South Sydney Rabbitohs is a professional rugby league club which plays in the National Rugby League (NRL) and are based in Redfern, a suburb of inner-Sydney, New South Wales. South Sydney is one of two foundation clubs still present in the NRL, and therefore the oldest existing rugby-league football club in Australia. The team has been based at Redfern Oval since 1922.
South Sydney was one of the founding members of the New South Wales Rugby Football League, and are one of only two foundation clubs (with 1992 merger team Brisbane Broncos) to have survived to the present day. They are one of just two clubs (along with the Brisbane Broncos) to have appeared in every season at the top level since 1908. For this reason they are sometimes referred to as “the granddaddies of rugby league football” or “the original side.