2018 NSW Cup season

The 2018 Intrust Super Premiership NSW season was the tenth 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 winner of the Premiership, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, competed against the winner of the 2018 Queensland Cup, the Redcliffe Dolphins in the 2018 NRL State Championship, which they won 42-18. The Penrith Panthers were the defending champions, following their 20-12 victory against the Wyong Roos in the 2017 Grand Final.

Teams

In 2018, 12 clubs fielded teams in the Intrust Super Premiership. Illawarra RLFC were renamed to the St George Illawarra Dragons to bring the club in line with the NRL’s ‘whole of game’ strategy, that will also see top-grade squads increased from 25 players to 30.
An under-20s competition will be run in parallel to the New South Wales Cup.

Colours	Team	NRL Feeder Club
	Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles	Manly warringah Sea Eagles
	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
	Mount Pritchard Mounties	Canberra Raiders
	New Zealand Warriors	New Zealand Warriors
	Newcastle Knights	Newcastle Knights
	Newtown Jets	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
	North Sydney Bears	South Sydney Rabbitohs
	Penrith Panthers	Penrith Panthers
	St George Illawarra Dragons	St George Illawarra Dragons
	Wentworthville Magpies	Parramatta Eels
	Western Suburbs Magpies	Wests Tigers
	Wyong Roos	Sydney Roosters

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As premiers of the NSW Cup, the Cannterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs faced Queensland Cup premiers Redcliffe Dolphins in the NRL State Championship match.

Fox League will continue to broadcast a game per round, however Channel 9 will also be broadcasting a game per round starting with the 2018 for the first time.