Sport Rugby league Inaugural season 1958 Country Australia | Instituted 1958 Number of teams 9 Premiers Mudgee Dragons (2016) | |
Group 10 is a rugby league competition in the Central West area of New South Wales, run under the auspices of the Country Rugby League. Games in the Competition are usually played on Sundays with some Saturday night matches. There are currently 9 Clubs based in the competition playing across the 4 Senior Grades including women's league tag and a total of 15 clubs fielding sides in several junior Grades.
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Bathurst is the centre of the Group and has hosted many top level matches whilst Orange has hosted an international event featuring the touring English side. Many former Group 10 players have progressed to the NRL, including Royce Simmons, Andrew Farrar, Paul Dunn, Barry Rushworth, Darren Britt and Tom Raudonikis. Current NRL players that have played in the competition include George Rose, Jack Wighton, Daniel Mortimer, Corin Smith and James Baillie (Titans Under 20s).
The competition is one of many Group competitions in the NSWCRL sponsored by the beer company Tooheys New. Other notable sponsors of the Group 10 Rugby League competition include the Bathurst Panthers League Club, 2LT Radio Lithgow, David Scott Builder, Ian Parker Motors, Clancy Motors Bathurst and Hahn Premium Light. The Group President is Linore Zamparini. In the 2010 season, the premiers of the Group 10 premier league competition were Orange CYMS, first division were Bathurst St Pat's and under 18s were Bathurst Panthers.
Centennial Coal Cup
The Centennial Coal Cup is the second tier division contested in the Group 10 area. The 2013 sides were:
Many representative rugby league games have been called in the surrounding areas with the latest being an NRL trial match in Orange in February 2016 played between Canberra and Newcastle which was broadcast and called by Curtis Woodward, Lewis Shepperd and Luke Potter.