The 2018

NRL Women's Premiership The NRL Women's Premiership (NRLW) also known as the Telstra NRL Women's Premiership due to sponsorship is a rugby league competition in Australasia for female players. The league is run by the National Rugby League (NRL) and is contested by ...

(NRLW) was the first season of professional

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Teams

Pre-season

Only two of the four sides, the

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and

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, took part in pre-season trial games. The Warriors played two fixtures against a combined

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side, while the Broncos played the

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as a curtain-raiser to the

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fixture. The

Sydney Roosters Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club, known as the Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs. The club competes in the National Rugby Lea ...

were due to play the

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but the game was cancelled due to player availability. They instead underwent an opposed session with the Roosters' under-20 Jersey Flegg Cup side.

Regular season

The inaugural season will operate under a round-robin format, with games played as curtain-raisers to the 2018 NRL Finals Series. The top two finishing teams will then contest the Grand Final, which is to be played before the men's

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on 30 September.

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Ladder

Ladder progression

*Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top two. *Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round. *Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.

Grand Final

References

External links

* {{NRL Women's Premiership