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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South Sydney Rabbitohs vs Manly Sea Eagles

Kick-off: Friday, February 10, 8pm (AEDT)
Venue: Industree Group Stadium, Gosford
Referee: Todd Smith

South Sydney Rabbitohs

1. Blake Taaffe, 2. Richie Kennar, 3. Josiah Karapani, 4. Jacob Gagai, 5. Leon Te Hau, 6. Dion Teaupa, 7. Jarrett Subloo, 8. Hame Sele, 9. Peter Mamouzelos, 10. Davvy Moale, 11. Michael Chee-Kam, 12. Jacob Host (c), 13. Tallis Duncan
Interchange: 14. Terrell Kalo Kalo, 15. Ethan O'Neill, 16. Ben Lovett, 17. Louis Grossemy, 18. Romano Cook, 19. Jaxson Rahme, 20. Tom Carr 21. Shannon Gardiner, 22. Leonard Skelton, 23. Hugo Patterson, 24. Brock Gray

Manly Sea Eagles

1. Jake Toby 2. Christian Tuipulotu 3. Jackson Ferris 4. Fletcher Myers 5. Ray Tuaimalo-Vaega 6. Cooper Johns 7. Jamie Humphreys 8. Toafofoa Sipley 9. Gordon Chan Kum Tong 10. Ben Condon 11. Ben Trbojevic 12. Samuela Fainu 13. Ethan Bullemor
Interchange: 14. Harradyn Wilson 15. Zac Fulton 16. Cameron Brown 17. Viliami Fifita 18. Jacob Sykes 19. Charlie Thompson 20. Joshua Stuckey 21. Dean Matterson 22. James Uesele 23. Joey Tramontana

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