Gold Coast Chargers

The Gold Coast Chargers were an Australian rugby league club from Gold Coast , Queensland . Between 1988 and 1998 the club appeared in Australia's top division, today's National Rugby League , initially under the names Gold Coast Tweed Giants and Gold Coast Seagulls . In the ten-year history of the club, there were almost no notable successes.

history

In 1988 Gold Coast was included in the expansion of the New South Wales Rugby League Premiership together with the Brisbane Broncos and Newcastle Knights in Australia's elite league . Since the Broncos did not accept a second club in Queensland , the new team initially appeared as the Gold Coast Tweed Giants and played their home games in Tweed Heads . In 1990 the name Gold Coast Seagulls was adopted, but initially kept the home in New South Wales . There was no sporting success at all, from 1991 to 1993 three Wooden Spoons were collected in a row. It wasn't until 1997 that the first and only qualification for the play-offs succeeded, meanwhile in the Australian Rugby League as Gold Coast Chargers . In 1998 the team was disbanded without replacement due to the downsizing of the National Rugby League . In 2007 the Gold Coast Titans became the heir to the Chargers .