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Ballymore Cup Overview

Mountain Creek SHS celebrate their 2008 Ballymore Cup win

The state's largest school Rugby competition, the Ballymore Cup provides an opportunity for "non-traditional" rugby playing schools who win their respective regional championships to test themselves against other regional champions from across the state.

In 2008 Mountain Creek State High School from the Sunshine Coast won its first Ballymore Cup by beating Rockhampton Grammar 11-0, in the Division 1 Final.

For your school to qualify for the Ballymore Cup, your school will need to:

  1. Play in your Open District Schools Competition.
  2. Depending on the timing of your district competition, your school will be invited to participate in the Ballymore Cup Inter-Regional games if:
    1. Your school wins the district competition (for any district competition played prior to the mid-year cutoff date)
    2. Your school district nominates the appropriate school to represent the district (for any  district competition played after the midyear cutoff date).
    3. NB - certain school district representatives will progress straight to the Quarter Finals.
  3. Those schools who win their Inter-Regional Game will progress to the Quarter Finals of Division 1.
  4. Those schools who are defeated in their Inter-Regional Game will progress to the Quarter Finals of Division 2.
  5. Once teams are defeated in the Quarter Finals, they are knocked out of the Ballymore Cup in both divisions.
  6. The final two undefeated teams in Division 1 and 2 respectively will play in the finals.
  7. The two teams defeated in the Semi Finals of Division 1 will play off for 3rd and 4th.
  8. All players must be turning 16 or 17 in the year of competitition to be eligible for the Ballymore Cup qualifying process as the competition is an Under 17 competition bound by the ARU Two Year Window Policy.  No exceptions will be made.
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