The 1987 National Panasonic Cup was the 14th edition of the NSWRL Midweek Cup, a NSWRL-organised national club Rugby League tournament between the leading clubs from the NSWRL, the BRL, the CRL, Papua New Guinea and State Representative Teams.

A total of 20 teams from across Australia and Papua New Guinea played 19 matches in a straight knock-out format, with the matches being held midweek during the premiership season.

Sydney			Tamworth	Bathurst	Tweed Heads	Perth	Goroka
Leichhardt Oval	Parramatta Stadium	Belmore Sports Ground	Scully Park	Carrington Park	Chris Cunningham Field	Lathlain Park	Danny Leahy Oval
Capacity: 23,000	Capacity: 28,000	Capacity: 28,000	Capacity: 13,000	Capacity: 12,000	Capacity: 13,500	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 10,000

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	Port Moresby (PNG)	52	Northern Territory	5	Danny Leahy Oval
19/04/87	Port Moresby (PNG)	50	Western Australia	10	Danny Leahy Oval

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
4/03/87	Canterbury-Bankstown (Bennett, Hagan, O’Brien, Bugden tries, Farrar 3 goals)	22	Manly-Warringah (Davis try)	4	Leichhardt Oval	David Gillespie - Canterbury-Bankstown
11/03/87	North Sydney (Friend, Lennon 2, Graham tries, McArthur 2 goals)	24	Western Suburbs (Davis try, Naden goal)	6	Leichhardt Oval	Mark Graham - North Sydney
18/03/87	Parramatta (Eden, Jackson, Sharp tries, Eden 6 goals, Muggleton field goal)	25	Illawarra (Carney, Upfield tries, Carney 4 goals)	16	Leichhardt Oval	Mike Eden - Parramatta
25/03/87	Cronulla-Sutherland (Docking 2, Russell tries, Stains, Wilson 2 goals)	20	Canberra (Belcher try, Meninga 2 goals)	8	Carrington Park	Jonathan Docking - Cronulla-Sutherland
1/04/87	South Sydney (Mavin, Harrington, P.Roberts, Blake tries, Baker 3 goals, Baker field goal)	23	St George (Wynn try, Quinton goal)	6	Scully Park	Craig Coleman - South Sydney
8/04/87	Penrith (Robards, Bevan, Alexander tries, Bevan goal)	14	Combined Brisbane (Hegarty goal)	2	Leichhardt Oval	Craig Izzard - Penrith
22/04/87	Balmain (Sinclair, Camroux 2, Grounds, Owens, John Davidson, Davies, Bevan, Gale, McGuire tries, Conlon 6, Elias 3 goals)	62	Port Moresby (PNG) (Saea try, Kovae 2 goals)	8	Leichhardt Oval	Bruce Sinclair - Balmain
29/04/87	Eastern Suburbs (French 3, McGahan 2, Challis, Morris, Spina, Simpkins tries, Portlock 5, Smith 4 goals)	54	NSW Country	0	Leichhardt Oval	Hugh McGahan - Eastern Suburbs

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
15/04/87	Parramatta (Crnkovich, Delroy, Laurie tries, Eden 3 goals)	18	North Sydney (I.French try)	4	Leichhardt Oval	Terry Leabeater - Parramatta
6/05/87	Balmain (John Davidson, Camroux tries, Conlon goal, Elias field goal)	11	South Sydney (Blake try, Ellison 3 goals)	10	Belmore Sports Ground	Ben Elias - Balmain
13/05/87	Eastern Suburbs (Challis, McGahan tries, Smith 2 goals)	12	Canterbury-Bankstown (P.Mortimer, Lamb tries, Lamb goal)	10	Chris Cunningham Field	Hugh McGahan - Eastern Suburbs
20/05/87	Penrith (Alexander 2 tries, Clements 3 goals)	14	Cronulla-Sutherland (Coleman try, Wilson goal)	6	Leichhardt Oval	Greg Alexander - Penrith

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
27/05/87	Penrith (B.Izzard, Smith, Alexander, Geyer, Vitanza tries, Fitzhenry 6 goals)	32	Parramatta (Erickson, Kenny, Sterling, Mares tries, Muggleton 3 goals)	22	Leichhardt Oval	Greg Alexander - Penrith
3/06/87	Balmain (Hanrahan, Neil, Sironen tries, Conlon goal)	14	Eastern Suburbs (Lydon try, Smith 4 goals)	12	Belmore Sports Ground	Scott Gale - Balmain

1987 National Panasonic Cup Final

10 June 1987

Balmain Tigers	14 – 12	Penrith Panthers
Tries: 2 Scott Gale Russel Gartner Goals: 3 Ross Conlon	[1]	Tries: 2 Mark Robinson Andrew Fitzhenry Goals: 2 Andrew Fitzhenry

Parramatta Stadium Attendance: 16,823 Referee: Mick Stone Player of the Match: Ben Elias (Balmain)

• Ben Elias (Balmain)

• Steve O'Brien (Canterbury-Bankstown)

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092939/http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/aus/nsw/sum/nsw1987.htm
• Rugby League Project - Port Moresby Vipers [1]