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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St George Illawarra Dragons vs St Helens

Kick-off: Saturday, February 11, 8:05pm (AEDT)
Venue: WIN Stadium, Wollongong
Referee: Liam Kennedy

St George Illawarra Dragons

1. Treigh Stewart 2. Mathew Feagai 3. Moses Suli 4. Zac Lomax 5. Mikaele Ravalawa 6. Connor Muhleisen 7. Moses Mbyeย  17. Joshua Coric 9. Jacob Liddle 10. Blake Lawrie 11. Ben Murdoch-Masila 12. Billy Burns 13. Jaiyden Hunt
Interchange: 14. Tautau Moga 15. Max Feagaiย ย 18. Nick Lui-Toso 19. Dan Russell 20. Haele Finau 21. Sione Finau 22. Alexander Lobb 23. Savelio Tamale 24. Jackson Sherebย 25. Joshua Cookย 26. Toby Couchman 27. Zac Herringย 28. Dylan Eganย 29. Ryan Couchmanย 30. Aaron Johnson

St Helens

1. Jack Welsby 2. Tommy Makinsonย  23. Konrad Hurrell 4. Mark Percival 3. Will Hopoate 6. Jonny Lomax 7. Lewis Dodd 8. Alex Walmsley 9. James Roby 10. Matty Lees 11. Sione Mata'utia 12. Joe Batchelor 19. James Bell
Interchange: 5. Jonathan Bennison 13. Morgan Knowles 14. Joey Lussick 15. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook 16. Curtis Sironen 17. Agnatius Paasi 18. Jake Wingfieldย ย 20. Daniel Norman 21. Ben Davies 22. Sam Royle 24. Lewis Baxter

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