This is a list of the winners of First Grade Rugby League Premiership competitions held on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

The current competition is conducted under the auspices of the Central Coast Division Rugby League, an affiliate of NSW Country Rugby League and the New South Wales Rugby League.

First Grade Premiers

Background Football matches under Rugby Union rules were played by clubs from Gosford, Ourimbah and Wyong in the years 1905, 1906 and 1907. From 1908 to 1911, Wyong entered a team in the Newcastle Rugby Union competitions.

During 1911 Gosford Football Club played both Union and League matches. Rugby League teams from the NSWRFL lower grade competitions visited and played against Gosford: Balmain on 15 July and South Sydney Federal on 2 September.

Wyong joined the Newcastle Rugby League competition in 1912, competing in Second Grade that season and in 1913 and 1914.

1915 to 1936 The first Rugby League association on the Central Coast was inaugurated in May 1915. Competition matches were played in June. Ourimbah defeated Erina in a Final on 29 August. The other teams competing were Matcham, Wyong and Yarramalong.

No competition took place in 1916 or 1917 and in 1918 only a few matches were played.

Competition Rugby League was revived in 1919. The season format was to conduct a premiership competition, in which all teams played the same number of matches, followed by a knock-out. From 1920 until 1932, the Knock-Out involved all teams. +Premiership and Knock-Out Competition Winners in First and Second Grade Season Numbers First Grade Second Grade Assoc Year G C T 1GT Premiers Decider Points Score Knock Out Premiers Knock Out W&DRL 1915 1 5 5 5 Ourimbah Top Two Final Leading Teams — — W&DRL 1919 1 6 6 6 Jilliby Play-Off Final Full Table Jilliby — — W&DRL 1920 1 7 7 7 Ourimbah Top Two Final Points Score Erina — — W&DRL 1921 2 8 12 6 Ourimbah No (Knock Out) Full Table Ourimbah Gosford Gosford W&DRL 1922 2 5 10 5 Ourimbah No (Knock Out) Full Table Ourimbah Gosford Gosford W&DRL 1923 2 5 9 4 Erina No (Knock Out) Full Table Wyong Erina Erina W&DRL 1924 2 5 7 4 Erina No (Knock Out) Erina Erina Erina GDRFL 1925 2 4 7 3 Gosford No (Knock Out) Winner Named Gosford Ourimbah Ourimbah GDFA 1926 2 6 8 4 Gosford No (Knock Out) Points Score Wyong Gosford Wyong WDRFL 1927 2 4 7 3 Gosford Winner Named Wyong Wyong Wyong WDRFL 1928 1 5 8 7 Wyong South Play-Off Final Full Table Ourimbah East — — WDRFL 1929 Wyong Winner Named Wyong Ourimbah Ourimbah ESDRFL 1930 2 6 11 6 Wyong No (Knock Out) Full Table Wyong Wyong Gosford ESRFL 1931 2 8 14 7 Wyong No (Knock Out) Full Table Dora Creek Erina Erina ESRFL 1932 2 11 18 9 Wyong No (Knock Out) Winner Named Ourimbah Gosford Wyong ESRFL 1933 2 8 15 7 Morisset No (Knock Out) Points Score Morisset Ourimbah Ourimbah ESRFL 1934 2 8 16 8 Morisset (1st) Wyong (Club) No (Knock Out) Winner Named Woy Woy Ourimbah Wyong ESRFL 1935 2 4 8 4 Morisset No (Knock Out) Winner Named Morisset Ourimbah Ourimbah ESRFL 1936 2 4 8 4 Wyong No (Knock Out) Points Score Wyong Wyong Ourimbah Gaps in the table in 1927 and 1929 are due to the limited availability of issues of the Gosford Times in those years. A list of previous winners was, however, published in the Wyong Advocate in 1932.

In 1928 the Association decided to hold only a Second Grade competition. Ourimbah and Wyong fielded two teams. Gosford entered their First Grade team in the North Sydney Juniors competition and their Second Grade competed in the local competition. In 1931, however, a newspaper article stated that Wyong had won the last four first grade competitions. This suggests that the local competition of 1928 was elevated to First Grade status.

In 1933 Kincumber won a Knock-Out Final but premiers Morisset were able to challenge them in a Grand Final.

In 1934 a Club Competition was conducted and given prominence. Points from both grades counted, though first grade points were worth double (i.e. four points for a win). Wyong and Morisset initially finished level on 59 Club Championship points. A play-off final was held, which Morisset won. However, on appeal to the parent body, Newcastle Rugby League, a protest that the local association had dismissed was overturned. Wyong were awarded an additional four points for a first grade game they had lost, in which Ourimbah fielded an unregistered player.

Earlier in 1934 Woy Woy defeated a depleted Ourimbah team by 102 to nil in a First Grade match.

1937 to 1939 In 1932 Gosford Football Club began playing challenge matches, separate from the competition matches played on Saturdays. The format was to invite teams from outside the district to play matches at Gosford Showground. The team that defeated Gosford by the biggest margin was invited back at the end of the season to play a grand final for a trophy cup.

Woy Woy left the local competition and adopted this format in 1935, arranging their own challenge matches and grand final each year until 1939. In 1937 they ran the challenge in two grades, with the B grade team named Ettalong. In 1939, both grade teams in the Woy Woy challenge cup were named Ettalong.

Competition in a league format did not take place between 1937 and 1939. A meeting of the Erina Shire Rugby Football League in May 1937 decided to suspend the competition, attributing to a decline of interest in Saturday football to a rise in SP betting. The lodgement of protests had become common in the mid 1930s and this may have also contributed.

Gosford's 1939 Challenge Cup Grand Final was postponed due to the outbreak of war.

1940 to 1946 Challenge Cup matches were played in 1940 mostly by Gosford and Ourimbah. Wyong club was revived and played a few games. Ettalong played at least one match, visiting Ourimbah on 19 May.

Just seven issues of the Gosford Times are available for the seven years, 1941 to 1948, so information on Central Coast football during this time is limited. Ourimbah and Woy Woy hosted challenge matches in 1941. Rugby League in the years 1942 to 1944 may have been restricted to school football – Gosford High School hosted Randwick in July 1943.

Wyong competed in the Newcastle Third Grade competition in 1945, along with ten other teams. They made the semi-finals, playing at Newcastle Sports Ground on 25 August, but were beaten, 14 to 8, by Newcastle's Northern Suburbs club.

The following year, 1946, Wyong fielded two grade sides in a Southern Newcastle competition. Two rounds of matches were played against the four other competitors. Wyong's A grade team finished third, between finalists Belmont and Morisset, and Cardiff and Lake Macquarie. In B grade, Wyong upset minor premiers Belmont in the final, prompting a Grand Final the following week.

On 1 September 1946 Ourimbah won Gosford's Challenge Cup, by 6 to 3, but lost their own Cup grand finals the following Sunday, being beaten 19 to 8 by BHP Newcastle in A grade, and 18 to nil by Central Newcastle's Under 18 team in B grade.

1947 to 2009 In February 1947 an annual meeting of the Brisbane Water Rugby League Football Association elected office bearers. By early April, a draw was published, now under the name Central Coast Rugby League Football Association. The five clubs in the 1947 competition were Morisset, Ourimbah, The Entrance, Woy Woy and Wyong. Gosford continued to run their challenge cup in 1947 but joined the local league in 1948. Erina club was formed to enter the 1949 competition. Morisset, however, did not participate in 1949.

The format involved the completion of a league of regular season matches to determine the minor premier. The top four teams were then to play in a final series to determine the major premier. Initially, if the minor premier was beaten in either their semi-final or the final, they had a right to challenge the winner of the final in a Grand Final.

From 1950 to 1966, the Grades were more commonly referred to as A, B, C and D. Season Numbers A Grade or First Grade Assoc Year G C T 1GT Premiers Decider Points Score Minor Premiers CCRLFA 1947 3 5 15 5 Wyong Final Winner Named Wyong CCRLFA 1948 3 6 18 6 Ourimbah Grand Final Minor Premier Ourimbah CCRLFA 1949 3 6 18 6 The Entrance Replayed GF Full Table Ourimbah CCRLFA 1950 3 6 18 6 Gosford Grand Final Points Score Ourimbah CCRLFA 1951 3 6 18 6 Ourimbah Replayed Final Full Table Ourimbah CCRLFA 1952 3 6 18 6 Ourimbah Final Points Score Ourimbah CCRLFA 1953 3 6 18 6 Ourimbah Grand Final Full Table Ourimbah CCRLFA 1954 3 7 21 7 Ourimbah Final Points Score Ourimbah CCRLFA 1955 4 8 27 8 Ourimbah Final Points Score Ourimbah CCRLFA 1956 4 7 27 7 The Entrance Grand Final Full Table The Entrance CCRLFA 1957 4 7 26 7 The Entrance Grand Final Full Table The Entrance CCRLFA 1958 4 7 27 7 Gosford Grand Final Gosford CCRLFA 1959 4 6 22 6 Gosford Grand Final Minor Premier Gosford CCRLFA 1960 4 6 23 6 Ourimbah Grand Final The Entrance CCRLFA 1961 4 6 24 6 The Entrance Grand Final Full Table Ourimbah CCRLFA 1962 4 6 24 6 Woy Woy Grand Final Full Table Ourimbah CCRLFA 1963 4 6 23 6 Gosford Grand Final Full Table Ourimbah CCRLFA 1964 4 7 28 7 Woy Woy Grand Final Full Table Gosford CCRLFA 1965 4 7 26 7 Gosford Grand Final Full Table Wyong CCRLFA 1966 4 7 26 7 Woy Woy Grand Final Full Table Woy Woy Group 12 1967 4 7 27 7 Woy Woy Grand Final Woy Woy Group 12 1968 5 7 33 7 Wyong Grand Final Full Table Wyong Group 12 1969 5 8 35 7 Wyong Grand Final Minor Premier Wyong Group 12 1970 5 8 35 7 Woy Woy Grand Final Minor Premier Woy Woy Group 12 1971 5 9 35 7 Wyong Grand Final Woy Woy Group 12 1972 5 9 35 7 Woy Woy Grand Final Minor Premier Gosford Group 12 1973 5 8 35 7 Gosford Grand Final Points Score Ourimbah Group 12 1974 5 9 36 7 Wyong Grand Final Points Score Umina Group 12 1975 5 8 34 7 Woy Woy Grand Final Minor Premier Wyong Group 12 1976 6 8 Woy Woy Grand Final Woy Woy Group 12 1977 6 14 43 8 Erina Grand Final Minor Premier Woy Woy Group 12 1978 6 16 49 8 Gosford Grand Final Full Table Woy Woy Group 12 1979 6 14 50 9 Woy Woy Grand Final Minor Premier Woy Woy Group 12 1980 6 14 51 9 Woy Woy Grand Final Full Table Umina CCDRL 1981 5 15 46 10 Erina Grand Final Full Table Erina CCDRL 1982 5 16 46 10 Wyong Grand Final Full Table Woy Woy CCDRL 1983 5 16 42 9 Umina Replayed GF Full Table Umina CCDRL 1984 5 15 41 9 Woy Woy Grand Final Umina CCDRL 1985 5 16 43 9 Woy Woy Grand Final Woy Woy CCDRL 1986 5 15 43 9 Terrigal Grand Final Woy Woy CCDRL 1987 5 15 43 9 Woy Woy Grand Final Full Table Woy Woy CCDRL 1988 5 16 44 9 Erina Grand Final Wyong CCDRL 1989 5 17 45 9 The Entrance Grand Final Full Table The Entrance CCDRL 1990 5 17 47 9 Wyong Grand Final Full Table Erina CCDRL 1991 5 17 47 9 Erina Grand Final Full Table Erina CCDRL 1992 5 17 47 10 Wyong Grand Final Wyong CCDRL 1993 5 17 47 10 The Entrance Grand Final Wyong CCDRL 1994 5 17 46 10 Umina Grand Final Umina CCDRL 1995 5 17 46 10 The Entrance Grand Final Wyong CCDRL 1996 5 17 46 9 Wyong Grand Final Full Table Wyong CCDRL 1997 5 17 44 9 Wyong Grand Final Minor Premier The Entrance CCDRL 1998 5 15 39 8 Woy Woy Grand Final Woy Woy CCDRL 1999 5 16 42 9 Woy Woy Grand Final Full Table Woy Woy CCDRL 2000 5 The Entrance Grand Final Minor Premier Wyong CCDRL 2001 5 17 41 8 Woy Woy Grand Final Full Table Woy Woy CCDRL 2002 5 16 37 7 Wyong Grand Final Full Table The Entrance CCDRL 2003 4 16 35 8 The Entrance Grand Final The Entrance CCDRL 2004 4 17 39 10 The Entrance Grand Final Full Table The Entrance CCDRL 2005 4 17 38 10 Umina Grand Final Umina CCDRL 2006 4 14 45 12 Woy Woy Grand Final Full Table Woy Woy CCDRL 2007 5 11 40 10 Woy Woy Grand Final Full Table Umina CCDRL 2008 4 11 42 10 The Entrance Grand Final The Entrance CCDRL 2009 4 10 40 10 The Entrance Grand Final Full Table The Entrance C and D grades were intended for the development of younger players. This was formalised in 1967 when they became and Under 17 competitions. The first in a number of changes to the age limits occurred in the following season, 1968.