| 2015 New South Wales Cup | |
| League: | NSW Rugby League |
| Pixels: | 150px |
| Duration: | March 7 to September 27 |
| No Of Teams: | 12 |
| Season Champ Name: | Premiers |
| League Leaders: | Mount Pritchard Mounties |
| League Leaders Name: | Minor Premiers |
| Second Place: | Wyong Roos |
| Wooden Spoon: | Wentworthville Magpies |
| Mvp: | Mitchell Barnett (NSW Cup Player of the Year) |
| Top Scorer: | Mitch Cornish 162 (10 tries, 61 goals) |
| Top Try Scorer: | Tyrone Phillips 23 |
| Season2: | Ron Massey Cup |
| No Of Teams2: | 11 |
| Season Champs2: | Mount Pritchard Mounties |
| Season Champ Name2: | Premiers |
| League Leaders Name2: | Minor Premiers |
| Second Place2: | Asquith Magpies |
| Mvp2: | Alofi Mataele (Concord Burwood) |
| Top Scorer2: | Sam Aiga (Mounties) 212 (15 tries, 76 goals) |
| Top Try Scorer2: | Mick Pearsall (Asquith) 30 |
| Season3: | Sydney Shield |
| No Of Teams3: | 13 |
| Season Champs3: | Wentworthville Magpies |
| Season Champ Name3: | Premiers |
| League Leaders3: | Wentworthville Magpies |
| League Leaders Name3: | Minor Premiers |
| Second Place3: | Hills District Bulls |
| Mvp3: | Ben Baker (East Campbelltown) |
| Top Scorer3: | Ben Baker (East Campbelltown) 254 (26 tries, 75 goals) |
| Top Try Scorer3: | Ben Baker (East Campbelltown) 26 |
| Prevseason Link: | 2014 New South Wales Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 2014 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2016 Intrust Super Premiership NSW |
| Nextseason Year: | 2016 |
The 2015 New South Wales Cup season, was the second tier rugby league competition held in New South Wales, after the National Rugby League. The 2015 season kicked off on 7 March 2015 and was won by the Newcastle Knights.
In 2015, 12 clubs were fielding teams in the New South Wales Cup.
It was announced in 2014 that the longstanding relationship between the Sydney Roosters and the Newtown Jets had come to an end, with the NRL Club deciding to link with the Wyong Roos in the NSW Cup as their feeder club.[1] The Cronulla Sharks decided to pull their own team from the competition opting into taking the Newtown Jets on as their feeder club, forming a new relationship with a 3-year agreement between the clubs.[2]
The season the team joined is in the NSW Cup, not any other competition before this.
| 2015 New South Wales Cup season - Final Table | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts | ||
| 1 | Mount Pritchard Mounties | 22 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 653 | 493 | +160 | 36 | |
| 2 | Wyong Roos | 22 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 581 | 422 | +159 | 36 | |
| 3 | Penrith Panthers | 22 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 489 | 387 | +102 | 36 | |
| 4 | New Zealand Warriors | 22 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 516 | 556 | -40 | 32 | |
| 5 | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 22 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 578 | 524 | +54 | 30 | |
| 6 | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 584 | 571 | +13 | 28 | |
| 7 | Newcastle Knights | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 552 | 542 | +10 | 28 | |
| 8 | North Sydney Bears | 22 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 550 | 563 | -13 | 26 | |
| 9 | Newtown Jets | 22 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 492 | 560 | -68 | 23 | |
| 10 | Illawarra Cutters | 22 | 8 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 526 | 552 | -26 | 22 | |
| 11 | Wests Tigers | 22 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 460 | 586 | -126 | 21 | |
| 12 | Wentworthville Magpies | 22 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 402 | 627 | -225 | 18 | |
For the fourth year in a row, the NSWRL used the finals system previously implemented by the ARL competition from the 1990s and the NRL from 2012 to decide the grand finalists from the top eight finishing teams.
| Home | Score | Away | Match information | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date and time (local) | Venue | Referees | Crowd | |||||
| QUALIFYING & ELIMINATION FINALS | ||||||||
| Wyong Roos | 28 10 | Penrith Panthers | 5 September | Penrith Stadium | ||||
| Mount Pritchard Mounties | 43 – 10 | New Zealand Warriors | Belmore Sports Ground | |||||
| Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 22 – 4 | North Sydney Bears | ||||||
| Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | 6 – 45 | Newcastle Knights | ||||||
| SEMI FINALS | ||||||||
| Newcastle Knights | 44 12 | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | 12 September | Jubilee Oval, Kogarah | ||||
| Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 33 – 20 | New Zealand Warriors | ||||||
| PRELIMINARY FINALS | ||||||||
| Mount Pritchard Mounties | 26 – 30 | Newcastle Knights | 19 September | Leichhardt Oval | ||||
| Wyong Roos | 44 – 20 | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | ||||||
| GRAND FINAL | ||||||||
| Newcastle Knights | 20 – 10 | Wyong Roos | 27 September | Pirtek Stadium | ||||
See main article: 2015 NRL State Championship.
From 2014 onwards, New South Wales Cup Premiers play against the Queensland Cup Premiers with the winner to be crowned the NRL State Champions.
Fox Sports 1 provide live coverage of at least one match each week throughout the regular season along with selected finals.
Sky Sports NZ cover a number of New Zealand Warriors home matches. Some of these matches will be simulcast in Australia on Fox Sports 1 at their discretion.
Hawkesbury Radio call a number of Panthers VB NSW Cup games and some of Windsor Wolves games in the Ron Massey Cup where possible.
Covering predominantly Newtown Jets home fixtures.
2GLF provide coverage of a host of VB NSW Cup games with a specific charter of servicing teams such as the Tigers, Mounties, Bulldogs and Magpies.
ALIVE fm call selected Wentworthville Magpies home fixtures from Ringrose Park.
Triple H call a few VB NSW Cup games from time to time where possible.
Provide score updates where possible during the regular season.
Provide Full Time scores to their listeners as they become available throughout the weekend.
See main article: 2015 Ron Massey Cup.
| 2015 Ron Massey Cup season - Final Table | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts | ||
| 1 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 722 | 322 | +400 | 40 | ||
| 2 | 20 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 602 | 343 | +259 | 32 | ||
| 3 | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 607 | 460 | +147 | 28 | ||
| 4 | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 486 | 510 | -24 | 28 | ||
| 5 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 529 | 543 | -14 | 23 | ||
| 6 | Concord Burwood Wolves | 20 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 540 | 572 | -32 | 23 | |
| 7 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 558 | 455 | +103 | 22 | ||
| 8 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 619 | 558 | +61 | 22 | ||
| 9 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 477 | 518 | -41 | 22 | ||
| 10 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 586 | 563 | +23 | 20 | ||
| 11 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 232 | 1114 | -882 | 4 | ||
| 2015 Sydney Shield season - Final Table | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts | ||
| 1 | 20 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 670 | 412 | +258 | 38 | ||
| 2 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 652 | 474 | +178 | 30 | ||
| 3 | Peninsula Seagulls | 20 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 602 | 474 | +128 | 30 | |
| 4 | 20 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 608 | 503 | +105 | 30 | ||
| 5 | 20 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 602 | 424 | +178 | 29 | ||
| 6 | 20 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 592 | 450 | +142 | 27 | ||
| 7 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 504 | 466 | +38 | 22 | ||
| 8 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 479 | 514 | -35 | 22 | ||
| 9 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 554 | 573 | -19 | 19 | ||
| 10 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 532 | 684 | -152 | 19 | ||
| 11 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 524 | 818 | -294 | 16 | ||
| 12 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 421 | 616 | -195 | 15 | ||
| 13 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 431 | 763 | -332 | 13 | ||