Gold Coast Vikings
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The Gold Coast Vikings were a rugby league
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 team that competed in the Queensland State League (from 1982) and the Queensland Cup (1998) competitions. Although originally a representative team, the Vikings became a feeder club for the Gold Coast Chargers
Gold Coast Chargers
Gold Coast were a professional Rugby league football club which played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1988 to 1994, the Australian Rugby League premiership from 1995 to 1997, and the National Rugby League premiership in 1998...

 National Rugby League
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand...

 team, and were withdrawn from the Queensland Cup when the Chargers were withdrawn from the NRL. The Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

 is now represented in the Queensland Cup by the Burleigh Bears
Burleigh Bears
The Burleigh Heads Rugby League Football Club are one of the oldest rugby league football clubs on the Gold Coast, Australia. Originally formed in 1934 playing out of Rudd Park, the club relocated to Pizzey Park in 1971, their current home ground....

and the Vikings are once still the Gold Coast representative rugby league team.

Queensland State League

  • 1995: Runners-up
  • 1994: Semi-finalists
  • 1993: Knocked out in preliminary rounds
  • 1992: 5th
  • 1991: 6th
  • 1988: 13th
  • 1987: 8th
  • 1986: 13th
  • 1985: 11th
  • 1984: 14th
  • 1983: 10th
  • 1982: 9th
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