The J.J. Giltinan Shield is an Australian
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 11 ...
trophy, awarded annually to the
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...
minor premiers. It was named after
James J. Giltinan who was central to the founding of
rugby league in Australia
Rugby league in Australia has been one of Australia's most popular sports since it started being played there in 1908. It is the dominant winter football code in the states of New South Wales and Queensland. In 2009, it was the most watched spor ...
.
Giltinan died in 1950 and the Shield was created for the following season in his honour, first introduced for the
1951 New South Wales Rugby Football League season. From 1951, the Shield was awarded to the winner of the
New South Wales Rugby League
The New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) is the governing body of rugby league in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and is a member of the Australian Rugby League Commission. It was formed in Sydney on 8 August 1907 and was ...
(NSWRL)
Grand Final
Primarily in Australian sports, a grand final (sometimes colloquially abbreviated to "grannie") is a game that decides a sports league's premiership (or championship) winning team, i.e. the conclusive game of a finals (or play-off) series. S ...
, replacing the ''
Labor Daily
The ''Labor Daily'' was a Sydney-based journal/newspaper of the early to mid 20th century. An organ of the Australian Labor Party, it was published in Sydney by Stanley Roy Wasson after the ailing ''Daily Mail'' was absorbed by Labor Papers Ltd, w ...
'' Cup. In addition to the Shield, premiership winning teams received the
W. D. & H. O. Wills Cup from 1960 to 1981, the
Winfield Cup
The Winfield Cup was an Australian rugby league trophy awarded to the winner of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership (NSWRL) Grand Final from 1982 to 1994, and then to the winner of the newly-founded Australian Rugby League (ARL) Grand Fin ...
from 1982 to 1995, and the
Optus Cup in 1996. Since 1997 the J.J. Giltinan Shield has been awarded to the competition's
minor premiers.
Winners
1 The
Melbourne Storm
The Melbourne Storm are a rugby league club based in Melbourne, Victoria in Australia that participates in the National Rugby League. The first fully professional rugby league team based in the state, the Storm entered the competition in 1998. ...
were stripped of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 minor premierships on 22 April 2010 due to
salary cap breaches.
See also
References
External links
NSWRL Premiership at rleague.com
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Rugby league trophies and awards
Rugby league in Australia
National Rugby League