Sutherland Oval

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Sutherland Oval
LocationThe Grand Parade, Sutherland, New South Wales
Coordinates 34°01′43″S151°03′06″E / 34.028534°S 151.051727°E / -34.028534; 151.051727
SurfaceGrass
Tenants
Cronulla Sutherland Sharks (NSWRL) (1967–1968); Southern Sharks (Jim Beam Cup) (2008); Sutherland Loftus United (CSDRFL) (1912–); Sutherland Sharks FC (NSWPL) (late 1950s–1958)

Sutherland Oval is a sporting ground, situated in Sutherland, New South Wales. It has been used for professional Rugby League matches, as well as for lower tiered Soccer and Rugby Union matches over the years.

Sutherland, New South Wales Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sutherland is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Sutherland is located 30 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.

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In the late 1950s, the Sutherland Sharks FC football (soccer) club played at the ground, before moving to Seymour Shaw Park, in the NSW Premier League competition.

Sutherland Sharks FC

Sutherland Sharks Football Club is an Australian Association football club based in the suburb of Sutherland in Sydney New South Wales. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW. The club's home games are played at Seymour Shaw Park, located in the southern Sydney suburb of Miranda. It recently opened a new academy. It is incorporated as a non-profit club.

Association football Team field sport

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.

Seymour Shaw Park is a football (soccer) stadium in Miranda, New South Wales, Australia. It is the current home ground of the Sutherland Sharks Football Club who play in the state league, the New South Wales Premier League.

In the NSWRL competition, the Cronulla Sutherland Sharks club used this ground as their home ground. The club entered the national competition in 1967, and held their first two seasons at this venue (in 1967 and 1968), before moving to Endeavour Field, where they have stayed ever since the move in 1969.

The 1967 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 60th season of Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, Australia's first. The introduction of the Cronulla-Sutherland and Penrith clubs saw a total of twelve teams from across the Sydney area compete for the J J Giltinan Shield and WD & HO Wills Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between South Sydney and Canterbury-Bankstown. This was also the first live televised broadcast of a football grand final of any code in Australia.

The 1968 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 61st season of professional rugby league football in Australia. Twelve teams, including six Sydney-based foundation teams and another six from around Sydney competed for the J J Giltinan Shield and the WD & HO Wills Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between South Sydney and Manly-Warringah.

Endeavour Field

Colloquially known as Shark Park during Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks matches, and known by its commercial name PointsBet Stadium. Shark Park is a rugby league stadium in the southern Sydney suburb of Woolooware, New South Wales, Australia. It is the home ground of the Cronulla-Sutherland Rugby League Club, which represents the Cronulla and Sutherland Shire areas in the National Rugby League competition. Unique among NRL clubs, the Sharks own and operate their home ground. The Sharkies Leagues Club sits beside the stadium.

In 2008, the Southern Sharks played at this ground, playing in the Jim Beam Cup, a lower tiered rugby league competition.

The Southern Sydney Sharks is a Rugby league team that competed in the 2008 Jim Beam Cup competition, this was their only season in the competition to date, with the team renaming themselves as the Southern Districts Rebels before folding the following season. The Sharks home ground was Sutherland Oval.

Sutherland Loftus United currently play here, in the Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League.

Sutherland Loftus United Rugby League Football Club is a rugby league football club that was formed in 1912 and competes in the Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League; the junior side of the club was formed in 1963 to coincide with the formation of the CSDJRFL. The club is based out of Sutherland where its headquarters are located and usually draws on the large majority of its junior players from that suburb and the surrounding area of Loftus.

Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League

The Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League is an amateur competition for rugby league clubs in and around the Sutherland Shire district of New South Wales, Australia.and then this one said Aqinas

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