{"id":274520,"date":"2025-11-10T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274520\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:42:08","slug":"who-are-the-nrl-feeder-clubs-for-the-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274520\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the NRL feeder clubs for the 2026 season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Cowboys<\/a> in the north to the Storm<\/a> in the south, and everywhere in between, feeder clubs continue to play a crucial role in maintaining elite player development pathways for all 17 NRL clubs.<\/p>\n

While there hasn\u2019t been an NRL reserve grade competition since 2002 or U20 competition since 2017, most NSW-based clubs have enjoyed long-term development pathways thanks to fielding their own sides in the NSW Cup, Jersey Flegg, SG Ball and Harold Matthews competitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In other NRL markets such as Queensland and Melbourne things are a little more complicated, with alliances than can change from season to season.<\/p>\n

Here is a list of the known NRL feeder club arrangements for 2026.<\/p>\n

2026 NRL Feeder Clubs<\/p>\n

Brisbane Broncos<\/p>\n

Burleigh Bears, Souths Logan Magpies, Wynnum Manly Seagulls (Q Cup)<\/p>\n

Canberra Raiders<\/p>\n

Canberra Raiders<\/a> (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs<\/p>\n

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs<\/a> (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks<\/p>\n

Newtown Jets (NSW\u00a0Cup), Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks<\/a> (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

Dolphins<\/p>\n

Central Queensland Capras, Norths Devils, Redcliffe Dolphins<\/a> (Q Cup)<\/p>\n

Gold Coast Titans<\/p>\n

Ipswich\u00a0Jets, Tweed Seagulls (Q Cup)<\/p>\n

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles<\/p>\n

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles<\/a> (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

Melbourne Storm<\/p>\n

Melbourne Storm* (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

Newcastle Knights<\/p>\n

Newcastle Knights<\/a> (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

North Queensland Cowboys<\/p>\n

Mackay Cutters,\u00a0Northern Pride, Townsville Blackhawks* (Q Cup)<\/p>\n

Parramatta\u00a0Eels<\/p>\n

Parramatta Eels<\/a> (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

Penrith Panthers<\/p>\n

Penrith Panthers<\/a> (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

St George Illawarra Dragons<\/p>\n

St George Illawarra Dragons (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/p>\n

South Sydney\u00a0Rabbitohs (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

Sydney Roosters<\/p>\n

Sydney Roosters (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

New Zealand Warriors<\/p>\n

New Zealand Warriors (NSWRL)<\/p>\n

Wests Tigers<\/p>\n

Western Suburbs Magpies (NSW Cup), Wests Tigers (Jersey Flegg), Balmain Tigers (NSWRL other grades)<\/p>\n

* New feeder arrangement for 2026.<\/p>\n

Other NRL club affiliations<\/p>\n

Beyond these formal feeder arrangements some NRL teams also have additional pathway relationships that don\u2019t typically include player sharing during the season.<\/p>\n

One example is the Brisbane Broncos who have recently entered such an agreement with the Sunshine Coast Falcons for 2026 and 2027.<\/p>\n

The Queensland Rugby League is also considering allowing the Broncos, Cowboys and Titans\u00a0to have their own Q Cup reserve grade sides from 2027 or 2028 in a move that would bring them into alignment with the Dolphins who have been part of Brisbane\u2019s first-grade competition since 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the Cowboys in the north to the Storm in the south, and everywhere in between, feeder clubs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-274520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}