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The Queensland Cup, currently known as the Hostplus Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the highest-level regional competition in , Australia. It is run by the Queensland Rugby League (QRL) and is contested by fifteen teams, thirteen of which are based in , with one based in New South Wales and one in Central Province, Papua New Guinea.

The competition is the present-day embodiment of Queensland's top-level club competition. It replaced the Winfield State League in 1996 and accompanied the Brisbane Rugby League, before becoming the premier competition in 1998, following the disbanding of the Brisbane Rugby League.

History
Origin and establishment
Since its inaugural season in 1922, the Brisbane Rugby League was the premier competition in the state of . Like its counterpart, the Sydney Rugby Football League, the Brisbane Rugby League was thriving, boasting big crowds and large, loyal supporter bases with their respective clubs. The clubs were constant, with new teams rarely entering the competition. However, in 1956, when were introduced in New South Wales but not in Queensland, Sydney's clubs were able to recruit the best players from Brisbane, and . Within the space of several years, the Sydney Rugby League had come to dominate the code within Australia.

In the 1980s, the NSWRFL began to further expand and supersede the Brisbane competition in popularity and media coverage. In 1982, the first clubs based outside of Sydney, the and Illawarra Steelers, were admitted. In 1988, two Queensland-based sides, the and Gold Coast Giants, along with the Newcastle Knights, another team from regional New South Wales, were formed and gained entry into the competition. The Broncos would sign Brisbane Rugby League stars like , and . In the space of one season, media coverage and match attendance for the Brisbane Rugby League dropped significantly.

1996–1997: The beginning
In 1996, the Queensland Cup was formed, replacing the Winfield State League, as new federal government laws banned cigarette companies from sponsoring sport. Originally branded the Channel Nine Cup, the 15 round regular season competition featured sixteen teams, fifteen from Queensland and one from Papua New Guinea. The Toowoomba Clydesdales were crowned the inaugural premiers, defeating the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Grand Final. In 1997, three teams withdrew from the competition and the joined, becoming the first Gold Coast-based side.

1998–2002: Premier competition
In 1998, the competition became the top level of rugby league in the state, following the end of the Brisbane Rugby League. Channel Nine also ended their sponsorship for the 1998 season, with competition going under name, the Queensland Cup. A sixteen-team competition returned in 1998, with the Bundaberg Grizzlies rejoining and the Gold Coast Vikings being formed.

In 1999, the Grizzlies and Vikings both left the competition, as well as inaugural club and the Townsville Stingers, who played just one season.

In 2000, began a two-year sponsorship of the competition and it was known as the Bundy Gold Cup. The 2000 season was also the first in which all twelve teams remained from the season prior. It would not last long though, as the folded after the 2000 season, leaving no representation in the competition. In 2002, the North Queensland Young Guns, a -based North Queensland Cowboys feeder club, were admitted into the competition. At the end of the 2002 season, the , an inaugural club, left the competition.

2003–2006: Interstate expansion
In 2003, the Tweed Seagulls joined the competition, becoming the first New South Wales-based side. The club had originally applied for the 2002 season but were unsuccessful. However, following a merger of the and Souths Magpies to form the Souths Logan Magpies, a spot was opened up and Tweed were admitted. Another inaugural club would leave the competition in 2004, with the exiting, and , a merger of and the Fortitude Valley Diehards, joining for a single season.

In 2005, the competition became known as the Queensland Wizard Cup, after Wizard Home Loans became the major sponsor.

2007: Loss of the Clydesdales
Although the QRL had anticipated that the same teams from 2006 would participate in the 2007 competition, it was announced on 5 December 2006 that inaugural club, the Toowoomba Clydesdales, who were the reigning minor premiers, would be withdrawing from the competition for financial reasons. chairman Bruno Cullen said that "It didn't make sense to have this club up there running at what was looking like a $250,000 loss for the year." The following day it was announced that the would be replacing the Clydesdales, and acting as the feeder club. The Aspley Broncos would play just a single season in the competition.

The 2007 season marked the first time a team based outside of Queensland would win the competition, with the Tweed Seagulls defeating the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Grand Final.

2008–2013: Further expansion
2008 saw the Queensland Cup once again have teams based in the northern cities of and Mackay after absences of seven and twelve years, respectively. These new teams replaced Aspley and North Queensland as part of the rationalisation of rugby league below the NRL level caused by the introduction of the NRL under 20s competition.

In 2009, the Sunshine Coast Falcons rejoined the competition after thirteen-year absence, after signing a partnership with the Manly Sea Eagles to develop rugby league on the Sunshine Coast. Manly to invest $1m in Coast league | thedaily.com.au The side played as the Sea Eagles and won the premiership in their first year.

In 2010, Super was announced as the new major sponsor, with the competition becoming known as the Intrust Super Cup. From 2009 to 2013, the competition featured the same twelve teams for five straight seasons.

2014–2021: Papua New Guinea and Townsville return
In 2014, the PNG Hunters entered the competition, becoming the first Papua New Guinea based side in the competition since the Port Moresby Vipers in 1997. In their inaugural season, the side was based out of the East New Britain town of . On 10 September 2014, QRL chairman Peter Betros announced that the Brothers Townsville-led Townsville Blackhawks bid had been successful and the side would compete in the 2015 season.

On 5 October 2014, the Northern Pride became the first Queensland Cup side to win the NRL State Championship, defeating the heavily favoured side in the inaugural final.

In 2017, the Hunters won their first Queensland Cup premiership, defeating the Sunshine Coast Falcons in the Grand Final and becoming the first team outside of Australia, and the second from outside of Queensland to win the competition.

On 27 March 2020, after round one of the season was completed, the 2020 Intrust Super Cup competition was suspended, and subsequently cancelled for the first time in its history due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with no premiers being crowned. In September 2020, the were renamed as the for the 2021 season onward. since the formation of the Queensland Cup in 1996.

2022–present: and return of the Clydesdales
In November 2021, became the naming rights sponsor of the competition for the 2022 season, replacing Intrust Super after the two companies had merged.

On July 17, the QRL announced that the Western Clydesdales, previously called the Toowoomba Clydesdales would (re)enter the competition for the 2023 season, becoming the competition's fifteenth team.

Queensland Cup teams
The Queensland Cup consists of 15 teams, 13 from , and 1 each from National Capital District of Papua New Guinea and New South Wales, and operates on a single group system, with no divisions or conferences and no relegation and promotion from other leagues.
A number of clubs in the Queensland Cup have an affiliation with a team in the Australian national competition, the National Rugby League.

Current teams
Queensland Cup
191719961
(2023)
19341997Gold Coast4
(2019)
Central Queensland Capras199619960
(None)		Redcliffe Dolphins (NRL)
19821996IpswichNorth Ipswich Reserve1
(2015)		Gold Coast TitansThe Roosters also have a partnership agreement with the Jets but do not send the club any players.
20072008Mackay1
(2013)		North Queensland Cowboys
Northern Pride200720082
(2014)		North Queensland Cowboys
19331996Bishop Park4
(2024)		Redcliffe Dolphins (NRL)
PNG Hunters20132014PNG Football Stadium1
(2017)		No Affiliate
Redcliffe Dolphins19471996Kayo Stadium6
(2018)		Redcliffe Dolphins (NRL)
Souths Logan Magpies191820031
(2008)
Sunshine Coast Falcons19962008Sunshine CoastSunshine Coast Stadium1
(2009)
Townsville Blackhawks20142015Jack Manski Oval0
(None)		South Sydney RabbitohsThe Rabbitohs have a partnership agreement with the Blackhawks but do not send the club any players.
Tweed Heads Seagulls19092003Tweed HeadsPiggabeen Complex1
(2007)		Gold Coast Titans
Western Clydesdales20162023Clive Berghofer Stadium0
(None)		Canterbury BulldogsThe Bulldogs have a partnership agreement with the Clydesdales but do not send the club any players.
Wynnum Manly Seagulls195119962
(2012)
* The season the team joined the competition in its current form and consecutive tenure.

Former teams
As the Queensland Cup initially began as a representative competition that took over the old Winfield State League before becoming a proper club competition, many of the following clubs were "representative" sides that either withdrew (in the case of Mackay and Bundaberg) or folded ( and Port Moresby Vipers).

Queensland Cup
196720072007Bishop Park0-
192919961998Corbett Park0-
200220042004O'Callaghan Park0-
Bundaberg Grizzlies1996199619980-
1996199620000-
Gold Coast Vikings198219981998Gold Coast0-
198719962002LoganMeakin Park0-
Mackay Sea Eagles199619961996MackayMackay JRL Ground0-
North Queensland Young Guns200220022007Dairy Farmers Stadium12005
Port Moresby Vipers198619961997N. C. DistrictPNG Football Stadium0-
Townsville Stingers199819981998Townsville Sports Reserve0-
Toowoomba Clydesdales199619962006Clive Berghofer Stadium22001
1915199620030-
* Brisbane Brothers played as the Pine Rivers Brothers from 1996 to 1997.
Toowoomba Clydesdales returned to the Queensland Cup as the Western Clydesdales in 2023

Participating clubs by season
1996Bundaberg Grizzlies Central Capras Souths MagpiesMackay Sea EaglesPort Moresby VipersRedcliffe DolphinsSunshine Coast FalconsToowoomba Clydesdales
1997
1998Bundaberg GrizzliesCentral CaprasGold Coast VikingsSouths Magpies Redcliffe Dolphins Toowoomba Clydesdales Townsville Stingers
1999
2000 Central Comets Souths Magpies Redcliffe Dolphins Toowoomba Clydesdales
2001
2002 Central Comets Souths Magpies Redcliffe Dolphins Toowoomba Clydesdales North Queensland Young Guns
2003Souths Logan MagpiesTweed Heads Seagulls
2004
2005 Central Comets Souths Logan Magpies Redcliffe Dolphins Toowoomba ClydesdalesTweed Heads SeagullsNorth Queensland Young Guns
2006
2007
2008Northern Pride
2009Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles
2010 Northern PrideCentral Comets Souths Logan Magpies Redcliffe DolphinsSunshine Coast Sea Eagles Tweed Heads Seagulls
2011Central Queensland Capras
2012Papua New Guinea HuntersSunshine Coast Falcons
2013Townsville Blackhawks
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022 Northern PrideCentral Queensland Capras Souths Logan Magpies PNG HuntersRedcliffe DolphinsSunshine Coast Falcons Tweed Heads SeagullsTownsville Blackhawks
2023Western Clydesdales
2024

Season structure
Pre-season
The Queensland Cup pre-season typically begins in February and ends in early March. Clubs generally use this time to organise trial matches to test playing combinations. Usually, Queensland Cup teams will play each other in trials, while some face National Rugby League (NRL) sides. For example, in 2018, the played trial matches against the Central Queensland Capras and PNG Hunters.

Regular season
The Queensland Cup regular season usually begins in early March and runs until late August. A round of regular season games is played every weekend for twenty-four weeks. In most rounds, matches are played on Saturday nights/afternoons and Sunday afternoons. Each team receives one bye during the regular season.

The regular season also features a number of themed rounds, where proceeds from the games go to various charities. In 2018, these rounds included ANZAC Round, Indigenous Round, Men of League Round, Women in League Round, "Turn to Me" Round and the annual Country Week.

Country Week
The Queensland Cup has the largest regional footprint of any professional sporting code in Queensland, hosting regular season and trial matches over a large geographical footprint.

In Round 20, 2011 the Souths Logan Magpies game against the Northern Pride was relocated from the Magpies home ground in Brisbane to Yusia Ginau Oval, on Cape York. The game attracted 2000 spectators, and was so successful that the following year QRL in partnership with the Queensland Government introduced the 'Country Week' concept and took matches to regional Queensland, country towns and cities, to engage fans at a grassroots level. This round usually takes place in July.

Locations which have hosted Country Week games include:

In addition to this round games have also been played in regional locations during regular rounds in:

Finals Series
The eight highest placed teams at the end of the regular season compete in the finals series. 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 usually played in late September. Over the years, the Queensland Cup has used a number of different finals series systems, usually involving five to six and now eight teams. In 2019, the current eight team final series system will be adopted.

Grand Final
The Queensland Cup Grand Final, which determines the season's premiers, is one of the state's major sporting events. It is usually contested at , having been held there annually since 2014, although other venues have been used, such as Dolphin Stadium, North Ipswich Reserve and Sunshine Coast Stadium.

The Grand Final had traditionally been played on Saturday afternoons, until moving to Sunday afternoons beginning in 2010.

Since 2007, the player judged to be the man-of-the-match is awarded the prestigious Medal.

Premiership winners
1996Toowoomba Clydesdales (1st title)8 – 6Redcliffe DolphinsToowoomba Clydesdales23
1997Redcliffe Dolphins (1st)18 – 16Wynnum Manly Seagulls29
1998 (1st)35 – 1633
1999 (1st)12 – 10Redcliffe DolphinsRedcliffe Dolphins35
2000Redcliffe Dolphins (2nd)14 – 6Toowoomba ClydesdalesRedcliffe Dolphins38
2001Toowoomba Clydesdales (2nd)28 – 26Redcliffe DolphinsToowoomba Clydesdales41
2002Redcliffe Dolphins (3rd)34 – 10Redcliffe Dolphins36
2003Redcliffe Dolphins (4th)31 – 1833
2004 (2nd)22 – 1834
2005North Queensland Young Guns (1st)36 – 6North Queensland Young Guns33
2006Redcliffe Dolphins (5th)27 – 6Toowoomba ClydesdalesToowoomba Clydesdales32
2007Tweed Seagulls (1st)28 – 18Redcliffe DolphinsNorth Queensland Young Guns34
2008Souths Logan Magpies (1st)24 – 18 36
2009Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles (1st)32 – 18Northern Queensland Pride Souths Logan Magpies32
2010Northern Queensland Pride (1st)30 – 20Souths Logan Magpies34
2011Wynnum Manly Seagulls (1st)16 – 10Tweed SeagullsTweed Seagulls41
2012Wynnum Manly Seagulls (2nd)20 – 10Redcliffe DolphinsRedcliffe Dolphins34
2013 (1st)27 – 20 Northern Queensland Pride38
2014Northern Queensland Pride (2nd)36 – 4Northern Queensland Pride44
2015 (1st)32 – 20Townsville BlackhawksTownsville Blackhawks43
2016 (3rd)26 – 16Redcliffe DolphinsRedcliffe Dolphins40
2017 (1st)12 – 10Sunshine Coast Falcons39
2018 Redcliffe Dolphins (6th)36 – 22Redcliffe Dolphins35
2019 (4th)28 – 10Wynnum Manly Seagulls Sunshine Coast Falcons43
2020Season was initially suspended after round 1 and was then cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.
2021 (2nd)16 – 10Wynnum Manly Seagulls 30
2022 (3rd)16 – 10Redcliffe Dolphins31
2023 (1st)22 – 18 35
2024 (4th)34 – 20Redcliffe DolphinsNorthern Pride40

Number of premiership wins
  • Team names in bold are the teams currently playing in the Queensland Cup
1999, 2000, 2002, 2012, 2016, 2018
2003, 2004, 2022, 2023
1998, 2021
1996, 2001, 2006
2013, 2014, 2024
1997
2005, 2007
2011
2009, 2010
2019
—
2008
2017
—
2015
—

Notes:

NRL State Championship match
Since 2014, The Grand Final has been played on the same weekend as the Queensland Cup Grand Final, the weekend prior to the NRL Grand Final, allowing for the creation of the NRL State Championship which saw the two competition premiers face off as a to the NRL Grand Final. The match originally followed the NRL Under-20s Grand Final from 2014 to 2017, and in 2018 followed the NRL Women's Grand Final.

In 2019 however, the NRL State Championship was the first of three grand finals played on the day, preceding both the NRL Women's Grand Final and NRL Grand Final, with the exception of 2020 and 2021 when the NRL State Championship match was cancelled due to COVID-19. The Northern Pride and Ipswich Jets became the first two QRL teams to win the State Championship with the next six championships won by the NSWRL premiers. The Norths Devils would break the streak, winning the 2024 match against the Newtown Jets.

Champions: Queensland Cup

NRL State Championship winners
2014Northern Pride32–28ANZ Stadium
201526–12Newcastle Knights
2016 54–12Drew Hutchison
2017 42–18PNG Hunters
2018 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs42–18Redcliffe DolphinsJosh Cleeland
2019 20–16
2020Match was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Match was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in NSW.
202244–10Accor StadiumJ'maine Hopgood
2023South Sydney Rabbitohs42–22
2024 20–18

Honours
At the end of each season at the QRL presentation night, the Petero Civoniceva Medal is awarded to the Queensland Cup player voted as the best and fairest over the entire season. Formerly known as Medal, in 2018, the medal was renamed after former Australian and Queensland representative Petero Civoniceva. After each game, the referees award three votes to the best player, two votes to the second-best player, and one vote to the third-best player. Previous winners include Australia and Queensland representatives and Daly Cherry-Evans.

Since 2007, the man of the match in the Grand Final has been awarded the Medal. The medal is named in honour of ARL Team of the Century member , who played 24 games for Queensland and 22 games for Australia between 1948 and 1955. Past recipients include Tony Williams and , who would go onto win NRL premierships shortly after their Queensland Cup success.

20th Year Anniversary Team
On 21 September 2015, the QRL announced their Queensland Cup 20th Year Anniversary team. The 17-man team was chosen by a selection panel consisting of Brad Tallon (Queensland Rugby League statistician), Steve Ricketts (rugby league journalist), David Wright (former ABC commentator) and Mike Higgison (rugby league historian).

To be eligible for selection, a player must've played a minimum of 75 games in the competition. , who coached the from 1997 to 2005 (winning two premierships), was named coach of the side, while longtime referee Tony Maksoud was included as referee of the team.

449
622
1,089
752
398
1,066
409
80
555
132
104
62
128
144
329
1,421
130
* Statistics are correct to the end of the 2018 season

Records
The following records are taken from the QRL's official website and are correct as of the end of the 2019 season.

Team
  • Most premierships – 6 Redcliffe Dolphins
  • Most minor premierships – 6 Redcliffe Dolphins
  • Most wooden spoons – 5 Central Queensland Capras
  • Highest score in a game – 98, Toowoomba against Western Suburbs Panthers (2003)
  • Longest winning streak – 17 matches, Northern Pride (2010–2011)
  • Longest undefeated streak – 22 matches, Tweed Seagulls (2010–2011)
  • Longest losing streak – 36 matches, Sunshine Coast Falcons (2013–2014)

Individual
  • Most games – Phil Dennis, 282 games
  • Most tries – Daniel Ogden, 155 tries
  • Most points – Nick Parfitt 1,421 points (113 tries, 483 goals)
  • Most points in a season 318, (2013)
  • Most tries in a season 34, Daniel Kennedy 2004
  • Most points in a game 40, Damien Richter 2002, Greg Bourke 2002
  • Most tries in a game 7, Chris Walker 2000, Anthony Zipf 2004

Media coverage & Sponsorship
Although the Queensland Cup has never had the same amount of media coverage that the pre- Brisbane Rugby League did, in recent years it has experienced a resurgence in interest from both the Queensland media and from casual fans alike.

Television
In 2018, the match of the round was televised live on the in Queensland at 1:00pm (AEST) on Saturdays. Previously, the match of the round had been broadcast by Nine on Sunday afternoons and before that, on on Saturday afternoons. The match is later replayed during the week on 's channel. The match of the round returned to Sunday afternoons for the 2019 season.

The non-broadcast games are recorded for highlights and judiciary and coaching purposes.

Radio
From 2006 to 2013, community broadcaster Bay FM began broadcasting matches of the Wynnum Manly Seagulls with commentators Mike Higgison and Troy Robbins.

In 2015, a group of community broadcasters including Switch 1197, Valley FM Esk and Phoenix Radio Ipswich began broadcasting matches featuring the .

Online
Starting from 2022 Queensland Rugby League announced a new streaming deal with Cluch.tv under the website name Qplus.TV where fan can subscribe to watch every game live.

Sponsorship
Due to sponsorship, the Queensland Cup has gone under many different names since first being held in 1996. Originally known as the Channel Nine Cup, it has been known as the Hostplus Cup since 2022.

See also
  • Hastings Deering Colts
  • FOGS Cup and FOGS Colts Challenge
  • Brisbane Rugby League premiership
  • Queensland Rugby League
  • Winfield State League

External links

Queensland Cup News

Queensland Rugby League forums

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