The National Panasonic Cup was a mid-week rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 competition held in Australia

Australia

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. For background information about this competition, please refer to the Amco Cup

Amco Cup

The Amco Cup was a mid-week rugby league competition held in Australia between 1974 and 1989. The format was usually a straight knock-out, but various group formats were used between 1979 and 1982...

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Format

The addition of Northern Territory, South Australia and Victoria brought the competition up to 20 teams, participating in a straight knock-out. There was a random draw for all rounds other than the Preliminary Rounds.

Preliminary rounds

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue
5/04/87	Western Australia	18	South Australia	14	Perth
12/04/87	Western Australia	28	Victoria	10	Perth
12/04/87	Papua New Guinea	52	Northern Territory	5	Port Moresby
19/04/87	Papua New Guinea	50	Western Australia	10	Perth

Round 1

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue
4/03/87	Canterbury	22	Manly	4	Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a football stadium in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia. It is a home ground for the Wests Tigers rugby league team. The stadium has a nominal capacity of 20,000, with recorded highest crowd figures of 23,000 in the 1981 KB Tooth final South Sydney Rabbitohs versus...
11/03/87	North Sydney	?	Wests	?	Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a football stadium in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia. It is a home ground for the Wests Tigers rugby league team. The stadium has a nominal capacity of 20,000, with recorded highest crowd figures of 23,000 in the 1981 KB Tooth final South Sydney Rabbitohs versus...
18/03/87	Parramatta	25	Illawarra	16	Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a football stadium in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia. It is a home ground for the Wests Tigers rugby league team. The stadium has a nominal capacity of 20,000, with recorded highest crowd figures of 23,000 in the 1981 KB Tooth final South Sydney Rabbitohs versus...
25/03/87	Cronulla	20	Canberra	8	Bathurst
1/04/87	South Sydney	23	St George	6	Tamworth
8/04/87	Penrith	14	Brisbane	2	Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a football stadium in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia. It is a home ground for the Wests Tigers rugby league team. The stadium has a nominal capacity of 20,000, with recorded highest crowd figures of 23,000 in the 1981 KB Tooth final South Sydney Rabbitohs versus...
22/04/87	Balmain	62	Port Moresby	8	Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a football stadium in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia. It is a home ground for the Wests Tigers rugby league team. The stadium has a nominal capacity of 20,000, with recorded highest crowd figures of 23,000 in the 1981 KB Tooth final South Sydney Rabbitohs versus...
29/04/87	Easts	54	NSW Country	0	Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a football stadium in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia. It is a home ground for the Wests Tigers rugby league team. The stadium has a nominal capacity of 20,000, with recorded highest crowd figures of 23,000 in the 1981 KB Tooth final South Sydney Rabbitohs versus...

Quarter finals

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue
15/04/87	Parramatta	16	North Sydney	4	Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a football stadium in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia. It is a home ground for the Wests Tigers rugby league team. The stadium has a nominal capacity of 20,000, with recorded highest crowd figures of 23,000 in the 1981 KB Tooth final South Sydney Rabbitohs versus...
6/05/87	Balmain	11	South Sydney	10	Belmore Sports Ground
13/05/87	Easts	12	Canterbury	10	Tweed Heads
20/05/87	Penrith	14	Cronulla	6	Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a football stadium in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia. It is a home ground for the Wests Tigers rugby league team. The stadium has a nominal capacity of 20,000, with recorded highest crowd figures of 23,000 in the 1981 KB Tooth final South Sydney Rabbitohs versus...

Semi finals

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue
27/05/87	Penrith	32	Parramatta	22	Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a football stadium in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia. It is a home ground for the Wests Tigers rugby league team. The stadium has a nominal capacity of 20,000, with recorded highest crowd figures of 23,000 in the 1981 KB Tooth final South Sydney Rabbitohs versus...
3/06/87	Balmain	14	Easts	12	Belmore Sports Ground

Final

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue
10/06/87	Balmain	14	Penrith	12	Parramatta Stadium Parramatta Stadium Parramatta Stadium is a sports stadium situated in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.The stadium is used primarily as the home ground of Australian National Rugby League club the Parramatta Eels...

Sources

• http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/aus/nsw/sum/nsw1987.htm