MacTier Cup

The MacTier Cup is the name of the championship for the top senior men's rugby league in Canada.

Originally awarded to the champion of the Rugby Canada Super League (RCSL), the MacTier Cup was established in 1998 along with the RCSL. The first MacTier Cup Championship match was played between the Vancouver Island Crimson Tide and the Nova Scotia Keiths. Vancouver Island defeated Halifax in that game. The champions of the final RCSL championship were the Newfoundland Rock, who won the cup in 2008 after defeating the Calgary Mavericks 30–6.

Since 2009, the Cup has been awarded to the winners of the Canadian Rugby Championship (CRC). Since the inception of the CRC, the Ontario Blues have won the MacTier Cup six times, The BC Bears have won the Cup two times, while the Prairie Wolf Pack and the Atlantic Rock both have won the cup one time.

Champions

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Year

!Champion

!Score

!Runner-up

colspan=4|Rugby Canada Super League
1998

| Vancouver Island Crimson Tide

| align="center"|—

| Nova Scotia Keiths

1999

| Vancouver Island Crimson Tide (2)

|align="center"|23–11

| Toronto Renegades

2000

| Fraser Valley Venom

|align="center"|15–9

| Nova Scotia Keltics

2001

| Fraser Valley Venom (2)

|align="center"|20–14

| Toronto Renegades

2002

| Vancouver Island Crimson Tide (3)

|align="center"|6–3

| Newfoundland Rock

2003

| Calgary Mavericks

|align="center"|40–24

| Toronto Xtreme

2004

| Vancouver Island Crimson Tide (4)

|align="center"|14–8

| Newfoundland Rock

2005

| Newfoundland Rock

|align="center"|26–13

| Saskatchewan Prairie Fire

2006

| Newfoundland Rock (2)

|align="center"|28–14

| Saskatchewan Prairie Fire

2007

| Saskatchewan Prairie Fire

|align="center"|28–12

| Niagara Thunder

2008

| Newfoundland Rock (3)

|align="center"|30–6

| Calgary Mavericks

colspan=4|Canadian Rugby Championship
2009

| British Columbia Bears (1)

|align="center"|—

| Ontario Blues

2010

| The Rock (1)

|align="center"|—

| Prairie Wolf Pack

2011

| Ontario Blues (1)

|align="center"|21–19

| The Rock

2012

|Ontario Blues (2)

|align="center"|—

|Prairie Wolf Pack

2013

|Ontario Blues (3)

|align="center"|—

|Prairie Wolf Pack

2014

|Ontario Blues (4)

|align="center"|—

|Prairie Wolf Pack

2015{{Cite web|url=http://www.americasrugbynews.com/2015/07/02/wolf-pack-best-blues-to-win-mactier-cup/|title=Wolf Pack best Blues to win MacTier Cup|date=2 July 2015}}

|Prairie Wolf Pack(1)

|align="center"|33–25

|Ontario Blues

2016

|Ontario Blues(5)

|align="center"|—

|Prairie Wolf Pack

2017

|British Columbia Bears(2)

|align="center"|30–29

|Ontario Blues

2018

|Ontario Blues (6)

|align="center"|22–17

|Atlantic Rock

References