Eight teams from across the city contested during the season for the premiership and the Royal Agricultural Society Challenge Shield.

During the season, many of the league’s top players took part in matches of the 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia.

[3] During the season Annandale’s Ray, Roy, Rex and Bernard Norman became the first set of four brothers to play in the same NSWRFL side.

[6] With the loss of Cumberland at the end of the 1908 season, the league remained with eight teams; a preferable outcome since no byes would be needed.

The rules at the time allowed Hawkes to claim a "fair mark" and Newtown to have a shot at goal.