The Sydney Roosters are a professional rugby league club based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, one of the founding clubs of the New South Wales Rugby League competition in 1908 (originally as Eastern Suburbs) and among the most successful clubs in the National Rugby League's history, having won multiple premiership titles including back-to-back championships in 2018 and 2019. Playing in red, white and blue, the club is based at the Sydney Cricket Ground precinct and Allianz Stadium in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, and its long history includes some of rugby league's most celebrated players across generations of Australian premiership competition.
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The Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club (ESDRLFC) was formed on 24 January 1908 at a meeting at the Paddington Town Hall in Sydney after it was decided that the district should enter a team in the newly formed New South Wales Rugby Football League.
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Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club, trading as the Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.
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