1997 Super League (Australia) season

The 1997 Super League season (also known as the Telstra Cup due to sponsorship by Telstra) was a breakaway professional rugby league football competition in Australia and the only one to be run by the News Limited-controlled Super League organisation. Eight teams which had broken away from the existing Australian Rugby League, in addition to the newly created Adelaide Rams and Hunter Mariners, competed over eighteen weekly rounds of the regular season.

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