Sunraysia-Riverlands Rugby League Explained

Sunraysia-Riverlands Rugby League
Founded:1991
Folded:1995
Ceotag:President
Ceo:Trevor Ryan
Teams:2
Country:Sunraysia, Victoria, Australia
Champion:Mildura Warriors
Most Champs:Robinvale Storms
Count:6
Top Pointscorer:Dusty Lee
Related Comps:NRL Victoria
Re-Formed:2011

The Sunraysia-Riverlands Rugby League is a rugby league football competition in Victoria, Australia held by NRL Victoria. The league was formed in 1991 representing 5 clubs in the far south-west corner of New South Wales, along with 1 club from Victoria. During its first 4 seasons, the league was overseen by both the Country Rugby League & Victorian Rugby League, before the competition was disbanded in 1995.

The league was reformed in 2011 with five clubs, however as of 2022, this has been reduced to 2 clubs both located in Victoria. As both clubs remaining are from Victoria, sole control of the league passed to NRL Victoria. This changed however when the league entered a temporary amalgamation with the NSWRL's Outback Rugby League for 2022 due to a lack of numbers, with joint control returning once more. This arrangement ended after the two leagues demalgamated in 2023.

Clubs

ColoursClubTownGround
Mildura TigersMilduraNichols Point Reserve, Nichols Point
Mildura WarriorsMilduraNichols Point Reserve, Nichols Point
Robinvale StormsRobinvaleRobinvale Sports Ground

Former Clubs

Known Teams[1] ChampionshipsExistence
Buronga11991–?
Dareton Dragons0?–1995
Euston Robinvale Sea Eagles3?–1995
Mildura City11991–1995
Murray Darling Eels01991–1995
Wentworth0?–1995

Champions

This is a list of the Sunraysia-Riverlands Rugby League 1st Grade competition champions and the runners-up for each of the 5 Seasons the competition existed. There was also other competitions which existed below the 1st Grade competition such as the Reserve Grade competition which operated a feeder-league to the 1st Grade competition.

SeasonPremiersScoreRunners-up
1990 Murray-Darling Eels34 – 32 Mildura City Rabbitohs
1991 Buronga Bulldogs22 – 16 Euston Robinvale
1992 Euston Robinvale54 – 10 Buronga Bulldogs
1993 Euston Robinvale 52 – 20 Murray Darling Eels
1994 Euston Robinvale 36 – 12 Murray Darling Eels
1995 Mildura City Tigers 30 – 22 Murray Darling Eels
Hiatus 1996–2009
2010
2011 Robinvale Storm
201224 – 17 Mildura Tigers
2013[2] 22 – 20 Mildura City Tigers
2014[3] Robinvale Storm 20 – 6 Mildura Warriors
2015[4] Robinvale Storm 22 – 16 Chaffey Titans
2016[5] Robinvale Storm28 – 20 Mildura Tigers
2017[6] 14 – 12 Mildura City Tigers
2018 Mildura Tigers 16 – 4 Robinvale Storm
201914 – 4 Mildura Tigers
20202020 and 2021 seasons cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www2.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/aus/nsw/sum/nsw1994.htm#Sunraysia-Riverlands 1994 Sunraysia-Riverlands Season
  2. http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=0-7353-0-0-0&sID=178416&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=25314475
  3. News: Storm make History . Mathieson, Andrew . Sunraysua Daily . 1 September 2014 . 25 June 2016.
  4. News: Purple Reign as Storm Seal back to back titles . DiFabrizio, Michael . Sunraysia Daily . 25 August 2015 . 25 June 2016.
  5. News: Robinvale Storm breaks Mildura Tigers . DiFabrizio, Michael . Sunraysia Daily . 15 August 2016 . 25 March 2017.
  6. News: Titans tough in grand win . Sunraysua Daily . 20 August 2017 . 18 March 2018.