The Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Newcastle, New South Wales. They compete in Australasia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. Playing in red and blue, the Knights joined the top tier competition in 1988, 79 years after the previous Newcastle based team, the Newcastle Rebels had departed the Sydney competition with the formation of a separate league competition based in the Newcastle region.

melbourne storm

The Melbourne Storm is a professional rugby league football club based in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The Melbourne club is currently 100% owned and operated by News Limited.
The club's first season was in 1998, as part of the newly formed National RugbyLeague competition. The club is the inaugural first-grade club based in Victoria. They play their home games at Olympic Park.

penrith panthers

The Penrith Panthers is an Australian professional rugby league football team. The Panthers compete in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership, the top rugby league football competition in Australasia.
Based in Penrith, New South Wales, 55 km west of the centre of Sydney and at the foot of the Blue Mountains, the Panthers were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition in 1967, predecessor of the Australian Rugby League (ARL) and the current NRL competition.

Penrith struggled for almost twenty years before finally reaching their first finals series in 1985. Penrith achieved their first Grand Final appearance in 1990 but were beaten by the Canberra Raiders 18–14. The next year the Panthers met the Raiders again in the 1991 Grand Final, this time winning the game 19–12. The Panthers most recent premiership achievement was over the Sydney Roosters in the 2003 Grand Final where Penrith were considered 'under dogs' but came out on top with a 18-6 victory.