Group 1 Rugby League was a former rugby league

Rugby league

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 competition held in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

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, run under the auspices of the Country Rugby League

New South Wales Country Rugby League

-2011 Tier 2 Championships:-History:Newcastle was the first city outside Sydney to start a league competition, being involved in the Sydney Premiership in 1908-09 and then starting their own competition in 1910....

. The group, however, still runs a junior rugby league competition. When the Group 18

Group 18 Rugby League

Group 18 is the name of a rugby league competition on the far north coast of New South Wales, Australia. Currently, the group has no senior competition. Prior to 2005, there was a joint Gold Coast-Group 18 competition which fielded teams from both the Queensland and New South Wales sides of the...

-Gold Coast competition dissolved in 2005, the New South Wales sides joined together with Group 1 to form a divisional league, Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League

Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League

The Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League is a rugby league competition run in the far north of New South Wales, Australia. It is run under the auspices of the Country Rugby League. The league formed in 2005 as an extended Group 1 Rugby League competition, featuring teams from Group 18 Rugby League...

(NRRRL). Group 18 also still holds its own individual junior rugby league competition.

Teams

The following clubs are affiliated with Group 1 juniors, but run teams in the NRRRL competition:

• Ballina Seagulls
• Casino RSM
• Clarence Coast Magpies (as Lower Clarence in NRRRL)
• Evans Head Bombers
• Grafton Ghosts
• Kyogle Turkeys
• Lismore Marist Brothers Rams
• Northern United Dirrawongs
• South Grafton (as Grafton Rhinos in NRRRL)

The following teams in Group 1 field teams in junior competitions only.

• Lennox Head Dolphins
• South Lismore Rabbits
• Upper Clarence