FOGS Colts Challenge
Current season or competition:
2017 FOGS Colts Challenge season
SportRugby league
Instituted1986
Inaugural season1986
Ceased2017
Replaced byHastings Deering Colts
ChairmanBruce Hatcher
Number of teams15
Country Australia (15 teams)
PremiersRedcliffe Dolphins (2017)
Most titlesNorths Devils
Websiteqrl.com.au
Related competitionJersey Flegg Cup
Mal Meninga Cup

The FOGS Colts Challenge is an 11-team rugby league competition run by the QRL. It is the highest level of junior rugby league in Brisbane before players move into senior rugby. FOGS in an acronym for Former Origin Greats.

The competition provides the highest standard for young players ranging 16-18 who wish to further their rugby league careers and is seen as the first step for young Queensland boys in reaching the National Rugby League. Although the competition is based in Brisbane, scouts from all the NRL clubs have a presence in Colts rugby. Players are chosen from the FOGS Cup for U17, U18, state, and national representative sides, and it is also the stepping stone to play in the Queensland Cup. It is not unusual for young stars in the FOGS Cup to have already signed contracts with an NRL side.

History

The FOGS Colts Challenge, which ran from 1986 to 2017, only featured sides from south east Queensland. From 2008 to 2017, the National Rugby League (NRL) administered their own under-20 competition, the National Youth Competition, which featured the three Queensland-based NRL clubs, the Brisbane Broncos, Gold Coast Titans and North Queensland Cowboys, and a plethora of young players from the state. In 2016, the NRL announced that the National Youth Competition would be discontinued after the 2017 season, in favour of state-based under-20 competitions, administered by the Queensland Rugby League (QRL) and New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL).[1]

In 2017, in preparation for the new competition, the QRL ran a shortened, statewide under-20 competition called the FOGS U20s Cup. The competition, which was won by the Redcliffe Dolphins, ran over nine-weeks, alongside the Mal Meninga Cup, and featured all 15 teams who would eventually participate in the Hastings Deering Colts.[2][3]

Current Teams

2009 Ladder

Team Pld W D L B PF PA PD Pts
1 Souths Logan Magpies 20 16 1 3 2 548 350 +198 37
2 Easts Tigers 20 14 1 5 2 734 372 +362 33
3 Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles 20 13 3 4 2 489 398 +91 33
4 Tweed Heads Seagulls 20 11 1 8 2 487 425 +50 27
5 Western Districts Panthers 20 9 2 9 2 464 462 +2 24
6 Norths Devils 20 9 0 11 2 447 495 -48 22
7 Burleigh Bears 20 8 1 11 2 379 488 -109 21
8 Wynnum Manly Seagulls 20 6 0 14 2 422 596 -174 16
9 Ipswich Jets 20 5 0 15 2 349 522 -173 14
10 Redcliffe Dolphins 20 4 1 15 2 390 599 -209 13

Grand Final Results

Year Winner Score Loser
1998 Norths Devils 44 - 20 Past Brothers
1999 Redcliffe Dolphins 26 - 22 Norths Devils
2000 Norths Devils 32 - 14 Wests Panthers
2001 Redcliffe Dolphins 24 - 22 Norths Devils
2002 Wests Panthers 30 - 20 Redcliffe Dolphins
2003 Redcliffe Dolphins 24 - 20 Norths Devils
2004 Norths Devils 48 - 6 Easts Tigers
2005 Norths Devils 28 - 18 Wests Panthers
2006 Norths Devils 28 - 22 Wynnum-Manly Seagulls
2007 Tweed Heads Seagulls 18 - 14 Norths Devils
2008 Western Districts Panthers 30 - 16 Aspley Devils
2009 Easts Tigers 30 - 28 Souths Logan Magpies
2010 Easts Tigers 20 - 18 Wynnum-Manly Seagulls
2015 Burleigh Bears 22 - 12 Wynnum-Manly Seagulls
2016 Easts Tigers 21 - 20 Redcliffe Dolphins
2017 Redcliffe Dolphins 56 - 18 Norths Devils

See also

References

  1. ^ "NRL replaces Holden Cup under 20s with new NSW, Qld competitions in 2018 - Fox Sports". www.foxsports.com.au. 17 November 2016.
  2. ^ "QRL gets jump on new under-20s comp". 3 March 2017.
  3. ^ "FOGS U20s Cup state final teams". 2 May 2017.

External links

Rugby league in Queensland
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