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| title          = ACTRU Premier Division
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| sport          = [[Rugby Union]]
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| country        = Australia
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| champion       = [[Canberra Royals]]
| most_champs    = [[Canberra Royals]]
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| website        = [http://www.brumbies.com.au/CommunityRugby/ACTCompetitions/PremierDivision.aspx Website]
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The '''ACTRU Premier Division''' is a [[rugby union]] club competition based in [[Canberra]], Australia, and conducted by the region's governing body, the [[ACT and Southern NSW Rugby Union]]. It contains four Senior Grades of competition plus Colts, and is competed by the six ACT Premier Division clubs, plus a team from the ADFA, which fields teams in Colts and 3rd Grade only. First Grade teams compete for the '''John I Dent Cup'''. The silver cup, which was first played for in 1938,<ref name = ct-03-38/><ref name = ct-27-01-39/> was a gift to the union by the [[Pastoral farming|pastoralist]] John I Dent.<ref name = ct-03-38/> The competition finals are now held at [[Viking Park]].<ref name = jid-vikings-2014/>

== Premier Division clubs ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Team
!City/Suburb/Town
!Home Ground
|-
|[[File:Eastwood_Colours.svg|40x40px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|[[Canberra]]
|Canberra Rugby Club
|-
|[[File:Norths_Colours.svg|40x40px|.]] [[Gungahlin Eagles]]
|[[Gungahlin]]
|Gungahlin Enclosed Oval
|-
|[[File:Easts 1901.svg|40x40px|.]] [[Eastern Suburbs RUFC (Canberra)|Easts Beasts]] (''in recess'')
|[[Griffith, Australian Capital Territory|Griffith]]
|Griffith Oval, Easts Rugby Club
|-
|
[[File:Queanbeyan_Whites_Colours.svg|40x40px|.]] [[Queanbeyan Whites]]
|[[Queanbeyan]]
|David Campese Field Queanbeyan
|-
|[[File:West Harbour Colours.svg|40x40px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|[[Tuggeranong]]
|Viking Park
|-
|[[File:Gordon_Colours.svg|40x40px|.]] [[Uni-Norths Owls]]
|[[Canberra]] ([[Australian National University|A.N.U]])
|University Oval
|-
|[[File:Queensland_Uni_Colours.svg|40x40px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|[[Belconnen]]
|Wests Rugby Club
|}

==John I Dent Cup winners==
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{| class="wikitable" style="flex-grow:1"
! Year !! Premiers<ref name = jid-vikings-2014/>
|-
|2024|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|2023|| [[Image:Norths Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Gungahlin Eagles]]
|-
|2022|| [[Image:Queanbeyan Whites Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Queanbeyan Whites]]
|-
|2021|| ''[[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports#Rugby union|Cancelled due to COVID-19]]''{{hsp}}{{efn|Play-offs cancelled in 2021 due to the impact of COVID-19. Tuggeranong Vikings were minor premiers.<ref>{{cite web |date=15 September 2021 |quote=With the cancellation of the remainder of the season, the 83-year-old John I Dent Cup will not be awarded for the first time since 1944. |website=Brumbies Rugby |title=2021 Callida Consulting John I Dent Cup season cancelled due to ACT lockdown |url=https://brumbies.rugby/news/2021/09/15/john-dent-cup-season-cancelled |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915203420/https://brumbies.rugby/news/2021/09/15/john-dent-cup-season-cancelled |archive-date=15 September 2021 |access-date=16 September 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
|-
|2020|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|2019|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|2018|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|2017|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|2016|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|2015|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|2014|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|2013|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|2012|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|2011|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|2010|| [[Image:Queanbeyan Whites Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Queanbeyan Whites]]
|-
|2009|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|2008|| [[Image:Queanbeyan Whites Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Queanbeyan Whites]]
|-
|2007|| [[Image:Queanbeyan Whites Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Queanbeyan Whites]]
|-
|2006|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|2005|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|2004|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|2003|| [[Image:Norths Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Gungahlin Eagles]]
|-
|2002|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|2001|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|2000|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|1999|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|1998|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|1997|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|1996|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|1995|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|1994|| [[Image:West Harbour Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Tuggeranong Vikings]]
|-
|1993|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|1992|| [[Image:Brothers_Rugby_Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Uni-Norths Owls|ANU]]
|-
|1991|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1990|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1990|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1989|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1988|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1987|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1986|| [[Image:Norths Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Daramalan Rugby Club|Daramalan]]
|-
|1985|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1984|| [[Image:Norths Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Daramalan Rugby Club|Daramalan]]
|-
|1983|| [[Image:Queanbeyan Whites Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Queanbeyan Whites]]
|-
|1982|| [[Image:Queanbeyan Whites Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Queanbeyan Whites]]
|-
|1981|| [[Image:Queanbeyan Whites Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Queanbeyan Whites]]
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="flex-grow:1"
! Year !! Premiers<ref name = jid-vikings-2014/>
|-
|1980|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1979|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1978|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|1977|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1976|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|1975|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|1974|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|1973|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|1972|| [[Image:Gordon Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Uni-Norths Owls|Northern Suburbs]]
|-
|1971|| [[Image:Gordon Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Uni-Norths Owls|Northern Suburbs]]
|-
|1970|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|1969|| [[Image:Queensland Uni Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Wests Lions]]
|-
|1968|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1967|| [[Image:Gordon Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Uni-Norths Owls|Northern Suburbs]]
|-
|1966|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1965|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1964|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1963|| [[Image:Gordon Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Uni-Norths Owls|Northern Suburbs]]
|-
|1962|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1961|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1960|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1959|| [[Image:Queanbeyan Whites Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Queanbeyan Whites]]
|-
|1958|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1957|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1956|| [[Image:Gordon Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Uni-Norths Owls|Northern Suburbs]]
|-
|1955|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1954|| [[Image:Eastwood Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Canberra Royals]]
|-
|1953|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1952|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1951|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1950|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC No. 2<ref name = ct-1993/>
|-
|1949|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1948|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC & [[Image:Gordon Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Uni-Norths Owls|Northern Suburbs]]
|-
|1947|| [[Image:Eastern Suburbs Colours horizontal.svg|18px|.]] [[Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union Club Canberra|Eastern Suburbs]]
|-
|1946|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1945|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1944|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1943|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1942|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1941|| [[Image:Eastern Suburbs Colours horizontal.svg|18px|.]] [[Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union Club Canberra|Eastern Suburbs]] &  [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] RMC
|-
|1940|| [[Image:Gordon Colours.svg|18px|.]] [[Uni-Norths Owls|Northern Suburbs]]
|-
|1939|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] Royal Military College (RMC)
|-
|1938|| [[Image:RMC Rugby Colours.svg|18px|.]] Royal Military College (RMC)
|}
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==See also==
{{Portal|Australia}}
*[[Rugby union in the Australian Capital Territory]]
*[[List of Australian club rugby union competitions]]

==References==
{{reflist<!--|colwidth=25em-->|refs=

<ref name = ct-03-38>{{cite news 
 |date= 23 March 1938
 |title= Club Control – Rugby Union By-Laws
 |work= The Canberra Times
 |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2454577
 |access-date= 4 November 2015}}
</ref>

<ref name = ct-27-01-39>{{cite news 
 |date= 27 January 1939
 |title= Norths' Annual Meeting
 |work= The Canberra Times
 |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2474570
 |access-date= 4 November 2015}}
</ref>

<ref name=jid-vikings-2014>{{cite web
 |year        = 2014
 |title       = John I Dent Cup
 |publisher   = Vikings Rugby
 |access-date  = 27 December 2014
 |url         = http://vikingsrugby.com.au/about-us/trophy-cabinet/john-i-dent-cup/
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20141228125709/http://vikingsrugby.com.au/about-us/trophy-cabinet/john-i-dent-cup/
 |archive-date = 28 December 2014
 |df          = dmy-all
}}</ref>

<ref name = ct-1993>{{cite web 
 |date= 17 September 1993
 |title=  Dent Cup prepares to move yet again
 |work= The Canberra Times
 |access-date= 27 December 2014
 |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127247846}}
</ref>

}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150107231412/http://www.brumbies.com.au/CommunityRugby/ACTCompetitions.aspx ACT Competitions]

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