<P> The Canterbury - Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury - Bankstown region of Sydney . They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions . </P> <P> The club was admitted to the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership, predecessor of the current NRL competition, in 1935 . They won their first premiership in their fourth year of competition with another soon after, and after spending the 1950s and most of the 1960s on the lower rungs went through a very strong period in the 1980s, winning four premierships in that decade . </P> <P> Known briefly in the 1990s as the Sydney Bulldogs, as a result of the Super League war the club competed in that competition in 1997 before changing their name to the geographically indistinct Bulldogs and continuing to play every season of the re-unified NRL, winning their most recent premiership in 2004 . In 2012 the Bulldogs won the minor premiership, but lost to the Melbourne Storm 14--4 in the Grand Final . In 2014 they were in the Grand Finals against Rabbitohs but lost 30 - 6 . </P> <P> In 1935--thirteen years after a meeting above "The Ideal Milk Bar" in Campsie led to the creation of the Canterbury - Bankstown Junior Rugby League--the Canterbury club was admitted into the elite New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership . It took the new club, nicknamed "Country Bumpkins" because of their rural recruiting and CB emblem, four years to win their first premiership in 1938 . The grand final - winning effort was repeated in 1942 before a 38 - year premiership drought . </P>

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