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Sydney Rays

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Established
2007 (17 years old)

Sport
Rugby

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Concord Oval
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Sydney, Australia

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Australian National Rugby Championship

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12/10 Sydney Rays 33 - 57 Western Forc
12/10 Sydney Rays 33 - 57 Western Forc
05/10 University o 36 - 26 Sydney Rays
05/10 University o 36 - 26 Sydney Rays
29/09 Sydney Rays 26 - 40 Melbourne Ri

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The Sydney Rays is an Australian rugby union team that competes in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). The team is one of two sides from New South Wales in the competition; the other being the NSW Country Eagles.

The current Rays team in the NRC takes its identity from the Central Coast Rays side that played in the earlier national competition, the Australian Rugby Championship (ARC). The Rays drew players mainly from four Shute Shield clubs; Gordon, Manly, Northern Suburbs, and Warringah. The Central Coast Waves club was also aligned with the Rays for the ARC, but the competition was disbanded following the first season in 2007. After an absence of six years, the national competition was relaunched as the NRC in 2014.

A consortium of the same four Shute clubs from the ARC reformed the team as the North Harbour Rays in 2014 to play in the NRC. The team was renamed the Sydney Rays in 2016.

History

Rays played at Bluetongue Stadium in 2007.
In 2007, an attempt was made to form a third tier of rugby in Australia, similar to New Zealand's ITM Cup and South Africa's Currie Cup. The newly formed competition included eight teams and was called the Australian Rugby Championship. Three of those teams were based in New South Wales, including a Central Coast team.

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Concord Oval (also Waratah Stadium) is a rugby stadium in Concord, Australia, in the inner west of Sydney. It is currently used mostly for rugby union matches, and it was used for eight matches during the 1987 Rugby World Cup. It also hosts football matches. The stadium is able to hold 20,000 people and was opened in 1985.

It is the home ground of West Harbour RFC in the Shute Shield rugby union competition, and the Greater Sydney Rams in the National Rugby Championship. It is also the training and administration base for the Wests Tigers rugby league club. Football club Inter Lions SC also play games at the ground.

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