Penrith District Rugby League

Penrith District Rugby League
Current season or competition: 2015 Penrith District Rugby League
Sport	Rugby league
Ceased	1912
Number of teams	21
Region	Penrith, New South Wales (New South Wales Rugby League)
Premiers	Brothers Penrith (2014 Penrith District Rugby League season)
Related competition	Sydney Combined Competition

The Penrith District Junior Rugby League (PDJRL) is an amateur rugby league competition for senior and junior rugby league clubs in the Penrith, Blacktown, and Blue Mountains area.

The competition was founded in 1912 and grew gradually as more clubs from the surrounding areas entered the competition. The first Penrith club were the Waratahs and adopted the blue and white colours, playing out of Penrith Showground. When the Parramatta District Rugby League was formed all the teams from the Penrith and surrounding areas affiliated and played in the Parramatta League. During the early-1960s the NSWRL Second Division was formed where a team from Penrith began playing, in 1967 the now Penrith Panthers were promoted to the NSWRL First Grade competition in that year the following clubs were invited to enter the Penrith District Junior Rugby League; Blacktown, Blacktown Workers, Blacktown St Patricks, Emu Plains, Londonderry Mount Druitt, Penrith Waratahs, Riverstone, Rooty Hill, Richmond, Springwood, Windsor, Warragamba, Warrimoo and St Marys.

The number of clubs in the 1970s grew gradually and more than doubled to 32 clubs. During the late-1980s it was decided to reduce number of clubs to 22. Some teams were either merged or became standalone clubs;

• Blacktown Leagues and Blacktown RSL became Blacktown City.
• Springwood and Warrimoo became Lower Mountains.
• Colo, Richmond and North Richmond became Hawkesbury City.
• Colyton and St. Clair became separate clubs.
• Blackett and Hebersham became Mt Druitt City.
• Tregear and Whalan became Wests Mt Druitt.

District clubs

See also

• Balmain District Junior Rugby League
• Manly-Warringah/North Sydney District Rugby League
• South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League
• Sydney Roosters Juniors

References

External links

• Penrith District Rugby League

Rugby league in New South Wales
Federations	New South Wales Rugby League Country Rugby League New South Wales Women's Rugby League
Representative competitions	City vs Country Origin Women's City vs Country Origin
Representative teams	New South Wales Blues City Origin Team Country Origin Team NSW residents New South Wales women's
NRL clubs	Canberra Raiders Canterbury Bulldogs Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Parramatta Eels Penrith Panthers St. George Illawarra Dragons South Sydney Rabbitohs Sydney Roosters Wests Tigers
Competitions	NSWRL: Intrust Super Premiership NSW Ron Massey Cup Sydney Shield SG Ball Harold Matthews Cup CRL: Canberra Central Coast Illawarra Newcastle Northern Rivers Sunraysia-Riverlands Region 1: 2 3 Region 2: 4 19 21 Region 3: 9 20 Region 4: 10 11 14 Region 5: 6 7 16 Women's: Sydney Metropolitan Women's Rugby League Tarsha Gale Nines Tertiary: NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League
Discontinued competitions	Jersey Flegg Cup NSWRL premiership Amco Cup