The 2018 Women's State of Origin was the first State of Origin

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match between the

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women's teams played at North Sydney Oval on 22 June 2018. The game was the first played under the State of Origin banner. Prior to 2018, the teams played each other annually in the Women's Interstate Challenge before being rebranded as State of Origin. New South Wales defeated Queensland 16–10 to record their third straight win over the Maroons. New South Wales

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was awarded the Nellie Doherty Medal for Player of the Match.

Background

On 6 December 2017, the National Rugby League announced that the Women's Interstate Challenge, which ran from 1999 to 2017, would be rebranded as the Women's State of Origin. The game which, was previously played as a curtain-raiser, would now be a standalone fixture broadcast on the

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and Fox Sports.

Teams

Match summary

References

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