5 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] gives the attendance as 1,874 but Widnes official archives[3] gives it as 2,000 4 * Hilton Park was the home ground of Leigh 7 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] gives the attendance as 15,070 but Widnes official archives[3] gives it as 15,023 Sixteen clubs competed for the J J Giltinan Shield and Winfield Cup premiership during the season, which culminated in a replay of the previous year's grand final between the Canberra Raiders and the Penrith Panthers. 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This season saw two "name" changes and one of the three junior clubs being replaced by a new league club. The attendance was 15,070. and erase chequered past", Penrith City Sporting Heritage - Rugby League, 1991 J J Giltinan Shield and Winfield Cup at rleague.com, NSWRL season 1991 at rugbyleagueproject.com, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1991_NSWRL_season&oldid=978127205, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Articles with dead external links from May 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 September 2020, at 02:18. 6 * Valley Parade was originally the home of Manningham Rugby League Football Club until 1903, when they changed name and codes and became Bradford City A.F.C. This was the twenty-first season of rugby league's League Cup competition, known as the Regal Trophy for sponsorship purposes. The competition was dropped due to "fixture congestion" when Rugby League became a summer sport The attendance was 15,070. In later seasons the entries were expanded to take in other amateur and French teams. This year the New South Wales Rugby League experimented with a draft system for the first time. The winners were Hull FC. The 1991 Rugby League Premiership was the 17th end-of-season Rugby League Premiership competition. Note - the author is unable to trace the award amounts for this season. Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point, As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows :-. 8 * Central Park was the home ground of Wigan with a final capacity of 18,000, although the record attendance was 47,747 for Wigan v St Helens 27 March 1959. 3 * Leigh East are a Junior (amateur) club from Leigh[14] Widnes won the final, beating Leeds by the score of 24-0. 2039, "Roycie, the good guy who finished first", "My grand final: Greg Alexander relives Penrith v Canberra, 1991", "Why losing and being beaten are not the same", "Stuart could only watch Brandy's premier moment", "Panthers ask 'why not?' A complete wrap of the 1991 NSWRL season. Can anyone help ? Penrith: 12: 10: 1: 1: 246: 134 +112 As this was being formulated, sports sponsorship was becoming more prevalent and as a result John Player and Sons, a division of Imperial Tobacco Company, became sponsors, and the competition never became widely known as the "League Cup" The changes were :- The preliminary round involved twelve clubs, to reduce the numbers to entrants to the first round proper to thirty-two. This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures, 1 * Saddleworth Rangers are a Junior (amateur) club from Oldham The match was played at Central Park, Wigan. 1 Runcorn Highfield became Highfield and now played at Hoghton Road Stadium in Sutton, a suburb of St. Helens and home to St Helens Town A.F.C. It was to be a similar knock-out structure to, and to be secondary to, the Challenge Cup. The competition was variably known, by its sponsorship name, as the Player's No.6 Trophy (1971–1977), the John Player Trophy (1977–1983), the John Player Special Trophy (1983–1989), and the Regal Trophy in 1989. 2 * Watersheddings was the home ground of Oldham Home Away Overall; Team P W L D F A PD P W L D F A PD P W L D F A Pts PD; 1. The 1991 NSWRL season was the eighty-fourth season of professional rugby league football in Australia. Widnes won the final, beating Leeds by the score of 24-0. The match was played at Central Park, Wigan. The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final usually taking place in late January (although signing a 99-year lease, the club moved on after 4½ years after a proposed rent increase made a stay unviable - Fulham became London Crusaders but were still nomadic, although playing many home matches at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre before settling at Barnet Copthall for season 1993-94 The competition ran from 1971-72 until 1995-96 and was initially intended for the professional clubs plus the two amateur BARLA National Cup finalists. 2 Scarborough Pirates joined the league and the competition (albeit for a very brief one season stay before going into administration), taking the place of one of the junior teams- The number of entrants remained the same at thirty-eight. This was the twenty-first season of rugby league's League Cup competition, known as the Regal Trophy for sponsorship purposes. The council of the Rugby Football League voted to introduce a new competition, to be similar to The Football Association and Scottish Football Association's "League Cup".