NSWRL SG Ball Cup

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**NSWRL S.G. Ball Cup**
General Information

First Season	1965
Website	[[1]]
2006 Season
Premiers	Penrith Panthers
Runners-Up	South Sydney
Minor Premiers	Parramatta Eels
Wooden spoon	North Sydney Bears
2007 Season
Premiers	unknown
Runners-Up	unknown
Minor Premiers	unknown
Wooden spoon	unknown

The NSWRL S.G. Ball Cup is a junior rugby league competition played in New South Wales, played between teams made up of players aged under 18. The competition is administered by the NSWRL. The competition, which in 2007 will be made up of 14 NSW-based clubs, includes both junior representative teams of NRL and NSWRL Premier League clubs that do not field a team in the NRL competition.

The S. G. Ball Cup is so named for S. G. (George) Ball, one of the five people responsible for the formation of South Sydney and its secretary for over fifty years. Known as one of the games greatest administrators, his memory was honoured in 1965 when the NSWRL instituted the cup named for him in 1965, for players under 15 years of age, changed to under 16 in 1978.

In 2007, sixteen clubs will field teams in the NSWRL S.G. Ball Cup.

Year	Premiers
1965	South Sydney
1966	Parramatta
1967	Parramatta
1968	Parramatta
1969	South Sydney
1970	St. George
1971	Western Suburbs
1972	Canterbury-Bankstown
1973	Parramatta
1974	South Sydney
1975	South Sydney
1976	South Sydney
1977	Penrith
1978	Canterbury-Bankstown
1979	South Sydney
1980	South Sydney
1981	Penrith
1982	Balmain
1983	Parramatta
1984	St. George
1985	Penrith
1986	South Sydney
1987	Parramatta
1988	Parramatta
1989	Illawarra
1990	Newcastle Knights
1991	Parramatta
1992	St. George
1993	Parramatta
1994	South Sydney
1995	Canberra
1996	Illawarra
1997	Sydney City Roosters
1998	South Sydney
1999	Parramatta
2000	Penrith
2001	Newcastle Knights
2002	Western Suburbs
2003	Penrith
2004	Newcastle Knights
2005	Canberra
2006	Penrith