The two old foes will match-up on Sunday at the same ground in a mouth-watering prelude to the first week of the finals, but with neither side able to be removed from the top three the final round result is irrelevant.

With that in mind, the Rhinos and Bulls will be gearing up for the opening week of the finals with the winner of the qualifying semi-final set to earn a shot at minor premiers Trundle in the major semi-final.

Canowindra will host the first games of the 2019 finals series after Tom Clyburn Oval was confirmed as the venue for the elimination semi-finals on Saturday, August 17.

The Tigers will play either Grenfell or Peak Hill in that clash.

Condobolin will host the major semi-final the following week, with Trundle aiming to win on the road in their bid to play in a home grand final - the Boomers were confirmed as grand final hosts a month ago.

Grenfell (minor semi-finals, August 24) and Cargo (preliminary finals, September 1) are the other clubs to earn finals hosting rights in 2019.

Cup president Andrew Pull said clubs make a submission to the Woodbridge committee based on ground availability and allocations are made from there.

Seven of the Cup's nine clubs applied to host finals in 2019.

"And this time of year lots of grounds have rugby, AFL, junior league or a show on, so we ask who is available and look at previous years and go from there," he said.

"We try and give the teams playing in the finals a chance to host one and the teams that aren't playing we'll allocate them a raffle to run on one of our bigger days like grand final. "

With this season being Molong's first back in the competition, the Bulls were ineligible to host a finals game in 2019.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 17: Elimination semi-finals at Canowindra.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 18: Qualifying semi-finals at Manildra.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24: Minor semi-finals at Grenfell.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25: Major semi-finals at Condobolin.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1: Preliminary finals at Cargo.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1: Grand finals at Trundle.