Redcliffe Dolphins
Brisbane Rugby League | |
2023 season | 6th |
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Current season | |
Records | |
Premierships | 2 (1965, 1994) |
Runners-up | 6 (1973, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1987) |
Minor premierships | 4 (1977, 1978, 1983, 1994) |
Wooden spoons | 0 |
Premierships (2nd grade) | 7 (1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2018) |
Runners-up (2nd grade) | 6 (1999, 2001, 2007, 2012, 2016, 2022) |
Minor premierships (2nd grade) | 6 (1999, 2000, 2002, 2012, 2016, 2018) |
Premierships (3rd grade) | 7 (1997, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016) |
Runners-up (3rd grade) | 6 (1996, 2002, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2018) |
Most capped | 270 – Troy Lindsay |
Highest points scorer | 1211 – Liam Georgetown |
The Redcliffe Dolphins are a semi-professional
Although a separately licensed Dolphins (NRL) team currently competes in the fully professional national competition,[2] the Redcliffe squad continues to play in the Queensland competition. Through this NRL licence, the Dolphins organisation has become the only former BRL club to regain top-flight status after that competition became a second-tier league with the advent of the Brisbane Broncos in 1988.
History
Founded on 27 February 1947, Redcliffe District Rugby League Football Club Inc. (known as Shellgrit) entered Under 17, Reserve Grade and First Grade teams in that year's Sandgate Suburban Rugby League competition. Through the 1950s, Redcliffe also played in the Kilcoy, Murrumba and Geraghty Cup competitions. On 19 November 1959, Redcliffe received full district club status and was accepted into the Brisbane first grade competition.[3]
Throughout the 1960s, a number of famous players came through the ranks of the Dolphins to represent Queensland and
Redcliffe defeated Toowoomba in the 2006 Queensland Cup grand final at
NRL Team
From 2023 onwards, the Redcliffe Dolphins' fully professional spin-off team, known simply as the Dolphins, compete separately in the National Rugby League.[7][8] Notwithstanding, the semi-professional Redcliffe Dolphins continue to compete as they are in the Queensland Cup and other Queensland rugby league competitions.
Home ground
Redcliffe's current home ground,
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Leagues Club wall
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Kayo Stadium
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Stadium goal posts
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Moreton Daily signage (now Kayo Stadium)
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Stadium view from club
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Redcliffe Leagues Club
Queensland Cup results
- 1996: Runners-up
- 1997: Premiers
- 1998: Preliminary finalists
- 1999: Runners-up
- 2000: Premiers
- 2001: Runners-up
- 2002: Premiers
- 2003: Premiers
- 2004: 6th
- 2005: Preliminary finalists
- 2006: Premiers
- 2007: Runners-up
- 2008: Semi Finalists
- 2009: 11th
- 2010: 8th
- 2011: Preliminary Finals
- 2012: Runners-up
- 2013: 8th
- 2014: 11th
- 2015: 7th
- 2016: Runners-up
- 2017: 2nd
- 2018: Premiers
- 2019: 7th
- 2020: Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic
- 2021: 5th
- 2022: Runners-up
Notable players
- Arthur Beetson
- Petero Civoniceva
- Chris Close
- Greg Conescu
- Michael Crocker
- Wally Fullerton-Smith
- Dane Gagai
- Henry Holloway
- Adam Lawton
- Adam Mogg
- Bryan Niebling
- Greg Oliphant
- Shane Perry
- John Ribot
- Brent Tate
- Reece Walsh
- Kevin Yow Yeh
See also
References
- ^ Gorman, Joe (26 February 2017). "Redcliffe Dolphins: 70 years growing and with ambitious plans for future in NRL". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ "Dolphins granted licence to become NRL's 17th team in 2023". National Rugby League. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ "About". Redcliffe Dolphins. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- News Limited. Archived from the originalon 23 February 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ "About - Redcliffe Dolphins". Redcliffe Dolphins. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ "Injured Tigers dazzled by Dolphins dangerman". www.qrl.com.au.
- ^ "The $100m bid to blow Broncos away". Courier Mail. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- ^ "Dolphins granted licence to become NRL's 17th team in 2023". National Rugby League. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ "Dolphin Stadium | Austadiums". www.austadiums.com. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
Sources
- Redcliffe Dolphins Statistics (archived). Originally retrieved 7 December 2005
External links
Media related to Redcliffe Dolphins at Wikimedia Commons