had a total of 15 of its players selected to don the green and gold for Australia national rugby league team. The Raiders' current home ground is Canberra Stadium in Bruce, Australian Capital Territory. Previously, the team played home matches at Seiffert Oval in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, with the move to the AIS Stadium in Bruce taking place in 1990. The official symbol for the Canberra Raiders is the Viking. The Viking, also a mascot at Raiders' games, is known as Victor the Viking.

Super League (Australia)

Super League was an Australian rugby league football administrative body that conducted professional competition in Australia and New Zealand for one season in 1997. Along with Super League of Europe, it was created by News Corporation during the Super League war which arose following an unsuccessful attempt to purchase the pay television rights to rugby league in Australia. After two years of legal battles the competition was played for a single season in 1997 alongside the rival Australian Rugby League (ARL) competition before the two merged in 1998 to form the National Rugby League (NRL).

The 1997 Super League season was a breakaway professional rugby league football competition in Australia and the only one to be run by the News Limited-controlled Super League organisation. Eight teams which had broken away from the existing Australian Rugby League, in addition to the newly created Hunter Mariners and Adelaide Rams, competed over eighteen weekly rounds of the regular season. The top five teams then played a series of knock-out finals which culminated in a September grand final played in Brisbane between the Brisbane Broncos and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.

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Telstra Cup

TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane 181413481283+19829
2 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland 181206403230+17324
3 Canberra colours.svg Canberra181107436337+9922
4 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 181008453447+620
5 Penrith colours.svg Penrith 18909431462-3118
6 Hunter colours.svg Hunter 187011350363-1314
7 Auckland colours.svg Auckland 187011332406-7414
8 Western Reds colours.svg Perth 187011321456-13514
9 Adelaide colours.svg Adelaide 186111303402-9913
10 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland 185211328452-12412

Ladder progression

  • Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 5.
  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
  • Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished in last place on the ladder in that round
Team123456789101112131415161718
1 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 14 16 18 19 19 19 21 23 25 27 29
2 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland 2 4 6 6 6 8 8 8 10 10 12 14 16 16 18 20 22 24
3 Canberra colours.svg Canberra 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 14 16 16 18 20 22
4 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 2 2 4 4 4 6 8 10 10 12 14 14 16 16 18 20 20 20
5 Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2017 colours.svg Penrith 2 4 6 8 8 10 10 12 12 12 12 14 16 16 16 16 18 18
6 Hunter colours.svg Hunter 0 0 0 2 2 2 4 6 6 6 8 10 12 14 14 14 14 14
7 Auckland colours.svg Auckland 0 2 2 2 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 8 10 10 12 14
8 Western Reds colours.svg Perth 0 2 2 4 6 6 8 8 8 10 10 12 12 12 12 14 14 14
9 Adelaide colours.svg Adelaide 0 0 2 4 4 4 4 6 8 9 9 9 11 11 11 11 11 13
10 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 6 7 8 8 8 10 12 12 12 12

Finals

 
 Qualifying/Elimination FinalMajor/Minor Semi FinalPreliminary FinalGrand Final
                   
1 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane 34 
   Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla 2     Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane 26
2 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla 22   Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla 10  Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla 8
3 Canberra colours.svg Canberra 18    Canberra colours.svg Canberra 4 
Canberra colours.svg Canberra 32
4 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 14  Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2017 colours.svg Penrith 12 
5 Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2017 colours.svg Penrith 15

World Club Championship

Pool A

Club Played Won Lost Drawn For Against Diff. Points
Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 6 6 0 0 270 52 218 12
Auckland colours.svg Auckland Warriors 6 6 0 0 268 82 186 12
Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla Sharks 6 6 0 0 230 54 176 12
Penrith colours.svg Penrith Panthers 6 6 0 0 256 120 136 12
Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders 6 5 1 0 302 108 194 10
Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury Bulldogs 6 4 2 0 218 121 97 8

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