# 2019 NSW Cup season

The 2019 Canterbury Cup NSW season was the eleventh season of the New South Wales Cup, the top rugby league competition administered by the New South Wales Rugby League. The competition acts as a second-tier league to the ten New South Wales-based National Rugby League clubs, as well the Canberra Raiders and New Zealand Warriors. The Newtown Jets won the premiership and played against Burleigh Bears, who won the 2019 Intrust Super Cup, in the NRL State Championship.

## Teams

In 2019, 12 clubs fielded teams in the Canterbury Cup. The South Sydney Rabbitohs will enter their own team, and the North Sydney Bears will become the reigning premiers Sydney Roosters' new feeder club.
The Jersey Flegg Cup competition will be run in parallel to the New South Wales Cup.
| Team | Home Ground(s) | Head Coach(s) | NRL Feeder Club |
| Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles | Brookvale Oval H.E. Laybutt Sports Complex | | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles |
| Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | Belmore Sports Ground | | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs |
| Mount Pritchard Mounties | Aubrey Keech Reserve & GIO Stadium | | Canberra Raiders |
| New Zealand Warriors | Mount Smart Stadium | | New Zealand Warriors |
| Newcastle Knights | McDonald Jones Stadium | | Newcastle Knights |
| Newtown Jets | Henson Park Shark Park | | Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks |
| North Sydney Bears | North Sydney Oval | | Sydney Roosters |
| Penrith Panthers | Panthers Stadium | | Penrith Panthers |
| South Sydney Rabbitohs | ANZ Stadium Redfern Oval | Shane Millard | South Sydney Rabbitohs |
| St George Illawarra Dragons | WIN Stadium Jubilee Oval | Mathew Head | St George Illawarra Dragons |
| Wentworthville Magpies | Ringrose Park Western Sydney Stadium | | Parramatta Eels |
| Western Suburbs Magpies | Campbelltown Stadium Leichhardt Oval | | Wests Tigers |

## Ladder

2019 Canterbury Cup NSW :
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | St George Illawarra Dragons | 22 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 588 | 421 | +167 | 31 |
| 2 | South Sydney Rabbitohs | 22 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 542 | 462 | +80 | 30 |
| 3 | North Sydney Bears | 22 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 508 | 451 | +57 | 28 |
| 4 | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 22 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 501 | 500 | +1 | 27 |
| 5 | Penrith Panthers | 22 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 494 | 474 | +20 | 26 |
| 6 | Mount Pritchard Mounties | 22 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 584 | 515 | +69 | 25 |
| 7 | Newtown Jets (P) | 22 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 536 | 536 | 0 | 25 |
| 8 | Wentworthville Magpies | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 494 | 485 | 9 | 24 |
| 9 | New Zealand Warriors | 22 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 416 | 451 | −35 | 22 |
| 10 | Western Suburbs Magpies | 22 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 447 | 502 | −55 | 19 |
| 11 | Newcastle Knights | 22 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 336 | 494 | −158 | 16 |
| 12 | Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles | 22 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 460 | 615 | −155 | 15 |

## Finals Series

| Home | Score | Away | Match Information | Match Information | Match Information | Match Information |
| Home | Score | Away | Date and Time | Venue | Referee(s) | Crowd |
| QUALIFYING AND ELIMINATION FINALS |||||||
| Penrith Panthers | 16 – 34 | Wentworthville Magpies | Saturday 7 September | Campbelltown Stadium | | 1,000 |
| Mount Pritchard Mounties | 20 – 44 | Newtown Jets | Saturday 7 September | Campbelltown Stadium | | 1,000 |
| St George Illawarra Dragons | 24 – 22 | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | Sunday 8 September | Campbelltown Stadium | | 1,000 |
| South Sydney Rabbitohs | 32 – 12 | North Sydney Bears | Sunday 8 September | Campbelltown Stadium | | 1,000 |
| SEMI-FINALS |||||||
| Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 20 – 26 | Wentworthville Magpies | Saturday 14 September | Leichhardt Oval | | 1,000 |
| North Sydney Bears | 28 – 30 | Newtown Jets | Sunday 15 September | Leichhardt Oval | | 2,000 |
| PRELIMINARY FINALS |||||||
| South Sydney Rabbitohs | 10 – 35 | Wentworthville Magpies | Saturday 21 September | Netstrata Jubilee Stadium | | 1,000 |
| St George Illawarra Dragons | 20 – 22 | Newtown Jets | Sunday 22 September | Netstrata Jubilee Stadium | | 3,000 |
| GRAND FINAL |||||||
| Newtown Jets | 20 – 15 | Wentworthville Magpies | Sunday 29 September | Bankwest Stadium | | 5,700 |

## NRL State Championship

As premiers of the NSW Cup, the Newtown Jets faced Queensland Cup premiers Burleigh Bears in the NRL State Championship match.
* Sunday, 6 October 1:35pm (AEDT)
| Newtown Jets | 20 – 16 | Burleigh Bears |
| Tries: Sione Katoa (54', 76') 2 Jackson Ferris (63', 80') 2 Goals: Braydon Trindall 1/4 (19' pen) Greg Eastwood 1/1 (80') Sin Bin: Ronaldo Mulitalo (38') | 1st: 2 – 10 2nd: 18 – 6 | Tries: 2 (22', 30') Anthony Don 1 (47') Jamal Fogarty Goals: 2/3 Jamal Fogarty (32', 48') |
* ANZ Stadium, Sydney Referee: Todd Smith, Tyson Brough

## Television Broadcast

Fox League and Channel 9 will continue their broadcast of the Canterbury Cup. Channel 9 will be moving their weekly game from Saturday to Sunday to move between their broadcast of the Sunday Footy Show and their Sunday Afternoon NRL Broadcast for the NSW market, whilst in QLD they will broadcast an Intrust Super Cup match.

## Radio Broadcast

The Canterbury Cup is presented every weekend on Steele Sports.