Redcliffe Dolphins

Redcliffe Dolphins
Club information
Full nameRedcliffe District Rugby League Football Club Inc.
Nickname(s)Redcliffe Dolphins
Dolphins
Reddy
Colours  Red
  White
Founded27 February 1947; 77 years ago (27 February 1947)
Websiteredcliffedolphins.com.au
Current details
Ground(s)
CEOGrant Cleal
CoachScott Murray
ManagerMarc Hutchinson
CaptainDunamis Lui & Sheldon Pitama
CompetitionHostplus Cup, Brisbane Rugby League
2023 season6th
Current season
Records
Premierships2 (1965, 1994)
Runners-up6 (1973, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1987)
Minor premierships4 (1977, 1978, 1983, 1994)
Wooden spoons0
Premierships (2nd grade)7 (1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2018)
Runners-up (2nd grade)6 (1999, 2001, 2007, 2012, 2016, 2022)
Minor premierships (2nd grade)6 (1999, 2000, 2002, 2012, 2016, 2018)
Premierships (3rd grade)7 (1997, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016)
Runners-up (3rd grade)6 (1996, 2002, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2018)
Most capped270 – Troy Lindsay
Highest points scorer1211 – Liam Georgetown
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Redcliffe Dolphins are a Semi-professional rugby league club based in Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1947, they were accepted into the Brisbane Rugby League (BRL) premiership competition in 1960, and since 1996 have played in the Queensland Cup. The Redcliffe Dolphins thrived in the BRL. However, the 1988 admission of the Brisbane Broncos team in the New South Wales Rugby League competition caused the decline of the BRL.[1]

Although a separately licensed Dolphins (NRL) team currently competes in the fully professional national competition,[2] the Redcliffe squad continues to play in the Queensland competition. Through this NRL licence, the Dolphins organisation has become the only former BRL club to regain top-flight status after that competition became a second-tier league with the advent of the Brisbane Broncos in 1988.

  1. ^ Gorman, Joe (26 February 2017). "Redcliffe Dolphins: 70 years growing and with ambitious plans for future in NRL". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Dolphins granted licence to become NRL's 17th team in 2023". National Rugby League. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021.