Nambour is a town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. At the 2016 census Nambour had a population of 11,187.
The Brisbane Rugby League Premiership is a rugby league football competition in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was first held in 1922 and for every year until 1997. The competition was reinstated in 2016, replacing the FOGS premiership under the Queensland Cup. The competition consists of Brisbane’s top six rugby league clubs. Each participating team is a feeder club for the Queensland Cup.
The Central Division of the Queensland Rugby League is responsible for the promotion, administration and facilitation of rugby league throughout most of regional Queensland. Regional areas include the Darling Downs, Wide Bay–Burnett, the South West, the Central West, and Fitzroy & Mackay.
Sydney Uni Rugby League Club is a rugby league team currently playing in the NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League and the Sydney Shield competitions. There used to be a team representing the University of Sydney who played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership from 1920–1937, then in the NSWRL Second Division and Metropolitan League competitions from 1963 to 1976.
Rugby league in Australia has been one of New South Wales most popular sports since it started being played there in 1908. It is the dominant winter football code in the states of New South Wales and Queensland. In 2009, it was the most watched sport on Australian television eclipsing the AFL nationally for the first time with an aggregate audience of 128.5 million viewers. The elite club competition is the National Rugby League (NRL), which features ten teams from New South Wales, three teams from Queensland, and one team each from Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.
Benjamin David "Ben" Ross is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. A Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he played in the National Rugby League for the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Penrith Panthers, with whom he won the 2003 NRL Premiership, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Casey McGuire is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. A Queensland State of Origin representative half back, he played his club football in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the Brisbane Broncos and Parramatta Eels, as well as in the Super League for the Catalans Dragons.
The S. G. Ball Cup is a junior rugby league football competition played predominantly in New South Wales, between teams made up of players aged under 18. Teams from Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Auckland also participate. The competition is administered by the New South Wales Rugby League. The competition includes both junior representative teams of NRL and NSW Cup clubs that do not field a team in the NRL competition.
Dan Stains is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He played primarily for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, usually as a second-row, prop and as a hooker.
Ray Higgs is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s. An Australian international and Queensland representative forward, he played club football in the NSWRFL Premiership with Sydney's Parramatta Eels for three seasons between 1975-1977 and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles for one season 1978.
Rugby league has the highest spectator numbers of the various codes of football in New South Wales. It began in Australia in 1907, when the New South Wales Rugby League was formed as a professional competition, following the rules of the Northern Rugby Football Union in England. Since then the state has been one of the major centres of the code; the headquarters of the Australian Rugby League are in New South Wales' largest city, Sydney. The premier state-level league is the New South Wales Cup, involving reserve teams from NSW and Canberra based NRL clubs as well as the first teams from other clubs.
Berks, Bucks & Oxon Premier is a division at level 8 of the English rugby union system featuring teams from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Promoted teams usually move up to Southern Counties North while relegated teams used to drop to the Berks/Bucks & Oxon Championship, although this division has been discontinued as of the end of the 2018–19 season. Each year three teams are picked to take part in the RFU Senior Vase.
Maroochydore Australian Football Club is an Australian rules football club based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland which competes in AFL Queensland leagues in South East Queensland. Their seniors compete in QFA Division 1,their reserves compete in QFA Division 1 Reserves, their thirds compete in QFA Division 4, they also have an Under 18 team which competes in QFA Colts Maroon. They have two women's teams, one competes in the top women's league in Queensland, the QWAFL and they have a women's reserves team which competes in QWFA Division 1.
Joe Boyce is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Townsville Blackhawks in the Queensland Cup. Primarily a lock, he previously played for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League.
The Somerset County Rugby Football Union (SCRFU) is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in the county of Somerset in England. The union is the constituent body of the Rugby Football Union (RFU) for Somerset. The SCRFU administers and organises rugby union clubs and competitions in the Somerset including the county rugby representative teams.
The Queensland Country Rugby Union, or QCRU, is the governing body for the sport of rugby union within most of the state of Queensland in Australia. It is affiliated with the Queensland Rugby Union.
Queensland's Sunshine Coast has sporting teams across national, state, and local levels. Some Coast based clubs trace their history back to the early 20th century.
The following details the year by year events for Sunshine Coast Football in Queensland, since the first recorded game on the North Coast in 1920.
Grant Thorogood is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Brisbane Broncos in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL). He is a member of the Sunshine Coast Team of the Century.
The 1920 North Coast Rugby League season was the first season of rugby league football in the area that is now the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, all of the clubs having changed over from rugby union in March 1920.
