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The National Women's Championship was the highest-tier competition of
women's rugby union Women's rugby union is a full contact team sport based on running with the ball in hand. The same laws are used in men's rugby union with the same sized pitch and same equipment. Rugby was originally a men's sport, and women's rugby has become p ...
in
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through the 2017 season. It was superseded as the top level of the women's sport by the new
Super W The Super W is a women's rugby union competition held in Australia. The inaugural season was in 2018, when it replaced the former National Women's Rugby Championship. The are the most successful team so far, . Teams Six women's rugby teams c ...
competition from the 2018 season forward. The annual tournament was contested by teams from every state except Tasmania. The Championship also acted as a selection tool for the
Australia women's national rugby union team The Australia women's national rugby union team, also known as the Wallaroos, has competed at all Women's Rugby World Cups since 1998, with their best result finishing in third place in 2010. Australian women have been playing rugby since the ...
, that competes at the
Women's Rugby World Cup The Rugby World Cup is the women's rugby union world championship which is organised by World Rugby. The first Rugby World Cup for women was held in 1991, but it was not until the 1998 tournament that the tournament received official backing ...
.


Teams

The teams that competed for the National Women's Championship, as of 2013, were: * ACT and Southern New South Wales * New South Wales Country * Northern Territory * Queensland * South Australia * Sydney * Victoria * Western Australia


Champions

The tournament was contested from 1996 onwards until the 2017 season. Winners of the National Women's Championship: *1996 Queensland *1997 Queensland *1998 Queensland *1999 New South Wales *2000 New South Wales *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 *2017 Sydney


See also

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Australia women's national rugby union team The Australia women's national rugby union team, also known as the Wallaroos, has competed at all Women's Rugby World Cups since 1998, with their best result finishing in third place in 2010. Australian women have been playing rugby since the ...
*
Australia women's national rugby sevens team The Australia women's national rugby sevens team, are the Australia national rugby sevens team of women. They were champions of the inaugural Women's Sevens World Cup in 2009. The team plays in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series a ...
*
Super W The Super W is a women's rugby union competition held in Australia. The inaugural season was in 2018, when it replaced the former National Women's Rugby Championship. The are the most successful team so far, . Teams Six women's rugby teams c ...
*
Women's rugby union in Australia A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardle ...


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* {{Sports leagues of Australia Women's rugby union competitions in Australia
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2000 establishments in Australia Sports leagues established in 2000
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