"[27], Of the 38 full series played, Queensland has won 21, New South Wales 15, with 2 series drawn (Queensland retained the Shield on both occasions as the previous year's winner). This provided New South Wales football clubs with a revenue source unmatched by Queensland clubs. The series will be played on consecutive Wednesday nights in November (4-11-18), with the venues for the three fixtures designated as: Adelaide Oval, ANZ Sydney and Suncorp Brisbane. Thousands of tickets were sold before the game had been officially sanctioned. The most recent case of a foreign-born player being selected was the selection of former Samoan international, Ben Te'o, by Queensland in game three of the 2012 season. [1], Since the beginning of Australian rugby league in 1908, an interstate competition between New South Wales and Queensland has been conducted from time to time. Whilst other Australian states also have representative rugby league teams, they have not competed in the State of Origin. At the end of the 1925 season, a Kangaroo team was to be picked for touring Great Britain. [22][23] It also draws a strong following in neighbouring New Zealand.[24]. Queensland won the series 34–24 in the 2011 decider in what was Queensland captain Darren Lockyer's 36th and final game. Since the 1908 establishment of rugby league in Australia, the sport's two major states, New South Wales and Queensland, have played representative matches against each other which have continued into the "state of origin" era which began in the 1980s. The first of these interstate games was played at Sydney's Agricultural Ground on 11 July 1908, before Queensland had even commenced its club competition. Queensland full back Billy Slater won the man of the match in the third game and was awarded the Wally Lewis Medal as Man of the Series in 2010. During the early years the overall series results remained relatively even, however, Queensland surged ahead between 2006 and 2017, winning 11 out of 12 series. The end of the decade saw a dramatic series with each side taking one game each and game three ending in a draw. Most consecutive games won: 8, Queensland (Game II, Most consecutive series won: 8, Queensland (, Most series clean sweeps: 4, Queensland (, This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 21:31. In Game 3, New South Wales went in with an unchanged lineup for all three games, the first to do so since 1996.

Other players, such as Sam Kasiano and Jason Taumalolo are also eligible, creating concern in the New Zealand Rugby League. Cameron Smith won the man of the match in both the first and third game and was awarded the Wally Lewis Medal as Man of the Series. If the third game was to decide the series it was not to act as a selection trial, and also, that the expatriate Queenslanders would be under the supervision of a representative of the NSWRFL whose duty it would be to protect the interests of both the NSWRFL and the clubs to which they were contracted. The Wally Lewis Medal was awarded by the Queensland Rugby League for the Queensland player of the series from 1992 to 2003, when The Ron McAuliffe Medal replaced it as the Queensland exclusive award. in 1987 was counted as an official match but a search of ARL records has confirmed the status conferred on that clash by the game's governing body at the time. From 1922 to 1925 Queensland defeated New South Wales 11 times in 12 matches. [5], The New South Wales dominance of interstate football increased after 1956 when gaming machines were legalized for all registered clubs in New South Wales. The local media were unimpressed. In 2018, New South Wales won their first State of Origin series in four years, defeating Queensland 22–12 and 18–14 in the first two games. From 1956–1981, NSW dominance soared even higher and Qld wins dwindled to only 3.8% with only 1 series win, in 1959. [4] The period spanning 1922 to 1929 saw no Australian team play in Great Britain, the only such hiatus outside the two World Wars. Club teams; International teams; Rugby League. The series of 1999 and 2002 are considered drawn series, as both New South Wales and Queensland won a single game of each 3 match series, with the final game concluding in a draw. View fans shirts or buy the latest kit. Since 1980, Queensland has completed just the 7 series with a team completely made up of players of a Queensland birth, while for New South Wales the total is only 6. An issue of contention has been the selection of players such as Peter Sterling, Ken Nagas, James McManus, Israel Folau and Greg Inglis. It wasn't until the upheaval of the Super League war in 1995 that the Maroons were able to again clinch a series. Despite the Maroons' success so far in the State of Origin experiments, the New South Wales media dismissed the seriousness of the Queensland threat to the Blues' long-held dominance in series wins.

Teams. Within Australia, Nine Network is the main broadcaster for the series, with replays airing on Fox Sports. In 2014, New South Wales defeated Queensland 12–8 in the first game of the series, and 6–4 in the second. Ron MacAullife however, was now committed to the concept and vigorously promoted the match. New South Wales easily accounted for Queensland in a 43–0 victory.

These were the colors of the Australia national rugby league team's jersey until the adoption of the green and gold. In 2010, Queensland won its historic, record-breaking, fifth consecutive Origin series with a 23–18 win in the third and final match. The players play for the Nellie Doherty Cup.

The interest generated by the experimental state of origin matches of 1980 and 1981 and the potential for financial rewards were enough to convince the authorities to play all three games under the state of origin rules the following year.[14].

Queensland continued to follow this up by winning the first two games of the 2009 series becoming the first state to win four series in a row. [18] In recent years the series has gained popularity outside of New South Wales and Queensland, with games played in Melbourne drawing record crowds for rugby league[19] and local television ratings comparable to those of some Victorian AFL matches. Queensland have won 62, New South Wales have won 53, with 2 matches being drawn.[36]. It also had Johnathan Thurston raise the Origin Shield with Queensland Captain Cameron Smith, before being chaired off the ground by his teammates, ending Thurston's representative career on a high note. The State of Origin format is the only possible way to allow the interstate series to survive. [13], I was strongly against such a match, but last night's gripping clash showed that such a fixture would be a welcome addition to the League program.[13].

In both 1980 and 1981, there were two interstate matches under the old selection rules and one experimental "State of Origin" match. Tamou's selection by New South Wales in 2012 was controversial as he was born in Palmerston North and played for the Junior Kiwis, lived in New Zealand until he moved to Sydney when he was 13 and was included in the New Zealand national rugby league team training squad for the 2011 Four Nations. The 2013 series set a new State of Origin television rating record for a whole series since the 2001 introduction of the rating system.[15]. The match was played at the Veterans Memorial Stadium in Long Beach, California in front of 12,349 fans. In the second game, New South Wales defeated Queensland 18–8. In 2013, New South Wales defeated Queensland 14 to 6 in game 1, Queensland defeated New South Wales 26 to 6 in game 2, while in-game 3 Queensland defeated New South Wales 12 to 10 to take out the overall Origin title for the eighth consecutive time. The teams were selected using origin rules, and New South Wales and Queensland met twice. Although interstate matches in Brisbane had still been well attended (24,653 had attended the opening match of the 1979 series), few expected the sell-out crowd of 33,210 Queensland rugby league fans, delighted to see their heroes in the likes of Arthur Beetson representing their home state for the first time. The New South Wales team are sometimes referred to by the nickname "Cockroaches" and the Queensland team as "Cane Toads", due to names given to them by Barry Muir and Johnny Raper respectively. As the great Queensland players from the 1980s began to retire from the game, the Maroons struggled with a team of fresh faces and considerable inexperience.

New South Wales clubs were reticent in their support of the concept and set two conditions: Three Sydney clubs remained opposed to the plan: St. George Dragons, South Sydney Rabbitohs and Eastern Suburbs Roosters. The Queensland Rugby League selected him based on the fact that either Wavell State High School or Brisbane Norths was Inglis' first senior football, making him eligible for both states per the rules at the time. State of Origin. New Zealand has had several players, such as Brad Thorn, Ben Te'o, Craig Smith, Willie Mason, Tonie Carroll, James Tamou and Karmichael Hunt play Origin. The State of Origin series is an annual best-of-three rugby league matches between two Australian state representative sides, the New South Wales Blues and the Queensland Maroons. Despite this, the Queenslanders won the 1995 series 3–0 in a shocking white-wash. Queensland however, under the leadership of immortal captain Wally Lewis, was inspired by this, and for the first three State of Origin series, Queensland won 2 matches to 1. However, this imbalance tipped in the third and deciding game of the 2006 State of Origin series, which is seen as the starting point of Queensland's unprecedented dynasty. Home > Sports > List > Rugby League > Competitions > State of Origin. Players are selected to represent the Australian state in which they played their first senior rugby league game. "What if we recall our boys from Sydney to play, and we are beaten. In 1900 a journalist known as 'The Cynic' wrote in The Referee that star rugby player and recent immigrant to Queensland, Stephen Spragg, should be able to play for his home state of New South Wales.

Queensland dominated the Blues, winning 22–6, with Queensland winger Dane Gagai winning the Wally Lewis Medal for Best Player in the series.