2024 Queensland Cup

The 2024 Queensland Cup season is the 29th season of Queensland's top-level statewide rugby league competition run by the Queensland Rugby League. The competition, known as the Hostplus Cup due to sponsorship, features 15 teams playing a 26-week long season (including finals) from March to September. The Brisbane Tigers are the defending premiers, having won the competition for the first time in their history in 2023.

Teams

In 2024, the line-up of teams was unchanged from the 2023 season. There were a number of affiliation changes during 2023. The Burleigh Bears switched to the Broncos,^[1] while the Ipswich Jets joined the Titans.^[2]

The Townsville Blackhawks (South Sydney Rabbitohs) and Western Clydesdales (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs) maintain affiliations with NSW-based NRL clubs, and usually do not receive any players to play in Queensland Cup for these teams. However in April, a player availability issue at the Townsville Blackhawks saw South Sydney loan a player to the Blackhawks in a switch signed off by both the New South Wales Rugby League and Queensland Rugby League governing bodies.^[3]

Colours	Club	Home ground(s)	Head coach(s)	Captain(s)	NRL Affiliate
	Brisbane Tigers	Totally Workwear Stadium	Matt Church	Ryley Jacks	Melbourne Storm
	Burleigh Bears	UAA Park	Luke Burt	Sami Sauiluma	Brisbane Broncos
	Central Queensland Capras	Browne Park	Lionel Harbin	Blake Moore	Dolphins
	Ipswich Jets	North Ipswich Reserve	Ben Cross	Rhys Jacks	Gold Coast Titans
	Mackay Cutters	BB Print Stadium	Michael Comerford	Sean Mullany	North Queensland Cowboys
	Northern Pride	Barlow Park	Eric Smith	Kyle Schneider	North Queensland Cowboys
	Norths Devils	Bishop Park	David Elliott	Kierran Moseley	Dolphins
	Papua New Guinea Hunters	Santos National Football Stadium	Paul Aiton[4]	Ila Alu	None
	Redcliffe Dolphins	Kayo Stadium	Ben Te'o	Max Bailey	Dolphins
	Souths Logan Magpies	Davies Park Logan Metro Sports Complex	Karmichael Hunt	Rory Ferguson	Brisbane Broncos
	Sunshine Coast Falcons	Sunshine Coast Stadium	Brad Henderson	Patrice Siolo	Melbourne Storm
	Townsville Blackhawks	Jack Manski Oval	Terry Campese[5]	Kyle Laybutt	South Sydney Rabbitohs
	Tweed Heads Seagulls	Piggabeen Sports Complex	David Penna	Lindon McGrady	Gold Coast Titans
	Western Clydesdales	Clive Berghofer Stadium	Jason Alchin	Emry Pere	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
	Wynnum-Manly Seagulls	BMD Kougari Oval	Mathew Head	Bryce Donovan	Brisbane Broncos

Regular season

• Fixtures and results

Season summary

Ladder

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Burleigh Bears	7	5	0	2	0	214	135	+79	10	Finals series
2	Mackay Cutters	6	4	0	2	1	186	127	+59	10
3	Sunshine Coast Falcons	7	5	0	2	0	180	126	+54	10
4	Northern Pride	6	4	0	2	1	158	112	+46	10
5	Redcliffe Dolphins	7	5	0	2	0	185	152	+33	10
6	Wynnum Manly Seagulls	5	3	0	2	2	134	126	+8	10
7	Norths Devils	7	4	0	3	0	177	120	+57	8
8	Tweed Heads Seagulls	6	3	0	3	1	168	146	+22	8
9	Brisbane Tigers	6	2	1	3	1	132	130	+2	7
10	Central Queensland Capras	7	3	1	3	0	144	150	−6	7
11	Townsville Blackhawks	7	3	0	4	0	131	170	−39	6
12	Papua New Guinea Hunters	6	2	0	4	1	148	193	−45	6
13	Souths Logan Magpies	6	2	0	4	1	122	190	−68	6
14	Ipswich Jets	6	1	0	5	1	114	166	−52	4
15	Western Clydesdales	5	0	0	5	2	52	202	−150	4

Ladder progression

• Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top eight.
• Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
• Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.
• Underlined numbers indicate that the team had a bye during that round.

See also

• Queensland Cup
• Queensland Rugby League

References