Mid West Cup

Three clubs are currently listed as part of the Mid West Community Cup competition. The inaugural edition of the competition ran as a four-team single round robin with finals to follow, with a total four week season in 2022, and will continue in this format for 2023.

Club	City/Town	Home Ground	No. of Titles	Premierships	Notes
Blackheath Blackcats	Blackheath	Jubilee Park	10	1980, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2002, 2005, 2015, 2018
Carcoar Crows	Carcoar	Carcoar Oval	13	1931, 1949, 1950, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1994, 2022
Kandos Waratahs	Kandos	Waratah Park	7	1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1981, 2009, 2013
Portland Colts	Portland	Kremer Park	3	1984, 1998, 2008

The Mid West Cup was originally organised as a rugby union competition but made the switch to rugby league after the First World War. The first winner of the competition was Neville and the club awarded the Blayney Citizens' Cup, the oldest trophy still in regular use in Country Rugby League.[4]

While the competition was traditionally based in around the Blayney region, in the 1950s it expanded into Rockley, Carcoar and Cullen Bullen before it was absorbed in the Group 10 Rugby League and renamed the Group 10 Second Division in 1970. It adopted its current name of the Mid West Cup in 1990. The competition only featured four teams in 2019, including CSU Mungoes, Lithgow Bears, Orange Barbarians and Portland Colts, but will expand to eight in 2020 with the inclusion of the reformed Blackheath Blackcats and Kandos Waratahs, Oberon Tigers (who have been relegated from Group 10) and the newly-formed Orange United.

The competition's last season under its original model was in 2021, and encompassed teams from Bathurst, Kandos, Lithgow, Oberon, Orange and Portland. The three remaining clubs in the competition (CSU, Oberon and Orange United) 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 such as Carcoar, as well as the introduction of Burrangong for the first time. Burrangong returned to the George Tooke Shield for 2023, with Blackheath rejoining the competition in their place.

• Rugby League Competitions in Australia

• Group 10 ladder - from Sporting Pulse
• Group 10 on Country Rugby League's official site

• Lithgow Storm Junior Rugby League