Australian Shute Shield

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Established
1923 (103 years old)

First Recorded Event
2013-04-06

Current Season
2026

Current Round
9

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Rugby

Location
Australia

Gender
Male

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		Upcoming
20 Jun 26	WarringaWarringah	5:05am	ManlyManly
20 Jun 26	Western Western Sydney Two Blues	5:05am	NorthernNorthern Suburbs
20 Jun 26	GordonGordon	5:05am	Eastern Eastern Suburbs
20 Jun 26	Sydney USydney University	5:05am	West HarWest Harbour
20 Jun 26	RandwickRandwick	5:05am	EastwoodEastwood
20 Jun 26	HunterHunter	5:05am	SouthernSouthern Districts
27 Jun 26	Eastern Eastern Suburbs	5:05am	RandwickRandwick
27 Jun 26	GordonGordon	5:05am	Western Western Sydney Two Blues
27 Jun 26	NorthernNorthern Suburbs	5:05am	Sydney USydney University
27 Jun 26	SouthernSouthern Districts	5:05am	EastwoodEastwood

		Results
13 Jun 26	West HarbWest Harbour	25 - 59	GordonGordon
13 Jun 26	Western SWestern Sydney Two Blues	26 - 64	WarringahWarringah
13 Jun 26	Northern Northern Suburbs	22 - 19	HunterHunter
13 Jun 26	ManlyManly	21 - 31	RandwickRandwick
13 Jun 26	EastwoodEastwood	42 - 39	Sydney UnSydney University
13 Jun 26	Eastern SEastern Suburbs	101 - 5	Southern Southern Districts
30 May 26	GordonGordon	29 - 19	Northern Northern Suburbs
30 May 26	EastwoodEastwood	27 - 24	WarringahWarringah
30 May 26	RandwickRandwick	35 - 19	West HarbWest Harbour
30 May 26	Western SWestern Sydney Two Blues	31 - 29	HunterHunter

Description

The Shute Shield, known as the Charter Hall Shute Shield, is a semi-professional rugby union competition in Sydney, Australia. It is the premier club competition in New South Wales. The Shute Shield is awarded to the winning team from the Sydney premiership grand final held at the end of the club rugby season.

Club-based rugby football began some time before 1865. The Sydney University Football Club began in 1863 (although this date is questioned by some historians) and is the oldest existing football club outside the British Isles. The first recorded rugby season in Australia was in 1865 with Sydney University, Sydney Football Club and the Australian Club reported as playing games.

On 24 June 1874, a meeting was held between ten prominent football clubs to create a governing body to administer the game within New South Wales. The Southern Rugby Football Union was formed. The first task of the Union was to decide on a set of rules for all clubs to adhere to. Clubs were given "senior" or "junior" status which could change from season to season. Although a governing body had now been formed, there was no centrally controlled competition until many years later.

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