History
After originally being formed as a rugby union club in the 1890s, the team, along with other north coast New South Wales clubs, switched to the professional rugby league code.
With legendary former Test halfback Barry Muir as captain-coach, Tweed Seagulls failed to win a game in 1971 in the Group 18 Gold Coast competition. However the following year In the Seagulls reached the grand final under Tom Searle, (father of Michael Searle), only to beaten by a Gold Coast Tigers side which included 17-year-old Steve Rogers in the centres.
In 1990 the Seagulls Leagues club bought out the license for the Gold Coast - Tweed Giants, and renamed the club the Gold Coast Seagulls, although it continued to play its home games in the New South Wales town of Tweed Heads. In 1995 the club sold its license to businessmen Jeff Muller, who changed the club's name to Gold Coast Gladiators.
Prior to 2005, the team played in the Gold Coast - Group 18 competition; however, at the end of 2004 this was disbanded and split, with the Queensland-based clubs playing in a dedicated Gold Coast competition and the remainder playing in an expanded Group 1 competition The Tweed Heads Seagulls was formed in 1909 and is one of the oldest Rugby league clubs in Australia. Tweed applied for the 2002 Queensland Cup but were unsuccessful. Following the exit of the Logan City Scorpions at the end of 2002, Tweed re-applied, successfully, for the 2003 competition.
In 2006 Tweed Heads successfully entered the FOGS Cup and FOGS Colts Challenge
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