Super Rugby
Waratahs commit to Allianz Stadium
ESPN Staff
January 30, 2015
New South Wales Waratahs have made a long-term deal to play at Aliianz Stadium © Getty Images
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The Waratahs will play all their regular season, quarter-final and semi-final matches at Allianz Stadium from 2016, rejecting ANZ Stadium, after New South Wales Rugby Union and Waratahs Rugby officials signed an agreement with the Sydney Cricket and Sport Ground Trust

The Waratahs have in recent seasons played two games a year at ANZ Stadium in Homebush - home fixtures against the Brumbies and Queensland Reds - and last season they also played the grand final at the former Olympic venue, but the union board said in a statement that the new deal would provide "significant financial investment which will invigorate rugby across all levels of the game, right across the state".

"Not only will this investment help grow the grassroots game," the union said in their statement, "it will help ensure that the NSW Waratahs are best placed to achieve the goal of becoming a sustainable and dominant long-term force in Super Rugby."

Union chairman Nick Farr-Jones said "NSW Rugby and the NSW Waratahs have a long history of playing at Moore Park, and Allianz Stadium is a real landmark for rugby in this state" while Waratahs Rugby chairman Roger Davis said the deal would "benefit rugby broadly, and ensure that the NSW Waratahs continue with their high level of success on and off the field".

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