38 Facts About Penrith Panthers

Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith that competes in the NRL.

Penrith Panthers were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League competition in 1967.

Penrith Panthers struggled for almost twenty years before finally reaching their first finals series.

Former Penrith Panthers premiership winning head coach Phil Gould was the club's general manager but departed in 2019.

Varied Penrith Panthers teams had played for many years between 1912 and 1966 in the Western Districts League under the control of the Western Suburbs RLFC.

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Penrith Panthers had trouble attracting the sort of experienced players they knew they needed, and although they always had good junior talent coming through, they did not get the on-field leadership they needed.

Penrith Panthers needed to wait until they could develop their own 'stars'.

Penrith Panthers developed a strong team in the late 80s and started to build momentum.

Penrith Panthers were coached by former player and club captain Royce Simmons starting with the last six games in 1994 until the end of 2001.

Penrith Panthers finished as Minor Premiers after convincingly accounting for the Parramatta Eels in the last round of competition.

Penrith Panthers did however rally after that loss and qualified for the NRL semi-final series by finishing fourth and defeating St George in the first week of the semi-finals before being knocked out by Canterbury-Bankstown in the Grand Final qualifier two weeks later.

The 2007 season turned out to be a poor one for the Penrith Panthers, they won only eight games, finished last and "won" the wooden-spoon for the second time in six years after losing to the New Zealand Warriors in the last round of the regular season competition.

In 2008, Penrith Panthers improved four spots on their 2007 performance by finishing in 12th spot out of 16 teams in the NRL competition with 10 wins, one draw and 13 losses.

In 2010, Penrith Panthers had an excellent season, finishing in 2nd place in the ladder out of the 16 teams, with 16 wins and 9 losses.

In 2011, following another terrible start to the season, the Penrith Panthers board decided to sever ties with coach Matthew Elliot at season's end.

However, after a year with mixed results, Penrith Panthers finished in tenth position, one win out of the top eight.

Penrith Panthers defeated bottom placed Newcastle in the final game of the season to avoid the wooden spoon.

Penrith Panthers started the season with 7 wins and 9 losses, they then finished the season winning 7 from 8 games to finish in 6th.

In 2017, Penrith Panthers finished 7th on the NRL Premiership table and qualified for the finals.

In 2018, Penrith Panthers finished 5th on the table at the end of the regular season during which coach Anthony Griffin was sacked four weeks before the finals series after falling out with Phil Gould.

In week one of the finals, Penrith Panthers easily accounted for the New Zealand Warriors to set up a clash with Cronulla.

Penrith Panthers got off to a bad start with the club winning only 2 of their first 10 matches leaving the team bottom of the table.

Penrith Panthers would go on to reach the 2020 NRL Grand Final after going 17 games unbeaten throughout the year and in the finals.

The win meant that Penrith Panthers had their best start to a season since 1997 when they won their opening four games in that year.

Penrith Panthers became the first team to win 20 straight regular season games.

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Penrith Panthers met South Sydney in the 2021 NRL Grand Final and looked to redeem their loss in the previous years' Grand Final.

The following week, it was announced that the Penrith Panthers players had been cleared of any wrongdoing in relation to the broken trophy.

Penrith Panthers started the 2022 NRL season in strong fashion winning their opening eight matches in a row.

In 1974 Penrith Panthers changed their strip to a jerseys with brown and white vertical bars and again in 1991 they changed the colours to Black with White, Red, Yellow and Green stripes until 1997 when Super League had all new jerseys made by Nike.

Just before Christmas 2007 the Penrith Panthers launched a new 'home' jersey which is predominantly black with light grey claw marks on either side at the front and back.

For Season 2010, the Penrith Panthers have launched a new predominantly teal away jersey, this teal jersey connect with the away jersey from their 03 and 04 season's.

In late October, 2010, the Penrith Panthers announced that rust would no longer be a secondary colour for the club.

Penrith Panthers unveiled a 50th anniversary logo to be used in 2016.

In 2017, Penrith Panthers decided to revert to their Liquorice Allsorts jersey from The 1990s.

The Penrith Panthers have now completely ditched teal and brought back the 'Liquorice Allsorts' colour scheme that has already featured in their jerseys since 2017.

In 2021, Penrith Panthers won both regular season games against Parramatta, the first being a 1-point thriller at Penrith Panthers.

Since Penrith Panthers entered the competition in 1967, the two clubs have only met in finals five times.

On 25 June 2016, the Penrith Panthers inducted the four inaugural members of its Hall of Fame - Grahame Moran, Royce Simmons, Greg Alexander, and Craig Gower.