Cronulla Sutherland Sharks
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| Full name | Cronulla Sutherland District Rugby League Football Club Ltd |
| Nickname(s) | Sharkies |
| Website | sharks.com.au |
| Colours |
Sky blue White Black |
| Founded | 1963 as Cronulla-Caringbah 1967 in New South Wales Rugby League |
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| Coach | Shane Flanagan |
| Captain | Paul Gallen |
| Competition | National Rugby League |
| 2016 season | Premiers |
 Current season
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| Records | |
| Premierships | 1 (2016) |
| Runners-up | 3 (1973, 1978, 1997SL) |
| Minor premiership | 2 (1988, 1999) |
| Wooden spoons | 3 (1967, 1969, 2014) |
| Most capped | 328 - Andrew Ettingshausen |
| Highest points scorer | 1,255 - Steve Rogers |
The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league team based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby league competition. The Sharks, as they are commonly known, were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, predecessor of the Australian Rugby League and the current National Rugby League competition, in January 1967. The club competed in every premiership season since then and, during the Super League war, joined the rebel competition before continuing on in the re-united NRL Premiership. The Sharks have been in competition for 50 years, appearing in four grand finals, winning their first premiership in 2016 after defeating the Melbourne Storm at ANZ Stadium.
In 1967 the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL) added two new clubs to the competition, Cronulla-Sutherland and Penrith, the first to join the competition since Parramatta and Manly were admitted 20 years earlier in 1947.
Cronulla debuted in 1967 wearing a sky blue jersey adorned with a white V and red numbers on the back, at the then club home ground of Sutherland Oval, under the captaincy of multiple premiership-winner Monty Porter and the coaching of Ken Kearney. Cronulla earned immediate recognition when they beat Eastern Suburbs at the Sydney Sports Ground in their first match. They had only two more wins, against Norths and Parramatta, and finished last on the competition table.
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