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Full name | Newcastle Rugby League Football Club | ||
Nickname(s) | Novocastrians | ||
Colours | Primary: Blue Red Secondary: White | ||
Founded | 1987 | ||
Website | newcastleknights.com.au | ||
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CEO | Phil Gardner | ||
Coach | Adam O'Brien | ||
Captain | Kalyn Ponga | ||
Competition | National Rugby League | ||
2024 season NRL | 8th | ||
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Premierships | 2 (1997, 2001) | ||
Runners-up | 0 | ||
Wooden spoons | 4 (2005, 2015, 2016, 2017) | ||
Most capped | 257 – Danny Buderus | ||
Highest try scorer | 109 – Akuila Uate | ||
Highest points scorer | 2,176 – Andrew Johns |
The Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league team based in Newcastle, New South Wales that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. Playing in red and blue, the Knights joined the top-tier competition in 1988, 79 years after the previous Newcastle based team, the Newcastle Rebels had departed the Sydney competition with the formation of a separate league competition based in the Newcastle region.
The club has won the premiership twice (1997 and 2001) and is one of only two clubs (the other being the Wests Tigers) that has never lost a grand final in which it has participated.[1] Notable players include: Paul Harragon, Robbie O'Davis, Danny Buderus and rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns. The team's home ground is McDonald Jones Stadium.