Jersey Flegg Cup

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Jersey Flegg Cup
SportRugby league
First season1961
Owner(s)NSWRL
CEODavid Trodden
No. of teams14
CountriesAustralia, New Zealand, Fiji
Most recent
champion(s)		 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs (2023)
Most titles Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs (11 titles)
Related
competitions		NRL Under-20s
Hastings Deering Colts
Official websiteJersey Flegg

The Jersey Flegg Cup is a junior rugby league competition played in New South Wales, Australia, contested among teams made up of players aged 21 or under. The competition is administered by the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL), and is named for Eastern Suburbs foundation player and prominent administrator of the game, Harry "Jersey" Flegg.

History[edit]

The Jersey Flegg Cup began in 1961 as an under-19 age group competition and was originally played over 9–12 weeks early in the season, alongside the SG Ball Cup and Harold Matthews Cup during the NSWRL's junior representative season. In 1998, with the advent of the National Rugby League (NRL), the competition switched to the current under-20 age limit and was played over a full season, running alongside the senior NRL competition and culminating with the Grand Final held on the same day as the NRL Grand Final.[1]

The competition ceased at the end of the 2007 season to make way for the NRL-administered under-20 competition, the National Youth Competition (NYC), which commenced in 2008.

In 2016, the NRL announced that the National Youth Competition would be discontinued after the 2017 season, in favour of state-based under-20 competitions, administered by the Queensland Rugby League (QRL) and New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL).[2]

On 1 February 2018, the NSWRL officially announced the reintroduction of the Jersey Flegg Cup for the 2018 season after a 10-year absence.[3]

Jersey Flegg Cup teams[edit]

The Jersey Flegg Cup consists of 10 teams, 11 from New South Wales, 1 each from Auckland, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Fiji . In 2019, the Canberra Raiders and South Sydney Rabbitohs returned to the competition after using their New South Wales Cup affiliates in 2018, while the Victoria Thunderbolts joined after spending the last four seasons in QRL-based competitions.[4][5][6]
Most of the clubs being colts grade teams to the reserve grade teams of the New South Wales Cup and the senior grade teams of the NRL.

Current teams[edit]

Jersey Flegg Cup
Rugby League Club City/Town State/Territory Home Venue/s[7] Est. Title/s Recent NRL affiliate
Canberra Raiders Canberra Australian Capital Territory GIO Stadium 1982 2 1993 Raiders
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Belmore New South Wales Belmore Sports Ground 1934 10 2023 Bulldogs
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Woolooware New South Wales PointsBet Stadium 1967 1 2018 Sharks
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Brookvale New South Wales Brookvale Oval 1947 3 1987 Sea Eagles
Melbourne Storm Melbourne Victoria AAMI Park 2015 0 - Storm
Newcastle Knights Newcastle New South Wales McDonald Jones Stadium 1988 2 1992 Knights
New Zealand Warriors Auckland Auckland Mt Smart Stadium 1995 0 - Warriors
North Sydney Bears North Sydney New South Wales North Sydney Oval 1908 1 1998 None
Parramatta Eels Wentworthville New South Wales Ringrose Park 1947 3 1990 Eels
Penrith Panthers Penrith New South Wales BlueBet Stadium 1967 5 2022 Panthers
South Sydney Rabbitohs Redfern New South Wales Redfern Oval 1908 9 2019 Rabbitohs
St George Illawarra Dragons Sydney, Wollongong New South Wales WIN Stadium 1998* 1^ 2005 Dragons
Sydney Roosters Sydney New South Wales Allianz Stadium 1908 3 2004 Roosters
Wests Tigers Campbelltown New South Wales Campbelltown Stadium 1999* 0^ - Tigers
* denotes that the club was formed as a joint-venture of former existing clubs.
^ denotes that previous clubs making up the joint venture had won premierships prior to merging, which are not included in this tally.
Alternate Home Venue/s for Canberra Raiders; Raiders Belconnen, Belmore Sports Ground, McDonalds Park.
Alternate Home Venue/s for Manly Sea Eagles; HE Laybutt Field.
Alternate Home Venue/s for Melbourne Storm; Seabrook Reserve, Gosch's Paddock, Comely Banks Recreation Reserve.
Alternate Home Venue/s for Newcastle Knights; Newcastle Knights Centre of Excellence.
Alternate Home Venue/s for South Sydney Rabbitohs; Accor Stadium.
Alternate Home Venue/s for Sydney Roosters; Wentworth Park.

Season Structure[edit]

Regular season[edit]

The Jersey Flegg Cup follows the same regular season format as the NSW Cup, with games usually played as curtain-raisers to the senior fixtures. Beginning in early March, a round of regular season games is then played almost every weekend for twenty-one weeks, ending in late August. Unlike the NSW Cup, the Jersey Flegg Cup features three full rounds where every team receives a bye. These rounds are scheduled in to accommodate university exam periods.[8]

Teams receive two competition points for a win, and one point for a draw. The bye also receives two points; a loss, no points. Teams on the ladder are ranked by competition points, then match points differential (for and against) and points percentage are used to separate teams with equal competition points. At the end of the regular season, the club which is ranked highest on the ladder is declared minor premiers.

Finals series[edit]

The eight highest placed teams at the end of the regular season compete in the finals series. The Jersey Flegg follows the same finals format as the NRL and the NSW Cup. The system consists of a number of games between the top eight teams over four weeks in September, until only two teams remain.

These two teams then contest the Grand Final, which is played in late September at a suburban Sydney stadium (for example, Leichhardt Oval[9]), as a curtain-raiser to the NSW Cup Grand Final.

Premiership Winners[edit]

Year Age Premiers Score Runner-up Minor Premiers Wooden Spooners Reference
1961 U17/s Manly Sea Eagles 23 – 5 Wests Magpies Knock Out Competition [10][11][12]
1962 U17/s Souths Rabbitohs 14 – 9 Parramatta Eels [13][14][15]
1963 U17/s Canterbury Bulldogs 10 – 0 Newtown Jets [16][17]
1964 U17/s Souths Rabbitohs 10 – 4 St George Dragons [18][19]
1965 U17/s Wests Magpies 12 – 4 Balmain Tigers [20][21]
1966 U17/s Souths Rabbitohs 10 – 4 Balmain Tigers Balmain Tigers Norths Bears [22][23][24][25][26]
1967 U17/s Souths Rabbitohs 8 – 2 St George Dragons St George Dragons Norths Bears [27][28][29][30]
1968 U17/s Souths Rabbitohs 13 – 7 Parramatta Eels St George Dragons Norths Bears [31][32][33][34][35]
1969 U18/s Souths Rabbitohs 6 – 0 Canterbury Bulldogs Souths Rabbitohs Norths Bears [36][37][38][39][40]
1970 U18/s Parramatta Eels
1971 U18/s Canterbury Bulldogs
1972 U18/s Souths Rabbitohs
1973 U18/s Balmain Tigers
1974 U18/s Manly Sea Eagles 8 – 7 Parramatta Eels
1975 U18/s St George Dragons 14 – 10 Wests Magpies
1976 U17/s Canterbury Bulldogs 18 – 10 Parramatta Eels
1977 U17/s Penrith Panthers
1978 U18/s Souths Rabbitohs Balmain Tigers
1979 U18/s Canterbury Bulldogs 22 – 12 Souths Rabbitohs
1980 U18/s Balmain Tigers 26 – 7 Newtown Jets
1981 U18/s Balmain Tigers
1982 U18/s Balmain Tigers Cronulla Sharks
1983 U18/s Canterbury Bulldogs
1984 U18/s Balmain Tigers
1985 U19/s Parramatta Eels
1986 U19/s Penrith Panthers
1987 U19/s Manly Sea Eagles
1988 U19/s Balmain Tigers 19 – 10 Newcastle Knights
1989 U19/s Canberra Raiders 26 – 8 Balmain Tigers
1990 U19/s Parramatta Eels 22 – 8 Cronulla Sharks
1991 U19/s Newcastle Knights 28 – 12 Canberra Raiders
1992 U19/s Newcastle Knights 26 – 12 Wests Magpies
1993 U19/s Canberra Raiders 28 – 6 St George Dragons
1994 U19/s Balmain Tigers 34 – 26 St George Dragons
1995 U19/s Sydney City Roosters 29 – 16 Manly Sea Eagles
1996 U19/s St George Dragons 22 – 10 Manly Sea Eagles
1997 U20/s Balmain Tigers Sydney City Roosters
1998 U19/s Norths Bears 28 – 12 Parramatta Eels Norths Bears Canberra Raiders [41]
1999 U20/s Canterbury Bulldogs 18 – 12 Newcastle Knights St George Dragons Wests Magpies [42][43]
2000 U20/s Canterbury Bulldogs 22 – 8 Wests Magpies Canterbury Bulldogs Souths Rabbitohs [44][45]
2001 U20/s Canterbury Bulldogs 12 – 10 Cronulla Sharks Canterbury Bulldogs Souths Rabbitohs [46][47] a
2002 U20/s Sydney Roosters 23 – 22 St George Illawarra Dragons St George Illawarra Dragons Balmain Tigers [48]
2003 U19/s Canterbury Bulldogs 32 – 22 Cronulla Sharks Cronulla Sharks Central Coast Rip [49][50][51]
2004 U20/s Sydney Roosters 14 – 13 Cronulla Sharks Sydney Roosters Central Coast Rip [52]
2005 U20/s St George Illawarra Dragons 30 – 20 Parramatta Eels St George Illawarra Dragons Central Coast [53]
2006 U20/s Penrith Panthers 22 – 20 Newcastle Knights Newcastle Knights Central Coast [54]
2007 U20/s Penrith Panthers 19 – 14 Parramatta Eels Penrith Panthers Central Coast Storm [55]
2018 U20/s Cronulla Sharks 22 – 12 Penrith Panthers Newcastle Knights Wests Tigers [56]
2019 U20/s Souths Rabbitohs 16 – 14 Canberra Raiders Cronulla Sharks Manly Sea Eagles [57]
2020 Season was suspended and then cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[58]
2021 U21/s Season was suspended and then cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[59]
2022 U21/s Penrith Panthers 19 – 18 Newcastle Knights Sydney Roosters Souths Rabbitohs [60]
2023 U21/s Canterbury Bulldogs 22 – 20 Sydney Roosters Sydney Roosters Wests Tigers
  • NOTE = Not held between 2008 and 2017

Premiership Tally[edit]

No. Club Seasons
1 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 10 (1963, 1971, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2023)
2 South Sydney Rabbitohs 9 (1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1978, 2019)
3 Balmain Tigers 8 (1973, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1994, 1997)
4 Penrith Panthers 5 (1977, 1986, 2006, 2007, 2022)
5 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 3 (1961, 1974, 1987)
5 Parramatta Eels 3 (1970, 1985, 1990)
5 Sydney Roosters 3 (1995, 2002, 2004)
8 St George Dragons 2 (1975, 1996)
8 Canberra Raiders 2 (1989, 1993)
8 Newcastle Knights 2 (1991, 1992)
11 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 1 (2018)
11 St George Illawarra Dragons 1 (2005)
11 North Sydney Bears 1 (1998)
11 Western Suburbs Magpies 1 (1965)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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