Club Information

The Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. They compete in Australasia’s premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. Playing in red and blue, the Knights joined the top tier competition in 1988; 79 years after the previous Newcastle based team, the Newcastle Rebels, had departed the Sydney competition with the formation of a separate league competition based in the Newcastle region.

The club has won two premierships over its history (1997 and 2001) and produced such players as Andrew Johns, Matthew Gidley and Paul Harragon. Their home ground is Hunter Stadium, which has recently been redeveloped and now competes on an international level with a capacity of 33,000.

In March 2011, the Hunter Sports Group successfully took ownership of the Newcastle Knights rugby league club by a landslide vote, voted on by the eligible members of the Knights. In a major coup for the club, the Hunter Sports Group signed Wayne Bennett to a four-year coaching contract, which commenced in 2012.

Through the uncompromising toughness and never-say-die attitude of the Knights players in the early years to the outstanding skill of more recent times, an expectation of success has evolved. The results are something the club's pioneers could only have dreamt about.

Newcastle Knights Limited (ABN 86 003 363 228)

Patron: The Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon

Life Members:

• Neville Allan
• Brian Jack
• Wal Bentley (deceased)
• Andrew Johns
• Danny Buderus
• Matthew Johns
• Tony Butterfield
• Kevin Lynch
• Gerry Edser
• Leigh Maughan
• Max Fox (deceased)
• Robbie O'Davis
• Matthew Gidley
• Bill Peden
• Marc Glanville
• John Shoobridge
• Michael Hagan
• Kevin Smith (deceased)
• Neil Halpin
• Sam Stewart
• Bob Hancock
• David Turrell
• Graham Hardes (deceased)
• Brian Warby
• Paul Harragon
• Mark Wright
• Michael Hill
• Steve Simpson
• Laurie Clifton