Clayton Cup

Clayton Cup

The Clayton Cup has been awarded to the best team each year in the Country Rugby League since 1937. Reub Clayton had grown up with Chris McKivat in Orange and was a famous figure in that western town as a player and administrator before Rugby League was established. He lent his support to the new code and went on to be a Vice President of the NSWRL and a member of the Country Committee, which oversaw the running of football in the bush prior to the establishment of the CRL in 1934. Clayton, who was also a successful businessman (he was a bookmaker), donated the trophy to help foster the game in rural NSW and should never be forgotten for the part he played in establishing rugby league outside Sydney. Reub Clayton died in 1947

Tweed Heads Seagulls have won the cup three times (1963, 1983, 1989), and Forster-Tuncurry (1994, 1995, 2000) and three clubs have won it twice: Young (1953, 1955), Cobar (1971, 1972), Tumbarumba (1985, 1986).
Year Club Group
1937 West Tamworth Group 4
1938 Nimmitabel Group 16
1939 Wagga Magpies Group 9
1940 Henty Group 9
1946 Port Kembla Illawarra
1947 Bombala Group 9
1948 Cootamundra Group 9
1949 Tumut Group 9
1950 Bathurst Railway Group 10
1951 North Tamworth Group 4
1952 Gundagai Group 9
1953 Young Group 9
1954 Orange CYMS Group 10
1955 Young Group 9
1956 Maitland United Newcastle
1957 Temora Group 9
1958 Coonamble Group 14
1959 Dubbo Macquarie Group 8
1960 Goulburn Workers Group 8
1961 Ballina Group 1
1962 Warialda Group 19
1963 Tweed Heads Seagulls Group 18
1964 Oberon Group 10
1965 Tullibigeal Group 17
1966 Picton Magpies Group 6
1967 Casino Group 1
1968 Darlington Point Group 20
1969 Tarcutta Group 13
1970 Delegate Group19
1971 Cobar Group 15
1972 Cobar Group 15
1973 Gunnedah Group 4
1974 Queanbeyan United Group 8
1975 Albury Blues Group 13
1976 Bombala Group 16
1977 Belconnen United Group 19
1978 Sawtell Group 2
1979 Scone Group 21
1980 Narwan Group 19
1981 Bellingen Group 2
1982 Warilla Group 7
1983 Tweed Heads Seagulls Group 18
1984 Bourke Group 15
1985 Tumbarumba Group 13
1986 Tumbarumba Group 13
1987 Lismore Marist Brothers Group 1
1988 Bega Group 16
1989 Tweed Heads Seagulls Group 18
1990 Singleton Group 21
1991 Mittagong Group 6
1992 Western Suburbs Newcastle
1993 Rankin Springs Group 17
1994 Forster- Tuncurry Group 3
1995 Forster- Tuncurry Group 3
1996 Werris Creek Group 4
1997 Eden Group 16
1998 Cobar Group 11
1999 Barellan Group 17
2000 Forster- Tuncurry Group 3
2001 Port Macquarie Group 2
2002 Barellan Group 17
2003 Narooma Group 16
2004 Temora Group 9
2005 Umina Beach Central Coast
2006 Hillston Bluebirds Group 17
2007 Albion Park- Oak Flats Group 7
2008 The Entrance Central Coast
2009 Yenda Group 20
2010 Grafton Ghosts Northern Rivers