Brisbane City (rugby union)

Brisbane City
Founded2014
Disbanded2020 (competition disbanded)
LocationBrisbane, Australia
Ground(s)
GPS Rugby Club(Capacity: 3,000)
Bond University(Capacity: 6,000)
Ballymore(Capacity: 18,000)
Easts Rugby Club(Capacity: 3,000)
Coach(es)Jim McKay
Captain(s)Fraser McReight
League(s)National Rugby Championship
20194th
1st kit
2nd kit

Brisbane City is an Australian rugby union football team based in Brisbane that competed in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). The team is one of two Queensland sides in the competition, the other being Queensland Country.[1] Brisbane City is organised and managed by the Queensland Rugby Union (QRU), with the coaching and training programs utilised by the Queensland Reds being extended to players joining the team from the Reds and Queensland Premier Rugby teams.[1][2][3]

The Brisbane City team in the NRC takes its identity from the metropolitan rugby team that has represented Brisbane for more than a century.[4] The representative team's colours and a similar logo were inherited for the NRC. The Brisbane City uniform is yellow and blue, with a crest of the City Hall logo within Queensland Rugby's traditional 'Q' on the jersey's chest.[1]

The NRC was launched in 2014, reinstating the national competition after the Australian Rugby Championship (ARC) was discontinued following the first season in 2007.[5] The Brisbane City NRC team utilises existing QRU staffing roles and infrastructure, with the team's home ground and training base located at QRU's headquarters at Ballymore.[1][2][3]

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  2. ^ a b QRU Annual Report 2013, p. 5.
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