Wests Tigers
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| Club information | |
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| Full name | Wests Tigers Rugby League Football Club |
| Website | weststigers.com.au |
| Colours |
White Gold Black |
| Founded | 27 July 1999 |
| Current details | |
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| CEO | Justin Pascoe |
| Coach | Jason Taylor |
| Captain | Aaron Woods |
| Competition | National Rugby League |
| 2016 Season | 9th |
 Current season
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| Records | |
| Premierships | 1 (2005) |
| Runners-up | None |
| Minor premiership | None |
| Wooden spoons | None |
| Most capped | 247 - Robbie Farah |
| Highest points scorer | 1118 - Benji Marshall |
The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's Western Suburbs. They have competed in the National Rugby League since they were formed at the end of the 1999 NRL season as a joint-venture club between the Balmain Tigers and the Western Suburbs Magpies.
The Wests Tigers started playing in the 2000 NRL season and won their maiden premiership in 2005. It is one of only two clubs (the other being the Newcastle Knights) that has never lost a Grand Final in which it has participated. The club also won the World Sevens in 2004.
The Wests Tigers have three home grounds: Leichhardt Oval (the home ground of Balmain), Campbelltown Stadium (the home ground of Western Suburbs) and ANZ Stadium as of 2014. They are currently coached by Jason Taylor and captained by Aaron Woods. The club CEO is Justin Pascoe and the general manager is Phil Moss.
In Australia, the game of rugby league began in 1908; the New South Wales Rugby League premiership (NSWRL) had nine teams from the Sydney area. Two of those teams were clubs based in Balmain and the Western Suburbs who happened to meet each other in round 1 of 1908. Balmain won, 24 to 0. The Balmain club, who later adopted a Tiger as their emblem, in their tenure in the NSWRL won eleven premierships in twenty grand finals and was one of the forces in the NSWRL competition. However their last premiership success was in 1969 and in the 1990s with many new clubs being established, there was pressure on clubs to perform to survive in the first grade competition in Australia. The Wests Tigers got their name from their suburb and from their logo.
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