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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Wikidata Q2573367, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Cooper Cronk (Wikipedia)
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finished his career with the Sydney Roosters
James Tedesco (Wikipedia)
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plays as a fullback for the Sydney Roosters
Todd Carney (Wikipedia)
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Sydney Roosters (with whom he won a Dally M Medal)
Joel Monaghan (Wikipedia)
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the Canberra Raiders and the Sydney Roosters
Anthony Minichiello (Wikipedia)
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he played his entire career with the Roosters
Boyd Cordner (Wikipedia)
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played as a second-row forward for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL)
Brett Papworth (Wikipedia)
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played first grade rugby league for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters
Adrian Morley (Wikipedia)
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He then played six seasons with Australian club Sydney Roosters
Daly Cherry-Evans (Wikipedia)
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Cherry-Evans played for the Sydney Roosters in 2026
Ron Coote (Wikipedia)
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His club career was played with South Sydney and the Eastern Suburbs Roosters
Craig Fitzgibbon (Wikipedia)
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as well as for the Sydney Roosters, with whom he won the 2002 NRL Premiership
Willie Mason (Wikipedia)
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the Sydney Roosters
Ryan Hall (Wikipedia)
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spent two seasons playing for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL
Dally Messenger (Wikipedia)
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Messenger played with the Eastern Suburbs club of the newly formed New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL)
Braith Anasta (Wikipedia)
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played in the NRL for the Canterbury Bulldogs, with whom he won the 2004 NRL Premiership, the Sydney Roosters and the Wests Tigers
Blake Ferguson (rugby league) (Wikipedia)
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He played for the National Rugby League team the Sydney Roosters that won the 2018 NRL Grand Final.
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