The North Queensland Cowboys are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Townsville, Queensland, and compete in Australasian premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League premiership.
The Cowboys were admitted to the Australian Rugby League competition in 1995 and subsequently played in the Super League competition in 1997 and have featured in the current National Rugby League competition from 1998 to the present day. The Cowboys play their home games at Dairy Farmers Stadium in the City of Thuringowa in North Queensland. The club have never won a premiership, however, finished as runners-up in 2005. On 28 August 2007 it was announced that after 6 years of ownership, News Limited had sold the team to the Cowboys League Club.
