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| Former names | Pointsbet Stadium Southern Cross Group Stadium Remondis Stadium Toyota Park Ronson Field Caltex Field Endeavour Field |
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| Location | Woolooware, New South Wales |
| Coordinates | 34°2′19″S151°8′27″E / 34.03861°S 151.14083°E /-34.03861; 151.14083 |
| Owner | Cronulla-Sutherland Rugby League Club |
| Operator | Cronulla-Sutherland Rugby League Football Club |
| Capacity | 12,000[1] (capacity reduced due to redevelopment) 15,000[2] (2023–present) 22,000 (1968–2019) |
| Record attendance | 22,302 – Sharks vsSt George Illawarra, 2004 |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | 1960 |
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| Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks (NRL) (1968–2019, 2022–present) Olympic Sharks (NSL) (2001–2003) | |
Endeavour Field, known colloquially asShark Park orSharks Stadium,[3][4][5] is arugby league stadium in the southernSydney suburb ofWoolooware, New South Wales, Australia. It is the home ground of the Cronulla-Sutherland Rugby League Club, which represents theCronulla andSutherland Shire areas in theNational Rugby League competition. The Sharks are as of 2023 just one of two professional sporting clubs in Australia (excluding theAustralian Football League's ownership ofDocklands Stadium) that own and operate their home ground (alongside theDolphins via their parent clubRedcliffe who compete in theQRL with their home ground,Kayo Stadium) as well asWestern United's future home groundWyndham City Stadium. TheSharkies Leagues Club sits beside the stadium.
The stadium was built in 1966 and currently has a capacity of 20,000.[4]
In 1991 the original western grandstand was demolished and the new Endeavour Stand was built in its place for the 1992 season.[6]
TheCronulla-Sutherland Rugby League Club owns the stadium as well as the adjacent Leagues Club, one of only twoNRL 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 aA$9.6 million grant to the Cronulla 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 are also planned for the ET Stand (originally the Endeavour Stand), named for Cronulla club legend and games record holderAndrew Ettingshausen, and the Peter Burns Stand.
As of June 2020 the Leagues Club has been undergoing redevelopment, with the Leagues Club closing its operations on 15 December 2019,[7] with the facility originally due to reopen in early 2022.[8] Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic impacting construction timelines at the Leagues Club site, the completion date has been delayed to early 2023,[9] but Cronulla returned to playing home games at the stadium in 2022 with a temporary capacity of 12,000 in place until mid-2023.[10] Further delays in construction resulted in a new completion date of mid-2024 announced in July 2023.[11]
In theNRL competition, theCronulla-Sutherland Sharks team has been playing at this venue since midway through the1968 NSWRFL season,[12] which was the club's second season into the competition (they had previously played atSutherland Oval from 1967 until 1968).
High turnout in crowd numbers are usual when Cronulla play local-derby rivals, theSt George Illawarra Dragons. The ground attendance record is 22,302, which was set when Cronulla-Sutherland took on St George in May 2004.
In late 2017, the ground hosted the2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup tournament. It played host to the group stages and semi-finals matches.
During the2019 NRL season, it was announced that the ground and the Cronulla leagues club would be undergoing renovations and as a result Cronulla revealed that for the next two years that they would be playing home matches away from their spiritual home withKogarah Oval,WIN Stadium and the newWestern Sydney Stadium as new temporary home grounds.[13][14]
TheSydney Olympic FC club played at the ground for two seasons, from 2001 until 2003, in the formerNational Soccer League.
The ground has had numerous naming rights deals. Names of this ground over the years have been:
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