1983 KB Cup

The 1983 KB Cup was the 10th edition of the NSWRFL Midweek Cup, a NSWRFL-organised national club Rugby League tournament between the leading clubs and representative teams from the NSWRFL, the BRL, the CRL, the QRL and the NZRL.

A total of 18 teams from across Australia and New Zealand played 17 matches in a straight knock-out format, with the matches being held midweek during the premiership season.

Qualified Teams

Venues

Sydney	Brisbane	Newcastle
Leichhardt Oval	Lang Park	Newcastle International Sports Centre
Capacity: 23,000	Capacity: 45,000	Capacity: 33,000

Preliminary round

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
13/04/83	Manly-Warringah (Ribot try, P.Blake field goal)	5	Parramatta	0	Leichhardt Oval
20/04/83	Canberra (O'Callaghan 2, Keir, Spears tries, Giteau 3 goals)	22	Balmain (Lane 2, Lawson tries, Filipaina 4 goals)	20	Leichhardt Oval	Chris O'Sullivan - Canberra

Round 1

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
27/04/83	Canterbury-Bankstown (Leis, Conlon tries, Conlon 3 goals)	14	Penrith (Martin, Izzard tries, Marshall goal)	10	Newcastle ISC	Garry Hughes - Canterbury-Bankstown
11/05/83	Newtown (Doyle 5, Sigsworth, Wilson, Ellis, Bird tries, Wilson 7 goals)	50	Central Districts (NZ)	0	Leichhardt Oval	Chris Doyle - Newtown
18/05/83	Combined Brisbane	38	North Sydney	18	Lang Park	Wally Lewis - Combined Brisbane
18/05/83	Manly-Warringah	78	QLD Country	4	Lang Park	Ian Schubert - Manly-Warringah
25/05/83	NSW Country	20	South Sydney	12	Leichhardt Oval	Ross Gibson - NSW Country
1/06/83	Cronulla-Sutherland (Beckett 2, Gardner, Withall tries, D.Sorensen 4 goals)	24	St George (Rogers try, Gearin 2 goals)	8	Leichhardt Oval	Rowland Beckett - Cronulla-Sutherland
8/06/83	Eastern Suburbs (Michael, Grounds 2, Walford, Eden tries, Eden 4 goals)	32	Canberra (Wurth 2, Spears tries, Giteau 2 goals)	16	Leichhardt Oval	Mike Eden - Eastern Suburbs
15/06/83	Western Suburbs (Harris, Greene tries, Greene goal)	10	Illawarra (McKellar try)	4	Leichhardt Oval	David Greene - Western Suburbs

Quarter finals

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
22/06/83	Eastern Suburbs (Eden 3, Walford 2 tries, Eden 5 goals)	30	Newtown (Speechley try, Wilson 4 goals)	12	Leichhardt Oval	Kevin Hastings - Eastern Suburbs
29/06/83	Cronulla-Sutherland (Nixon 2, Mullane, O'Connor, D.Sorensen, Lane tries, Hardy 5 goals)	34	Western Suburbs (S.Gale, T.Lamb tries, Greene 2 goals)	12	Leichhardt Oval	Scott Gale - Western Suburbs
13/07/83	Manly-Warringah (Sigsworth, Walker tries, Sigsworth goal)	10	Canterbury-Bankstown (Conlon 2 goals, C.Mortimer field goal)	5	Leichhardt Oval	Alan Thompson - Manly-Warringah
20/07/83	Combined Brisbane (Brennan 3, Lindenberg 2, Meninga, Paterson, Miles, Tessman tries, Meninga 6, Lewis 3 goals)	54	NSW Country (McCartney, Kearney tries, Elwin 3 goals)	14	Leichhardt Oval	Gene Miles - Combined Brisbane

Semi finals

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
27/07/83	Manly-Warringah (P.Blake 2, Close, Windshuttle tries, Eadie 3 goals, P.Blake field goal)	23	Combined Brisbane (Brennan, Jones tries, Meninga 3 goals)	14	Lang Park	Graham Eadie - Manly-Warringah
3/08/83	Cronulla-Sutherland (Gardner 2, Anderson tries)	12	Eastern Suburbs (Neil try, Eden 3 goals)	10	Leichhardt Oval	Greg Nixon - Cronulla-Sutherland

Final

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
10/8/83	Manly-Warringah (Eadie 2, Ryan, Close, Cleal tries, Eadie 3 goals)	26	Cronulla-Sutherland (Ettingshausen try, Hardy goal)	6	Leichhardt Oval	Paul Vautin - Manly-Warringah

Player of the Series

• Ian Schubert (Manly-Warringah)

Golden Try

• Royce Ayliffe (Eastern Suburbs)

Sources

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092845/http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/aus/nsw/sum/nsw1983.htm