Central Coast Bears

For NSWRL Club, see North Sydney Bears and Central Coast Centurions.

Central Coast Bears
Club information

Full name	Central Coast Bears Limited
Colours	Primary: Red Black Secondary: Grey
Founded	2009
Current details
Ground(s)	Bluetongue Stadium (20,059)
CEO(s)	Greg Florimo
Competition	National Rugby League

The Central Coast Bears are a proposed rugby league club based on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

They are trying to be included in an expanded National Rugby League competition.^[1]

The proposed team would play 11 games in Gosford and 1 game at North Sydney Oval against Manly in the annual Heritage Round. Prominent rugby league personalities who have publicly backed the club include Phil Gould, Andrew Johns and Peter Sterling while support has also come from as high up as Member for North Sydney Joe Hockey.

Catchment

Central Coast Bears Catchment

The Central Coast Bears catchment spans a vast and populated area from Mosman on Sydney's Lower North Shore to Lake Munmorah at the northern peak of the Central Coast of New South Wales. Within this catchment area there are close to 1,000,000 residents (in 2012, 609,533 were residents of the northern Sydney Local Government Areas of Hornsby, Hunters Hill, Ku-ring-gai, Lane Cove, Mosman, North Sydney, Ryde and Willoughby and 325,295 in the two Central Coast Local Government Areas of Gosford and Wyong).^[2] This represents approximately 4.1% of Australia's total population.^[3]

Junior Participation

The Central Coast Bears have 23 junior clubs in their catchment area. Within these 23 clubs there are over 7,000 players currently participating the Rugby League at various levels. There have been many famous NRL players that started out playing at a junior level within this catchment. Some notable names include Matt Orford, Akuila Uate, Chris Heighington, Mitchell Pearce and Kieran Foran.

Membership

The Central Coast Bears started a membership structure in 2009, setting themselves a target of 5,000 members by March 2011. This goal was reached three months early in December 2010 and as of November 2011 the Central Coast Bears have over 7,600 Financial members.

Notable Supporters

Joe Hockey

References

↑ Daniel Lane (2 June 2014). "Sydney Roosters' deal with Central Coast gives weight to Bears' NRL bid". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
↑ http://stat.abs.gov.au/itt/r.jsp?databyregion#/
↑ http://stat.abs.gov.au/itt/r.jsp?databyregion#/

External links

Expansion of the National Rugby League

Clubs	Brisbane Bombers Brothers NRL bid Central Coast Bears Central Queensland NRL bid Christchurch NRL bid Dunedin NRL bid Papua New Guinea Hunters Wellington NRL bid Western Corridor NRL bid West Coast Pirates

North Sydney Bears

Est. 1908 in Sydney, New South Wales

The Club	History (Northern Eagles) Records Players Honours Coaches

Home grounds	North Sydney Oval Central Coast Stadium

Culture	North Sydney Leagues Club

Important figures	Ken Irvine Greg Florimo

League	NSWRL ARL NRL New South Wales Cup

Premierships (2)	1921 1922

Seasons – 92	1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

Other competitions	Current S. G. Ball Cup Harold Matthews Cup Past Amco Cup Jersey Flegg Cup

Affiliations	South Sydney Rabbitohs Central Coast Bears Tweed Heads Seagulls Manly-Warringah/North Sydney District Rugby League North Sydney Bowling Club North Sydney Chess Club

Sporting teams based on the Central Coast

Basketball	Waratah League Central Coast Crusaders

Ice hockey	International Cup Central Coast Rhinos

Rugby league	NSW Cup Central Coast Centurions

Soccer	A-League Central Coast Mariners W-League Central Coast Mariners NPL NSW Central Coast Mariners Academy Central Coast (disbanded) Central Coast Football Avoca Berkeley Vale Budgewoi Doyalson-Wyee Gosford East Gosford Gosford City Gwandalan Kanwal-Warnervale Kariong Kariong United Killarney District Kincumber Mountains District Ourimbah Ourimbah United Southern & Ettalong Terrigal United The Entrance Bateau Bay Tuggerah Umina United Toukley-Gorokan Tuggerah United Umina United Woongarrah Woy Woy Wyoming Wyong

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