2002 NRL Challenge Base Set
The 2002 NRL Challenge Base Set forms the backbone of the entire release, featuring a wide spread of players from every NRL club of the era. It’s a straight-shooting, player-focused checklist that captures the competition as it stood in the early 2000s — before jersey sponsors got bigger than the logos.
Base Set Breakdown
The base set consists primarily of player cards from each NRL team, typically supported by club logo cards and checklists. With roughly a dozen cards per club, it offers balanced team representation and makes set building achievable without needing to sell a kidney.
Why Collect the Base Set?
Affordable, nostalgic, and easy to complete, the 2002 NRL Challenge base cards are ideal for team collectors, player collectors, and anyone chasing a full set without modern-day short prints and parallels getting in the way. Sometimes, simple footy cards are exactly what the doctor ordered.
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NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #3 Newcastle Knights Logo -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #8 Ben Kennedy Newcastle Knights -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #9 John Morris Newcastle Knights -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #11 Steve Simpson Newcastle Knights -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #30 Colin Best Cronulla Sutherland Sharks -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #32 Nick Graham Cronulla Sutherland Sharks -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #34 Matthew Johns Cronulla Sutherland Sharks -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #35 Chris McKenna Cronulla Sutherland Sharks -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #36 Paul Mellor Cronulla Sutherland Sharks -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #37 Jason Stevens Cronulla Sutherland Sharks -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #38 Andrew Ettingshausen Cronulla Sutherland Sharks -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #39 Brisbane Broncos Logo -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #40 Gorden Tallis Brisbane Broncos -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #43 Petero Civoniceva Brisbane Broncos -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #52 Steven Price Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #57 Travis Norton Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #59 Nigel Vagana Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #64 Trent Barrett St George Illawarra Dragons -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #65 Luke Bailey St George Illawarra Dragons -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #66 Nathan Blacklock St George Illawarra Dragons -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #67 Mark Gasnier St George Illawarra Dragons -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #69 Willie Peters St George Illawarra Dragons -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #70 Mark Riddell St George Illawarra Dragons -
NRL 2002 Challenge Base Card #71 Jason Ryles St George Illawarra Dragons
