Redfern All Blacks
| Club information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Redfern All Blacks Rugby League Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | RABs |
| Short name | All Blacks |
| Colours |
Black White |
| Founded | 1944 |
| Current details | |
| Ground(s) | |
| Chairman | Lisa Williams |
| Coach | Dean Widders |
| Captain | Dean Widders |
| Competition | Sydney Combined Competition, South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League |
| Records | |
| Premierships | 3 (1988, 2015, 2016) |
The Redfern All Blacks are an Indigenous Australian rugby league team based in Redfern, New South Wales, They are a part of the Sydney Combined Competition & South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League.
Redfern All Blacks is the oldest Indigenous Australian rugby league club in Australia. The club was officially founded by a group of non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people in 1944, but some accounts suggest the team goes back to around the time of the Great Depression. The club, often referred to as RABs or Redfern, was named after their black guernseys, part of the uniform provided by the South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League in their first playing season. At the time the club was formed, Aboriginal Australians were denied rights afforded to other Australians. Socially, culturally and politically, the club was important to many Indigenous Australias in Redfern at the time, and the club today is central to the history of Aboriginal Redfern.
In 1973, the Redfern All Blacks became one of the founding member clubs that formed the inaugural NSW Koori Knockout in which seven teams participated.
1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1992, 1993, 2015, 2016
Sydney Combined Competition: 2
2015, 2016
South Sydney Junior Rugby League 1988
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