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| Full name | Adelaide Rugby League Football Club | ||
| Nickname(s) | Rams, Adelaide | ||
| Colours | Primary: Blue Red Secondary: Yellow | ||
| Founded | 13 December 1995 (first season: 1997) | ||
| Exited | 1998 | ||
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| CEO | Tim Pickup (1995–96) Liz Dawson (1996–98) Michael O'Connor (1999) | ||
| Coach | Rod Reddy (1995–98) Dean Lance (1998) | ||
| Captain | Kerrod Walters (1997–98) | ||
| Competition | Super League and NRL | ||
| 1997 1998 | 9th of 10 17th of 20 | ||
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| Most capped | 41 – Kerrod Walters | ||
| Highest points scorer | 116 – Graham Appo | ||
The Adelaide Rams was an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Adelaide, South Australia. The team was formed in 1995 for the planned rebel Super League competition. The Rams lasted two seasons, the first in the Super League competition in 1997 and the second in the first season of the National Rugby League (NRL) in 1998. The Rams were not a successful club, winning only 13 out of 42 games. However crowd numbers in the first season were the fifth highest of any first-grade club that year, but dwindled to sixteenth in the second season. The Adelaide club was shut down at the end of the 1998 season as a result of poor on-field performances, dwindling crowd numbers, financial losses and a reduction in the number of teams in the NRL. They remain the only team from the state of South Australia to have participated in top-level rugby league in Australia.