Townsville District Rugby League

Townsville District Rugby League
Sport	Rugby league
Instituted	1920s
Number of teams	9
Country	Australia
Website	www.qrl.com.au ; Rugby League Townsville & District

The Townsville District Rugby League (TDRL) is a rugby league football competition in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The competition is run under the Queensland Rugby League, and features nine clubs, who contest a Premiership season across four senior men's and one senior women's grade from April until August.^[1]

Representative Team

The local representative team in the Queensland Cup is the Townsville Blackhawks, who play at Jack Manski Oval. Junior squads are nicknamed the Townsville Stingers, which was also the name of the former representative team in the Queensland Cup. RLTD selects representative teams to compete in the yearly Foley Shield and Mal Meninga Cup (Under 19's) state league as the Townsville Stingers/Townsville Blackhawks.^[2]

Senior Clubs

The Townsville & District Rugby League runs an eight club senior competition comprising four men's grades:

A-Grade (Senior Grade),
Reserve Grade,
Under 20's
Womens.

Townsville & District Rugby League^[3]
Club	City	Home ground(s)	No. of A-Grade Premierships	A-Grade Premiership Years
Bowen Seagulls *	Bowen	Denison Park
Townsville Brothers Leprechauns	Townsville	Jack Manski Oval
Burdekin Roosters	Ayr	Rugby Park
Centrals ASA Tigers	Townsville	Townsville Sports Reserve
Charters Towers Miners	Charters Towers	Bill Lewis Oval
Herbert River Crushers	Ingham	Artie Gofton Oval
Norths Devils	Townsville	Peggy Banfield Park
Southern Suburbs Bulls	Townsville	Ross River Sports Ground
Western Suburbs Lions	Townsville	Neil Stewart Park

Bowen Seagulls compete only in the Reserve Grade and Under 20's

Recent Grand Finals

Townsville & District Rugby League Grand Finals
Year	Premiers	Score	Runners-Up	Venue
2013	Herbert River	24 – 12	Townsville Brothers	Townsville Sports Reserve
2014	Townsville Brothers	22 – 8	Burdekin Roosters	Townsville Sports Reserve
2015	Burdekin Roosters	20 – 18	Herbert River	Townsville Sports Reserve
2016	Herbert River	32 – 20	Centrals ASA Tigers	Townsville Sports Reserve
2017	Townsville Brothers	18 – 16	Herbert River	Townsville Sports Reserve
2018	Centrals ASA Tigers	46 – 22	Townsville Brothers	Townsville Sports Reserve
2019	Townsville Brothers	42 – 10	Herbert River	Townsville Sports Reserve
2020	Season Cancelled due to COVID-19			N/A
2021	Townsville Brothers	32 – 0	Centrals ASA Tigers	Townsville Sports Reserve
2022	Herbert River	24 – 14	Townsville Brothers	Townsville Sports Reserve

Source:^[4]

Townsville District Juniors

The Townsville & District Junior Rugby League (the Kangaroos) runs a ten club juniors competitions with grades ranging from under 6's to under 18's.^[5] Townsville's juniors competed in the Cyril Connell Cup state league formerly as the Townsville Stingers, but now go by Mendi Townsville & Districts Blackhawks.

The TDJRL clubs are shown below.

Townsville District JRL clubs^[3]
Abergowrie Bowen Burdekin Centrals A.S.A Charters Towers Herbert River North Thuringowa Devils Townsville Brothers United Suburbs Upper Ross Western Lions Palm Island Barracudas

References

^ "Home - Rugby League Townsville & Districts". www.rltd.com.au. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
^ http://www.sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi?c=0-2269-0-210439-0&a=LADDER ^{[dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b "Association: Townsville District Junior Rugby League". www.playrugbyleague.com. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
^ "Competition: 2022 RLTD A GRADE Draw". www.playrugbyleague.com. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
^ http://www.sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi?c=7-2240-0-223220-0&pool=1&round=0&a=LADDER ^{[dead link‍]}

[1] "Home - Rugby League Townsville & Districts". www.rltd.com.au. Retrieved 2023-04-11.

[2] ttp://www.sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi?c=0-2269-0-210439-0&a=LADDER ^{[dead link‍]}

[:0-3] "Association: Townsville District Junior Rugby League". www.playrugbyleague.com. Retrieved 2023-04-11.

[4] "Competition: 2022 RLTD A GRADE Draw". www.playrugbyleague.com. Retrieved 2023-08-08.

[5] ttp://www.sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi?c=7-2240-0-223220-0&pool=1&round=0&a=LADDER ^{[dead link‍]}

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