(Not to be confused with Brisbane Broncos.) The Brisbane rugby league team was an Australian representative rugby league football side made up of players from the Brisbane Rugby League's first-grade premiership clubs. Also called Brisbane Firsts or Combined Brisbane, the team was assembled occasionally from 1907, the year rugby league football was first played in Australia, until 1988, the year the Brisbane Broncos began competing in the NSWRL's Winfield Cup premiership.