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NATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE HISTORY The National Rugby League (NRL) is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL competition (sometimes referred to as the Telstra Premiership for sponsorship purposes) is contested by 16 teams, 15 based in Australia and one based in New Zealand, and is the Southern Hemisphere's elite rugby league championship. The premiership also boasts the world's highest attendance figures for a rugby club competition of either code and is generally regarded as the most competitive. In terms of Australia-wide television ratings it has the highest audiences for its Grand Final and sells the most merchandise of any Australian sports league. The National Rugby League is the present-day embodiment of Australia's top-level domestic rugby league competition which has been running continuously since 1908. The NRL formed in the aftermath of the 1990s' Super League war as a joint partnership between the sport's national governing body, the Australian Rugby League (ARL) and the News Corporation-controlled Super League after both organisations ran premierships parallel to each other in 1997. |
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