Group 7 Rugby League

South Coast Group 7 Rugby League is the divisional boundary drawn from the Southern Illawarra and South Coast regions of New South Wales, Australia and is governed by the NSWCRL. The main competition,, comprises ten teams from across the region. Group 7 Rugby League also administers Reserve Grade, Third Grade and Under-18's competitions, Ladies League Tag, as well as looking over many junior competitions.

Teams

There are Ten teams competing in the 2018 South Coast Group 7 VB First Grade Competition:

					-	-	-	-
Albion Park-Oak Flats Eagles Albion Park, NSW Ground: Centenary Field First season: 1933	Stingrays of Shellharbour Shellharbour, NSW Ground: Flinders Field First season: 2017	Berry-Shoalhaven Heads Magpies Berry, NSW Ground: Berry Showground First season: 1914	Gerringong Lions Gerringong, NSW Ground: Michael Cronin Oval First season: 1914	Jamberoo Superoos Jamberoo, NSW Ground: Kevin Walsh Oval First season: 1914	-	-	-	-
Kiama Knights Kiama, NSW Ground: Kiama Showground First season: 1914	Milton-Ulladulla Bulldogs Mollymook, NSW Ground: Bill Andriske Oval First season: 1930s	Nowra-Bomaderry Jets Nowra, NSW Ground: Nowra Showground First season: 2008	Warilla-Lake South Gorillas Lake Illawarra, NSW Ground: Cec Glenholmes Oval First season: 1970	Shellharbour Sharks Shellharbour, New South Wales\|Shellharbour, NSW Ground: Ron Costello Oval Showground First season: 1920

All ten First Grade clubs, plus Mt Warrigal and Sussex Inlet, also field Women's League Tag teams. This competition has been running since 2010, and in 2019 comprises two divisions. There are eight teams in each division.
In Reserve Grade, one extra teams participates in an eleven team competition:

Robertson Spuddies

Along with Jamberoo and Robertson, the following clubs participate in a six team Third Grade competition:

Culburra Dolphins
Mt Warrigal Kooris
Sussex Inlet Panthers
Wreck Bay Bears
Former teams
Batemans Bay Tigers
Bay and Basin United
Bomaderry Swamp Rats
Bombo
Crookhaven Magpies
Kangaroo Valley
Naval College / White Ensign / Albatross
Nowra Warriors
Port Kembla Blacks 2013 to 2017
Pyree
St Michaels / Nowra Saints
Foundation clubs

Of the original eight teams that competed in the inaugural competition in 1914, only four teams remain playing in first grade. They are the Berry Magpies, Gerringong Lions, Jamberoo Superoos, and Kiama Knights. The Nowra Warriors were also a foundation club, but due to financial reasons were forced to merge with the Bomaderry Swamp Rats in 2007. The merger created the team Shoalhaven Jets, which was renamed Nowra-Bomaderry Jets in 2012.

New teams

There have been a few teams to expand into the Group 7 Rugby League First Grade Premiership. Through the 20s–30s Albion Park were founded, joined the Illawarra Rugby League and returned to Group 7 in 1933. The Shellharbour Sharks are known to have joined the league at this time. Milton-Ulladulla Bulldogs also joined from Group 16 Rugby League. The Warilla-Lake South Gorillas were first introduced into First Grade during the 1970s and in 1978 the Batemans Bay Tigers were another team to move from Group 16.

Clubs Timeline

The graph below shows the participation of all current and most former clubs. The club's highest grade in a particular year is displayed. The source is a compilation of competition tables, point scores and lists of participating teams. These have been taken from the Kiama Independent, Illawarra Mercury and other past newspapers on Trove and microfilm. The current South Coast Group 7 Official Historian has assisted with the provision of more recent tables as printed in association guidebooks and the South Coast Register. Further research may add seasons the juniors only clubs participated which are currently not shown.

ImageSize = width:1000 height:4auto barincrement:20
PlotArea = left:150 bottom:80 top:0 right:15
Alignbars = justify
DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy
Period = from:01/01/1910 till:31/12/2020
TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy
Legend = position:bottom columns:1
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1910
ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:5 start:2020
Colors=
id:First value:black legend:First_Grade
id:Second value:tan2 legend:Reserve_Grade
id:Third value:yelloworange legend:Third_Grade
id:Youth value:yellow legend:Under_18_Only
id:Junior value:dullyellow legend:Juniors_Only
id:Ladies value:magenta legend:Ladies_League_Tag
id:Women value:purple legend:Womens_Rugby_League
id:Illaw value:skyblue legend:Illawarra
id:G16 value:teal legend:Group_16
BarData =
bar:AP text:"Albion Park-Oak Flats"
bar:Ber text:"Berry-Shoalhaven Heads"
bar:Ger text:"Gerringong"
bar:Jam text:"Jamberoo"
bar:Kia text:"Kiama"
bar:MU text:"Milton Ulladulla"
bar:NBJ text:"Nowra-Bomaderry"
bar:Bdy text:"Bomaderry"
bar:Now text:"Nowra"
bar:She text:"Shellharbour Workers/City"
bar:SOS text:"Stingrays of Shellharbour"
bar:War text:"Warilla Lake South"
bar:Crk text:"Crookhaven"
bar:Cul text:"Culburra"
bar:MtW text:"Mt Warrigal"
bar:Rob text:"Robertson"
bar:Sus text:"Sussex Inlet"
bar:WB text:"Wreck Bay"
bar:SGB text:"St Georges Basin"
bar:BAB text:"Bay and Basin"
bar:Alb text:"Albatross / White Ensign"
bar:BB text:"Batemans Bay"
bar:Out text:"Albion Park Outlaws"
bar:SMS text:"St Michaels / Nowra Saints"
bar:GP text:"Greenwell Point"
bar:JB text:"Jervis Bay"
bar:KV text:"Kangaroo Valley"
bar:NC text:"Naval College / Creswell"
bar:Pyr text:"Pyree"
bar:RP text:"Roseby Park"
bar:PK text:"Port Kembla"
PlotData =
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1949 till:31/12/1949 color: black width: 12
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1951 till:31/12/1951 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1955 till:31/12/1959 color: black width: 12
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1960 till:31/12/1962 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1963 till:31/12/1965 color: black width: 12
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1968 till:31/12/1972 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1973 till:31/12/1974 color: black width: 12
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1975 till:31/12/1977 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1978 till:31/12/1978 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1979 till:31/12/1984 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Alb from: 01/01/1985 till:31/12/1993 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1919 till:31/12/1919 color: black width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1923 till:31/12/1925 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1926 till:31/12/1931 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1933 till:31/12/1933 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1934 till:31/12/1937 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1940 till:31/12/1941 color: black width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1944 till:31/12/1949 color: black width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1950 till:31/12/1950 color: yellow width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1951 till:31/12/1953 color: black width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1954 till:31/12/1954 color: yellow width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/1955 till:31/12/2019 color: black width: 12
bar:AP from: 01/01/2012 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:BB from: 01/01/1933 till:31/12/1933 color: teal width: 12
bar:BB from: 01/01/1946 till:31/12/1953 color: teal width: 12
bar:BB from: 01/01/1955 till:31/12/1956 color: teal width: 12
bar:BB from: 01/01/1960 till:31/12/1970 color: teal width: 12
bar:BB from: 01/01/1978 till:31/12/2013 color: black width: 12
bar:BB from: 01/01/2014 till:31/12/2019 color: teal width: 12
bar:Ber from: 01/01/1911 till:31/12/1915 color: black width: 12
bar:Ber from: 01/01/1918 till:31/12/1941 color: black width: 12
bar:Ber from: 01/01/1944 till:31/12/1944 color: black width: 12
bar:Ber from: 01/01/1945 till:31/12/1945 color: yellow width: 12
bar:Ber from: 01/01/1946 till:31/12/1981 color: black width: 12
bar:Ber from: 01/01/1982 till:31/12/1982 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Ber from: 01/01/1983 till:31/12/2001 color: black width: 12
bar:Ber from: 01/01/2003 till:31/12/2019 color: black width: 12
bar:Ber from: 01/01/2011 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1919 till:31/12/1922 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1925 till:31/12/1925 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1926 till:31/12/1927 color: black width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1929 till:31/12/1931 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1934 till:31/12/1935 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1945 till:31/12/1945 color: black width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1946 till:31/12/1946 color: yellow width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1947 till:31/12/1950 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1952 till:31/12/1952 color: yellow width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1953 till:31/12/1954 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1955 till:31/12/1956 color: black width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1957 till:31/12/1957 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1958 till:31/12/1988 color: black width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1989 till:31/12/1989 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/1990 till:31/12/2001 color: black width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/2002 till:31/12/2004 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/2005 till:31/12/2005 color: black width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/2006 till:31/12/2006 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/2007 till:31/12/2007 color: yellow width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/2008 till:31/12/2018 color: dullyellow width: 12
bar:Bdy from: 01/01/2017 till:31/12/2018 color: purple width: 9
bar:Crk from: 01/01/1964 till:31/12/1973 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Crk from: 01/01/1974 till:31/12/1985 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Crk from: 01/01/1988 till:31/12/1994 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Crk from: 01/01/1996 till:31/12/1996 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Crk from: 01/01/1998 till:31/12/1999 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Crk from: 01/01/2002 till:31/12/2003 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Crk from: 01/01/2018 till:31/12/2018 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Cul from: 01/01/2007 till:31/12/2010 color: yellow width: 12
bar:Cul from: 01/01/2011 till:31/12/2011 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Cul from: 01/01/2015 till:31/12/2016 color: magenta width: 6
bar:Cul from: 01/01/2014 till:31/12/2014 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Cul from: 01/01/2016 till:31/12/2019 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/1914 till:31/12/1915 color: black width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/1918 till:31/12/1924 color: black width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/1925 till:31/12/1927 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/1928 till:31/12/1937 color: black width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/1938 till:31/12/1938 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/1939 till:31/12/1939 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/1940 till:31/12/1941 color: black width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/1944 till:31/12/1978 color: black width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/1979 till:31/12/1979 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/1980 till:31/12/2019 color: black width: 12
bar:Ger from: 01/01/2019 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:GP from: 01/01/1933 till:31/12/1934 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:GP from: 01/01/2002 till:31/12/2009 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1914 till:31/12/1915 color: black width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1918 till:31/12/1922 color: black width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1923 till:31/12/1923 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1924 till:31/12/1925 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1926 till:31/12/1927 color: black width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1931 till:31/12/1941 color: black width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1944 till:31/12/1967 color: black width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1968 till:31/12/1970 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1971 till:31/12/1979 color: black width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1980 till:31/12/1982 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1983 till:31/12/1984 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1985 till:31/12/1986 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1987 till:31/12/1988 color: black width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/1989 till:31/12/2005 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/2006 till:31/12/2008 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/2009 till:31/12/2019 color: black width: 12
bar:Jam from: 01/01/2010 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:JB from: 01/01/1949 till:31/12/1951 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:JB from: 01/01/1953 till:31/12/1954 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:JB from: 01/01/1955 till:31/12/1955 color: black width: 12
bar:JB from: 01/01/1959 till:31/12/1969 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:JB from: 01/01/1971 till:31/12/1971 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:JB from: 01/01/1972 till:31/12/1972 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1914 till:31/12/1915 color: black width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1918 till:31/12/1921 color: black width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1922 till:31/12/1922 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1924 till:31/12/1924 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1925 till:31/12/1928 color: black width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1931 till:31/12/1936 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1937 till:31/12/1937 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1946 till:31/12/1949 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1951 till:31/12/1954 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1955 till:31/12/1957 color: black width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1960 till:31/12/1964 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1966 till:31/12/1968 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/1971 till:31/12/1972 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:KV from: 01/01/2007 till:31/12/2008 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Kia from: 01/01/1914 till:31/12/1915 color: black width: 12
bar:Kia from: 01/01/1918 till:31/12/1923 color: black width: 12
bar:Kia from: 01/01/1924 till:31/12/1924 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Kia from: 01/01/1925 till:31/12/1925 color: black width: 12
bar:Kia from: 01/01/1929 till:31/12/1929 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Kia from: 01/01/1930 till:31/12/1941 color: black width: 12
bar:Kia from: 01/01/1944 till:31/12/2019 color: black width: 12
bar:Kia from: 01/01/2010 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:MU from: 01/01/1938 till:31/12/1940 color: black width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1945 till:31/12/1947 color: black width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1948 till:31/12/1948 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1949 till:31/12/1950 color: black width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1951 till:31/12/1951 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1952 till:31/12/1953 color: black width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1954 till:31/12/1954 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1955 till:31/12/1956 color: black width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1957 till:31/12/1957 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1958 till:31/12/1959 color: yellow width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1961 till:31/12/1961 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1962 till:31/12/1991 color: black width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1992 till:31/12/1993 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/1994 till:31/12/2019 color: black width: 12
bar:MU from: 01/01/2013 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:MtW from: 01/01/1980 till:31/12/1981 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:MtW from: 01/01/1995 till:31/12/2001 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:MtW from: 01/01/2005 till:31/12/2009 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:MtW from: 01/01/2017 till:31/12/2019 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:MtW from: 01/01/2019 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:NC from: 01/01/1914 till:31/12/1914 color: black width: 12
bar:NC from: 01/01/1920 till:31/12/1920 color: black width: 12
bar:NC from: 01/01/1922 till:31/12/1925 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:NC from: 01/01/1926 till:31/12/1930 color: black width: 12
bar:NC from: 01/01/1982 till:31/12/1983 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:NC from: 01/01/1985 till:31/12/1985 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:NC from: 01/01/1987 till:31/12/1987 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Now from: 01/01/1914 till:31/12/1915 color: black width: 12
bar:Now from: 01/01/1918 till:31/12/1941 color: black width: 12
bar:Now from: 01/01/1944 till:31/12/2008 color: black width: 12
bar:Now from: 01/01/2009 till:31/12/2018 color: dullyellow width: 12
bar:NBJ from: 01/01/2009 till:31/12/2010 color: black width: 12
bar:NBJ from: 01/01/2011 till:31/12/2011 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:NBJ from: 01/01/2012 till:31/12/2019 color: black width: 12
bar:NBJ from: 01/01/2011 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:Out from: 01/01/1991 till:31/12/1997 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:Out from: 01/01/1998 till:31/12/2007 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Out from: 01/01/2009 till:31/12/2009 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Out from: 01/01/2014 till:31/12/2017 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Out from: 01/01/2016 till:31/12/2017 color: magenta width: 6
bar:PK from: 01/01/2013 till:31/12/2017 color: black width: 12
bar:PK from: 01/01/2018 till:31/12/2018 color: dullyellow width: 12
bar:PK from: 01/01/1919 till:31/12/1940 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:PK from: 01/01/1942 till:31/12/1944 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:PK from: 01/01/1946 till:31/12/1999 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:PK from: 01/01/2003 till:31/12/2007 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:PK from: 01/01/2019 till:31/12/2019 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:Pyr from: 01/01/1920 till:31/12/1930 color: black width: 12
bar:Pyr from: 01/01/1931 till:31/12/1931 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Pyr from: 01/01/1932 till:31/12/1936 color: black width: 12
bar:Pyr from: 01/01/1937 till:31/12/1937 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Pyr from: 01/01/1938 till:31/12/1938 color: black width: 12
bar:Pyr from: 01/01/1939 till:31/12/1939 color: yellow width: 12
bar:Pyr from: 01/01/1940 till:31/12/1940 color: black width: 12
bar:Pyr from: 01/01/1945 till:31/12/1945 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Pyr from: 01/01/1946 till:31/12/1947 color: black width: 12
bar:Pyr from: 01/01/1953 till:31/12/1954 color: black width: 12
bar:Rob from: 01/01/2004 till:31/12/2007 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Rob from: 01/01/2009 till:31/12/2009 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Rob from: 01/01/2018 till:31/12/2019 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:Sus from: 01/01/1992 till:31/12/2005 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Sus from: 01/01/2007 till:31/12/2007 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Sus from: 01/01/2016 till:31/12/2019 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:Sus from: 01/01/2019 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:RP from: 01/01/1946 till:31/12/1951 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:She from: 01/01/1920 till:31/12/1922 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:She from: 01/01/1924 till:31/12/1924 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:She from: 01/01/1931 till:31/12/1936 color: black width: 12
bar:She from: 01/01/1938 till:31/12/1938 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:She from: 01/01/1939 till:31/12/1941 color: black width: 12
bar:She from: 01/01/1944 till:31/12/2008 color: black width: 12
bar:She from: 01/01/2009 till:31/12/2013 color: skyblue width: 12
bar:She from: 01/01/2014 till:31/12/2019 color: black width: 12
bar:She from: 01/01/2014 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:SGB from: 01/01/1978 till:31/12/1981 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:SGB from: 01/01/1982 till:31/12/1982 color: yellow width: 12
bar:SGB from: 01/01/1985 till:31/12/1985 color: yellow width: 12
bar:SGB from: 01/01/1986 till:31/12/1986 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:SGB from: 01/01/1987 till:31/12/1987 color: yellow width: 12
bar:SGB from: 01/01/1988 till:31/12/1989 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:SGB from: 01/01/1990 till:31/12/1990 color: yellow width: 12
bar:SGB from: 01/01/1992 till:31/12/1992 color: yellow width: 12
bar:SGB from: 01/01/2001 till:31/12/2005 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:SGB from: 01/01/2006 till:31/12/2008 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:SGB from: 01/01/2009 till:31/12/2019 color: dullyellow width: 12
bar:SMS from: 01/01/1965 till:31/12/1967 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:SMS from: 01/01/1968 till:31/12/1984 color: black width: 12
bar:SMS from: 01/01/1986 till:31/12/1986 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:SOS from: 01/01/1962 till:31/12/2012 color: dullyellow width: 12
bar:SOS from: 01/01/2013 till:31/12/2013 color: yellow width: 12
bar:SOS from: 01/01/2014 till:31/12/2016 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:SOS from: 01/01/2017 till:31/12/2019 color: black width: 12
bar:SOS from: 01/01/2015 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:War from: 01/01/1966 till:31/12/1968 color: tan2 width: 12
bar:War from: 01/01/1969 till:31/12/2019 color: black width: 12
bar:War from: 01/01/2010 till:31/12/2019 color: magenta width: 6
bar:WB from: 01/01/1977 till:31/12/1982 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:WB from: 01/01/1984 till:31/12/1985 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:WB from: 01/01/1987 till:31/12/1987 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:WB from: 01/01/1992 till:31/12/1996 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:WB from: 01/01/1999 till:31/12/2002 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:WB from: 01/01/2004 till:31/12/2004 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:WB from: 01/01/2018 till:31/12/2019 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:BAB from: 01/01/1996 till:31/12/1999 color: black width: 12
bar:BAB from: 01/01/2000 till:31/12/2000 color: yelloworange width: 12
bar:BAB from: 01/01/2009 till:31/12/2010 color: black width: 12
bar:BAB from: 01/01/2011 till:31/12/2011 color: tan2 width: 12

History

Formative years

Rugby league has been played in the South Coast region of New South Wales since 1913, with the first competition taking place between teams from the Shoalhaven district. In May 1914, with other rugby clubs from across the region also splitting from rugby union to join the new code, the South Coast Rugby League was formed. The first season of what is now known as the Group 7 competition began with eight teams competing. These teams included: Berry, Bombo, Gerringong, Jamberoo, Kiama, Kangaroo Valley, Naval College, and Nowra. The First round began on 30 May 1914, with Kiama defeating Gerringong 6–3, Naval College defeating Bombo 7–5, Jamberoo Superoos defeating Kangaroo Valley 3–0, and Nowra Warriors defeating Berry Magpies 3–0. The inaugural premiers were Gerringong, winning the final 11–10 at the Kiama Showground. As soon as the league began, they entered a two-year hiatus due to World War I. No competitions were held between 1916 and 1917. When the competition reformed in 1918, Gerringong again won the title. The Nowra Warriors were the next team to win the title in 1919.

1920s

Gerringong went on to win the title a third time in 1920, with a 3–0 win over Jamberoo. During 1925–26, some of the northern teams moved into Illawarra Rugby League competition, including Gerringong, who took out the Illawarra Premiership in 1925. Jamberoo won the premiership in 1927. As a result, they were the first team to represent the South Coast in the first championship between South Coast and Illawarra Premiers. Jamberoo defeated Port Kembla 15–11. In 1929, Bombo won their first premiership.

1930s

After winning their first premiership in 1929, Bombo merged with Kiama in 1930. The new entity, Bombo-Kiama, took out the title in their first season. They followed this up with another in 1933. Albion Park became re-affiliated with South Coast Rugby League in 1933. Milton-Ulladulla joined the league in the 1930s from Group 16 Rugby League. Between 1935 and 1937, the Berry Magpies won the premiership three years consecutively. Junior aged competitions were first introduced in 1938. The Shellharbour Sharks won their first premiership in 1939.

1940s

Again, the competition faced a hiatus, this time between 1942 and 1943, due to World War II. Albion Park won their maiden Premiership in 1944. Kiama won the title in 1945. They went on to win a further three titles, becoming the first and only club to win four consecutive titles.

1950s–1960s

For a second time, between 1952 and 1954, Berry record premiership wins three years consecutively. In 1955, the league was renamed Group 7 Rugby League. Shellharbour won the Premiership in 1962 after a 23-year drought. In 1967, Bomaderry record their first premiership win.

1970s–1980s

In the 1970s, an expansion occurred when Warilla entered the first grade competition in 1970. They go on to win their first premiership in 1978. The Batemans Bay Tigers win their first premiership in 1979, after joining one year earlier in 1978 from Group 16. In 1980, the league was re-branded as South Coast Group Seven. Milton-Ulladulla record their first premiership win in 1987.

Modern times

A hat-trick of premierships is again recorded, this time by the Albion Park-Oak Flats Eagles between 1998 and 2000.
Source: Group 7 Rugby League History

Premierships

First grade premiers

Tip: To view original newspaper articles on matches up to 1954, hover over the blue number in the Reports column and then click on the article name. That will open the article in Trove.

Total premierships won

Popular movies

The Hunger Games (film) - 2012 American dystopian action thriller science fiction-adventure film directed by Gary Ross and based on Suzanne Collins’s 2008 novel of the same name. It is the first insta...
untitled Captain Marvel sequel - part of Marvel Cinematic Universe....
Killers of the Flower Moon (film project) - Killers of the Flower Moon - film project in United States of America. It was presented as drama, detective fiction, thriller. The film project starred Leonardo Dicaprio, Robert De Niro. Director of...
Five Nights at Freddy's (film) - Five Nights at Freddy's - film published in 2017 in United States of America. Scenarist of the film - Scott Cawthon....

Popular books

Book of Revelation - The Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament, and consequently is also the final book of the Christian Bible. Its title is derived from the first word of the Koine Greek text: apok...
Book of Genesis - account of the creation of the world, the early history of humanity, Israel's ancestors and the origins...
Gospel of Matthew - The Gospel According to Matthew is the first book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic gospels. It tells how Israel's Messiah, rejected and executed in Israel, pronounces judgement on ...
Michelin Guide - Michelin Guides are a series of guide books published by the French tyre company Michelin for more than a century. The term normally refers to the annually published Michelin Red Guide , the oldest...
Psalms - The Book of Psalms , commonly referred to simply as Psalms , the Psalter or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim , the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and thus a book of th...
Ecclesiastes - Ecclesiastes is one of 24 books of the Tanakh , where it is classified as one of the Ketuvim . Originally written c. 450–200 BCE, it is also among the canonical Wisdom literature of the Old Tes...
The 48 Laws of Power - non-fiction book by American author Robert Greene. The book...

Popular television series

The Crown (TV series) - historical drama web television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan, and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Tel...
Friends - American sitcom television series, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. With an ensemble cast sta...
Young Sheldon - spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory and begins with the character Sheldon...
Modern Family - American television mockumentary family sitcom created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for the American Broadcasting Company. It ran for eleven seasons, from September 23...
Loki (TV series) - upcoming American web television miniseries created for Disney+ by Michael Waldron, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, shar...
Game of Thrones - American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It...
Shameless (American TV series) - American comedy-drama television series developed by John Wells which debuted on Showtime on January 9, 2011. It...