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National Women's Rugby Championship

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Sport
  
Rugby union football

Number of teams
  
8

Holders
  
Sydney (2015)

Instituted
  
c. 2000

Country
  
Australia

The National Women's Championship is the highest-tier competition of women's rugby union in Australia.

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The annual tournament is contested by teams from every state, except Tasmania, and acts as a selection tool for the Wallaroos national team that competes for Australia at the Women's Rugby World Cup.

Teams

The teams that compete for the National Women's Championship, as of 2013, are:

  • ACT and Southern New South Wales
  • Australian Services
  • New South Wales Country
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Sydney
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

    • Champions

    The tournament has been contested from at least 2000 onwards.

    Winners of the National Women's Championship (since 2003):

  • 2003 Sydney Gold
  • 2004 Sydney White
  • 2005 Sydney Gold
  • 2006 Queensland
  • 2007 Sydney
  • 2008 Sydney
  • 2009 Queensland
  • 2010 Sydney
  • 2011 Queensland
  • 2012 Sydney
  • 2013 Sydney
  • 2014 not held
  • 2015 Sydney
  • 2016 Sydney

    • References

    National Women's Rugby Championship Wikipedia
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