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Endeavour Field
Endeavour Field, currently known as Ocean Protect Stadium under a naming rights agreement, is a rugby league stadium in the southern Sydney suburb of Woolooware, New South Wales, Australia. It is the home ground of the Cronulla Sharks Rugby League Club, which represents the Cronulla and Sutherland Shire areas in the National Rugby League competition. The Sharks are as of 2023 just one of two professional sporting clubs in Australia (excluding the Australian Football League's ownership of Docklands Stadium) that own and operate their home ground (alongside the Dolphins via their parent club Redcliffe who compete in the QRL with their home ground, Kayo Stadium) as well as Western United's future home ground Wyndham City Stadium. The Sharkies Leagues Club sits beside the stadium.
The stadium was built in 1966 and currently has a capacity of 20,000. The first match to be played at the ground came on the 30 June 1968 where Cronulla-Sutherland defeated Parramatta 10-7.
In 1991 the original western grandstand was demolished and the new Endeavour Stand was built in its place for the 1992 season.
The Cronulla-Sutherland Rugby League Club owns the stadium as well as the adjacent Leagues Club, one of only two NRL clubs to own its own stadium. State government authorities and local councils generally own sporting venues in Australia.
On 21 April 2006 the Federal Government announced a A$9.6 million grant to the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks to upgrade the stadium. The upgrade included a new covered stand to seat over 1,500 spectators at the southern end. The new stand was completed in time for the 2008 season.
Renovations were also planned for the ET Stand (originally the Endeavour Stand), named for Cronulla club legend Andrew Ettingshausen, and the Peter Burns Stand.
As of June 2020 the Leagues Club was undergoing redevelopment, with the Leagues Club closing its operations on 15 December 2019, with the facility originally due to reopen in early 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic impacting construction timelines at the Leagues Club site, the completion date has been delayed to early 2023, but Cronulla returned to playing home games at the stadium in 2022 with a temporary capacity of 12,000 in place until mid-2023. Further delays in construction resulted in a new completion date of mid-2024 announced in July 2023.
In the NRL competition, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks team has been playing at this venue since midway through the 1968 NSWRFL season, which was the club's second season into the competition (they had previously played at Sutherland Oval from 1967 until 1968).
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Endeavour Field
Endeavour Field, currently known as Ocean Protect Stadium under a naming rights agreement, is a rugby league stadium in the southern Sydney suburb of Woolooware, New South Wales, Australia. It is the home ground of the Cronulla Sharks Rugby League Club, which represents the Cronulla and Sutherland Shire areas in the National Rugby League competition. The Sharks are as of 2023 just one of two professional sporting clubs in Australia (excluding the Australian Football League's ownership of Docklands Stadium) that own and operate their home ground (alongside the Dolphins via their parent club Redcliffe who compete in the QRL with their home ground, Kayo Stadium) as well as Western United's future home ground Wyndham City Stadium. The Sharkies Leagues Club sits beside the stadium.
The stadium was built in 1966 and currently has a capacity of 20,000. The first match to be played at the ground came on the 30 June 1968 where Cronulla-Sutherland defeated Parramatta 10-7.
In 1991 the original western grandstand was demolished and the new Endeavour Stand was built in its place for the 1992 season.
The Cronulla-Sutherland Rugby League Club owns the stadium as well as the adjacent Leagues Club, one of only two NRL clubs to own its own stadium. State government authorities and local councils generally own sporting venues in Australia.
On 21 April 2006 the Federal Government announced a A$9.6 million grant to the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks to upgrade the stadium. The upgrade included a new covered stand to seat over 1,500 spectators at the southern end. The new stand was completed in time for the 2008 season.
Renovations were also planned for the ET Stand (originally the Endeavour Stand), named for Cronulla club legend Andrew Ettingshausen, and the Peter Burns Stand.
As of June 2020 the Leagues Club was undergoing redevelopment, with the Leagues Club closing its operations on 15 December 2019, with the facility originally due to reopen in early 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic impacting construction timelines at the Leagues Club site, the completion date has been delayed to early 2023, but Cronulla returned to playing home games at the stadium in 2022 with a temporary capacity of 12,000 in place until mid-2023. Further delays in construction resulted in a new completion date of mid-2024 announced in July 2023.
In the NRL competition, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks team has been playing at this venue since midway through the 1968 NSWRFL season, which was the club's second season into the competition (they had previously played at Sutherland Oval from 1967 until 1968).
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