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The North Sydney Bears are an Australian rugby league football club based in North Sydney, New South Wales. They currently compete in the New South Wales Cup, having exited the top-level National Rugby League competition after the 1999 NRL season. The Bears are based on Sydney's Lower North Shore, and have played at North Sydney Oval since 1910. There is currently a bid supporting a resurrection of the club in the NRL as the Central Coast Bears, based in Gosford, New South Wales.

The club was established in 1908, making it one of the original founding members of the New South Wales Rugby Football League, and one of Australia's first rugby league football clubs. North Sydney continued competing with some success in the first half of the 20th century in the NSWRL, and through the ARL and NRL premierships until they merged with Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles to form the Northern Eagles for the 2000 season. The merged club lasted only until 2002 when it split again, with the Bears returning, but this time in the NSWRL competition the second-tier rugby league competition, where they continue to play today.

North Sydney are currently in partnerships with the Rabbitohs, taking the place of Souths reserve grade. Up until the end of season 2009, Souths were coached by the Bears' record-breaking top points scorer, Jason Taylor.

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The Central Coast Bears :
Position	Player
FB	Brian Carlson
WG	Ken Irvine
CE	Jimmy Devereux
CE	Greg Florimo
WG	Harold Horder
FE	Tim Pickup
HB	Duncan Thompson
PR	Gary Larson
HK	Ross Warner
PR	Billy Wilson
SR	David Fairleigh
SR	Mark Graham
LK	Peter Diversi
Bench	Sid Deane
Bench	Ken McCaffery
Bench	Billy Moore
Bench	John Gray
Coach	Chris McKivat

Rugby League in New South Wales

Federations		New South Wales Rugby League * Country Rugby League
Representative Teams		New South Wales Origin * City Origin * Country Origin
NSWRL competitions		Open Age comps: New South Wales Cup * Bundaberg Red Cup * Underage Comps: S.G. Ball Cup (U18's) * Harold Matthews Cup (U16's) * Arrive Alive Cup (High School) * Tertiary Rugby League (University)
NSWRL defunct competitions		NSWRL Premiership * Jersey Flegg Cup * Amco Cup
CRL competitions		Group Competitions: 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 * 11 * 12 * 13 * 14 * 15 * 16 * 17 * 18 * 19 * 20 * 21 Newcastle Rugby League * Illawarra Rugby League * Central Coast Rugby League * Castlereagh Cup * Woodbridge Cup * Mid-West Cup Outback Rugby League * Sunraysia-Riverlands Rugby League * North-West Plains Cup
NSW Womens RL		Sydney Metropolitan Womens Rugby League
NRL / NYC Teams:		Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs * Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks * Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles * Newcastle Knights * Parramatta Eels * Penrith Panthers * St. George Illawarra Dragons * South Sydney Rabbitohs * Sydney Roosters * Wests Tigers
NSW Cup Teams:		Auckland Vulcans * Balmain-Ryde Eastwood Tigers * Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs * Central Coast Centurions * Cronulla-Sutherland Cobras * Melbourne Storm * Newtown Jets * North Sydney Bears * Shellharbour City Dragons * Wentworthville Magpies * Western Suburbs Magpies * Windsor Wolves
Bundaberg Red Cup Teams:		Belrose Eagles * Cabramatta Two-Blues * Campbelltown Eagles * Chester Hill Rhinos * Southern Sharks * Erina Eagles * Mt Pritchard Mounties * Shellharbour City Marlins * Sydney Bulls * WA Reds * Wentworthville Magpies * Windsor Wolves