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The South Sydney Rabbitohs are one of the most historic Rugby League club in Australia having first been formed in 1908.

The Bunnies have won all that there is to win at the club level and are easy to recognise whenever they take to the first thanks to their cardinal red and myrtle green playing strip.

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Stadium

The club historic ground is the Redfern Oval and it is still at that ground where the clubs administration is headquartered and it is there where the club still train.

A lot of their junior and reserve teams also play out of their former ground with the first team predominantly playing out of the stunning Stadium Australia.

That stadium was made famous by been the host stadium for the Sydney Olympics but since then it has become the home of Rugby League in Sydney with many teams playing home matches there, the Grand Final been hosted there whilst the New South Wales Blue State of Origin team also call it home.

Location

The clubs historic home turf is the Redfern suburb of Sydney in the Australian state of New South Wales.

Redfern is an inner-city suburb been only 3km south of the Sydney CBD but in the modern era, the cub have fans based all of the city with matches predominantly playing in the Olympic Park suburb around 8 miles west of the CBD.

About

South Sydney are one of the most historic clubs in Australia and they are also one of the most successful with numerous Grand Final wins and Minor Premierships.

Although the club are one of just 2 foundation clubs to still play in the NRL top flight, they did spend some time out of the top tier due to financial reasons.

History

The South Sydney District Rugby League Football Club was formed all of the way back in January 1997 after a meeting at Redfern Town Hall, with the club joining the newly formed New South Wales Rugby League competition.

South’s first game saw them defeat North Sydney by 11 points to 7 at Birchgrove Oval in April 1908.

The club enjoyed early success by not only wining the first ever title but they would also go onto defend it and win again in 1908.

More success would come in 1914 and 1918 and then they would dominate for much of the 1920 with the club winning every title between 1925-1932, aside from 1930.

The 1940 was a decade of struggle for the club but they soon turned things around and the 1950’s would go on to be known as the golden era for the Rabbits.

Between 1950-1955 they would win 5 Premiership titles with only a loss in the 1952 Grand Final against Western Suburbs breaking that run.

Those teams were full of superstars of the days including the iconic Clive Churchill but as those players aged and left the club for one reason or another, the club form deteriorated leaving them with a run of failing to reach the play-offs between 1958-64.

In 1965, they not only turned that around but they also made the Grand Final but they would lose to St George, who were on a run of 9 straight titles.

The club would enjoy another long run of Grand Final between 1967-1971, with the club winning 4 of them.

Unfortunately, that was the start of off of the field issues for the club as the 1970’s saw the club lose many star names due to financial problems and whist they did turn that around by the end of the decade to finish as Minor Premiership winner sin 1989, the financial woes continued into the 1990’s.

The club struggle don for the first part of the 90’s but with their financial problems worsening and impacted hard by the Super League wars, the club were exploded from the new NRL competition in 2000 as the league contracted.

That led to a number of legal battle with both the NRL and News Limited and thankfully the Federal Court undid the damage of the Murdoch’s and the Rabbits were readmitted into the NRL.

Upon there return to the top flight, the club struggled and picked up 3 wooden spoon in the next 5 seasons.

In 2006 the club were taken over by a new consortium with Hollywood A lister Russell Crowe been amongst the names to take ownership.

That helped the club to attract big stars once again including the likes of Greg Inglis and the Burgess Brothers.

That then in turn helped them to reach the play-offs semi-finals for the first time since 1972 in 2007 but they wouldn’t reach the play-offs once again until 2012 under the stewardship of Michael Maguire.

In 2014, the club would once again pick up a title win with a win over Canterbury in the final in a match made famous by Sam Burgess playing much of it with a broken cheek bone.

The club would struggle over the next few seasons with 2 12th place finishers in 2016 and 17 before returning the play offs in 2018.

That run was ended by the Roosters in what was the last game to be played at the Sydney Football Stadium with 45,000 fans watching Souths lose 12-4.

The club would return to the Grand Final in 2021 put they would lose by just 2 points to Penrith.

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