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| Founded | 1863 | |
| Location | Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales | |
| Ground(s) | Sydney University Football Ground[1] (Capacity: 2,500[2]) | |
| President | David Lyons | |
| Director of Rugby | Nick Ryan | |
| Coach(es) | Todd Louden | |
| Captain(s) | Jack McCalman, Ciaran Loh | |
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| 2024 | 7th of 12 | |
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The Sydney University Football Club, founded in 1863, is the oldest club now playing rugby union in Australia,[3] although this date is disputed by historian Tom Hickie who argues that it was 1865.[4]
Sydney Uni was a member of the inaugural Sydney club competition in 1874,[citation needed] along with the Balmain Rugby Union Football Club, Newington College and The King's School. The club currently competes in the Shute Shield competition and has the most senior premiership titles of all Sydney clubs.[citation needed]
After playing home games at the Sydney University Oval No.1 for 153 years, the club moved to the redeveloped Oval No.2 for the 2016 season. Sydney Uni Sport completed the building of a new training facility and grandstand at that ground accommodating 1,200 spectators.[1]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
sufc-2015was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Sydney University Football Ground". austadiums.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022.
- ^ Football in Australia – Australia's Culture Portal Archived 2009-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hickie, Thomas V., A Sense of Union. The History of the Sydney University Football Club, 1998, ISBN 0949853623