Sport | Rugby league |
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Instituted | 1913 |
Inaugural season | 1913 |
Ceased | 2021 |
Re-formed | 2022 |
Country | Australia |
Most recent premier | Blackheath Blackcats (2023) |
Most titles | Carcoar Crows (13 titles) |
Website | Group 10 Homepage |
The Mid West Community Cup is a rugby league competition in the Central West area of New South Wales. The premiers are awarded the Blayney Citizens' Cup, the oldest continuously awarded trophy in Country Rugby League, with Neville the first recipients in 1913.[1] For all intents and purposes, it is a third division competition in the Group 10/11 area.
In its last season under its original model in 2021, the competition encompassed teams from Bathurst, Kandos, Lithgow, Oberon, Orange and Portland.[2] Some of the remaining clubs in the competition merged into the Woodbridge Cup in 2022 after two incomplete seasons due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. However, the competition reformed in late 2022 under a new community cup model similar to Group 17. The three clubs that emerged from the ailing original format of the competition to join the Woodbridge Cup did not rejoin the competition as they sought a higher standard of football, paving the way for the return of other older clubs.