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| Union | NSW Rugby [1] | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2007 (as Central Coast Rays) re-formed as North Harbour 2014, Sydney 2016. | |
| Disbanded | 2020 (competition disbanded) | |
| Location | Sydney, Australia | |
| Ground(s) | (Capacity: 5,000) Woollahra Oval | |
| Coach(es) | Chris Whitaker | |
| Captain(s) | Lalakai Foketi | |
| League(s) | National Rugby Championship | |
| 2019 | 8th | |
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Sydney, formerly the Sydney Rays, was an Australian rugby union team that competed in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). It was one of two sides from New South Wales that played in the final season of NRC in 2019; the other was the NSW Country Eagles.
The team played as the all-of-Sydney side in 2019 and wore the traditional blue and yellow colours of Sydney's representative rugby teams,[2] drawing on the metropolitan sides that represented the city for more than a century.[2][3] It adopted as its logo the anchor insignia of the Sydney Rugby Union, which dates back to at least 1970.[4]
Known as North Harbour Rays for the first two NRC seasons, Sydney Rays became the team name for the next three seasons during a consolidation of the number of NRC teams in the city from three in 2014 to eventually just one by 2018.[2] The team's name became Sydney in 2019 after New South Wales Rugby took control of the side and dropped the Rays moniker.
North Harbour Rays had been formed as a consortium of four Sydney clubs; Gordon, Manly, Northern Suburbs, and Warringah in 2014.[5] North Harbour took its identity from the Central Coast Rays side that played in the earlier national competition, the Australian Rugby Championship (ARC) in 2007. It had been backed by the same four Sydney clubs, along with the Central Coast Waves.[5]
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