National Rugby League season 2007

Infobox rugby league season
year = 2007
competition = National Rugby League


imagesize = 125px
caption =
teams = 16
premiers = leagueicon|Melbourne|16 Melbourne
count = 2nd
minor premiers = leagueicon|Melbourne|16 Melbourne
mpcount = 2nd
matches = 201
points = 8539
attendance = 3331994
top points scorer = leagueicon|Canterbury Bulldogs|16 Hazem El Masri (210)
top try scorer = leagueicon|North Queensland|16 Matthew Bowen (22)The 2007 National Rugby League premiership was the one hundredth season of professional rugby league football club competition in Australia, and the tenth run by the National Rugby League. Sixteen teams contested the 2007 Telstra Premiership, and with the inclusion of a new team, the Gold Coast Titans, the competition was the largest run since 1999.

The Melbourne Storm were the Minor Premiers in 2007, six points clear of second-placed Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. The Storm eventually ran out 34-8 winners in the Grand Final, and were crowned champions for season 2007.

eason summary

chedule

The 2007 NRL Season kicked off on Friday 16 March 2007 with eight games to be played in each round. The 2007 season saw the return of Monday night football, with the first clash between the Sydney Roosters and South Sydney Rabbitohs on 19 March 2007. The opening round also saw two matches at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, one featured reigning champions Brisbane playing fellow Queensland side the Cowboys, while the second match introduced the newest club to be admitted to the competition, the Gold Coast Titans. The finals series was contested over a period of four weeks, culminating with the NRL Grand Final being held on Sunday 30 September 2007.

Teams had fewer byes in 2007 than in the 2006 competition. With an odd number of teams contesting between 2002 and 2006, the draw meant that at least one team would have to have a bye each weekend. With the inclusion of the 16th team for the 2007 season, the National Rugby League had the option of reverting back to the system used between 2000 and 2001 in which every team played in each round, however this option was not chosen. In 2007, teams had just a single bye during the year, grouped in periods that will assist clubs around representative fixtures.

Participants

Of the sixteen teams that participated in the regular season, ten teams were from New South Wales (nine from Sydney's metropolitan area), three from Queensland and one from each of Victoria, the ACT and New Zealand. The Gold Coast Titans became the NRL's newest team (not including mergers) since the Melbourne Storm who entered the League in 1998.

Grand Final

Footnotes

ee also

*National Rugby League
*2007 Rugby League State of Origin series
*2007 Australian football code crowds
*2007 NRL Finals Series

External links

* [http://rugbyleagueproject.com/competitions/NRL_2007.html 2007 NRL season at rugbyleagueproject.com]
* [http://stats.rleague.com/rl/seas/2007.html 2007 NRL season at stats.rleague.com]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rugbyleague/scores/2007/nrl/default.htm 2007 NRL season at abc.net.au]