Rugby league is back! On Thursday evening, the newly-named pre-season challenge will kick-off with the New Zealand Warriors set to take on the Wests Tigers in Auckland.

The 17 NRL clubs - including new entrant the Dolphins - will be joined by St Helens over the next two weeks for the pre-season challenge, with $100,000 in prize money available per team.

All squads are allowed to name up to 28 players this weekend, and 26 players next weekend with the name of the game still to get ready for the season proper, which kicks off in the first week of March.

Set to the backdrop of looming strike action over the non-negotiation collective bargaining agreement, this weekend will also feature the men's and women's All Stars, meaning we will have 11 games to be played between Thursday night and Sunday afternoon.

The pre-season challenge games will feature rules designed to favour attacking rugby league, with teams able to accumulate competition points through the following methods:

12 points for a win
6 points for a draw
1 bonus point for 5 or more tries
1 bonus point for 5 or more line breaks
1 bonus point for 10 or more offloads

Here are the teams and officials for all of the Week 1 fixtures.

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Brisbane Broncos vs Gold Coast Titans

Kick-off: Sunday, February 12, 8:05pm (AEDT)
Venue: Barlow Park, Cairns
Referee: Darian Furner

Brisbane Broncos

1. Reece Walsh, 2. Jordan Pereira, 3. Kotoni Staggs, 4. Herbie Farnworth, 5. Deine Mariner, 6. Ezra Mam, 7. Jack Ahearn, 15. Logan Bayliss, 9. Cory Paix, 10. Payne Haas, 11. Shalom O'Ofou, 12. Brendan Frei, 13. Corey Jensen
Interchange: 14. Billy Walters,  16. Martin Taupau, 17. Benjamin Te Kura 18. Ethan Quai-Ward, 19. Tyson Smoothy, 20. Tristan Sailor, 21. Josh Rogers, 22. James Johnson 23. Brendan Piakura

Gold Coast Titans

1. Jayden Campbell, 2. Alofiana Khan-Pereira, 3. Aaron Schoupp, 4. Phillip Sami, 5. Jojo Fifita, 6. Toby Sexton, 7. Tanah Boyd (c), 8. Jaimin Jolliffe, 14. Sam McIntyre, 10. Joe Stimson, 11. David Fifita, 12. Klese Haas, 13. Erin Clark
Interchange:  15. Iszac Fa'asuamaleaui, 16. Joseph Vuna, 17. Treymain Spry, 18. Thomas Weaver, 19. Keano Kini, 20. Jaylan De Groot, 21. Tony Francis, 22. Josiah Pahulu, 23. Vaka Sikahele, 24. Jacob Alick, 25. Ryan Foran, 26. Jaron Purcell

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