Shannon Gallant (born 26 February 1986) is an Australian

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer. He has played in the

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria (state), Victoria, the Austral ...

(NRL) for the

North Queensland Cowboys The North Queensland Cowboys is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Townsville, the largest city in North Queensland. They compete in Australia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL). Sinc ...

and the

Wests Tigers The Wests Tigers is an Australian professional rugby league football team, based in the Inner West of Sydney and South Western Sydney. The Tigers have competed in the National Rugby League (NRL) since being formed at the end of the 1999 N ...

. He primarily plays as a and is known for his speed and small stature.

Early life

Gallant played junior

Rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

with the

Narellan Jets Narellan Jets Rugby League Football Club is an Australian rugby league football club based in Narellan, New South Wales Narellan is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. Narellan is located 60 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central busine ...

and Campbelltown City Kangaroos, and joined the

Western Suburbs Magpies The Western Suburbs Magpies (legal name: Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Ltd) is an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as the club is commonly ...

when he was 13 years old.

Playing career

Gallant made his NRL debut for the

(a joint venture between Western Suburbs and Balmain) in 2007, and went on to play 12 games there in three seasons. Gallant joined the

for the 2010 and 2011 seasons after seeking a release from the

, claiming that there would be more first-grade opportunities for him at the North Queensland club. His contract with North Queensland ended in 2011, having played in nine NRL matches for the club. Gallant re-emerged in 2014 as a member of the Newtown

NSW Cup The NSW Cup, currently known as the Knock-On Effect NSW Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a rugby league competition for clubs in New South Wales. The competition has a history dating back to the NSWRFL's origins in 1908, starting off as a reserve ...

side, the reserve grade team for NRL club

Sydney Roosters Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club, known as the Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs. The club competes in the National Rugby Lea ...

. After playing one season with Newtown, Gallant spent the next two seasons back with Western Suburbs and finished as the leading point scorer in the 2016

Ron Massey Cup The Ron Massey Cup (formerly known as the Bundaberg Red Cup and Jim Beam Cup) is a semi-professional development level rugby league competition in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, run jointly by the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) and the ...

with 228 points. In 2017, Gallant left Wests to join the

in the local Group 6 competition. In 2018, Gallant joined

Sydney Shield The Sydney Shield is a rugby league football competition played in Sydney, New South Wales. The competition is administered by the New South Wales Rugby League. Clubs Ten teams will compete in the 2025 Sydney Shield. The fixture list is availabl ...

side the

East Campbelltown Eagles East Campbelltown Eagles are an Australian Junior Rugby League Club that also supports a semi-professional rugby league team. The team previously competed in the Western Suburbs 1st Grade competition, Canterbury 1st Grade competition, Jim Beam C ...

. Gallant went on to win the Sydney Shield with East Campbelltown, his first premiership victory in his 16-year playing career.

Career highlights

*''First Grade Debut:'' 2007 – Round 19, Wests Tigers v

New Zealand Warriors The Warriors are a professional rugby league football club based in Auckland, New Zealand that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership and is the League's only team from outside Australia. They were formed in 1995 as the Aucklan ...

Campbelltown Stadium Campbelltown Sports Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Leumeah, a suburb in South Western Sydney, Australia, owned by Campbelltown City Council. Formerly known as Orana Park and Campbelltown Sports Ground, it is currently the home ground ...

, 22 July *''Sydney Shield:'' 2018 premiership winner with East Campbelltown

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gallant, Shannon 1986 births Australian rugby league players Wests Tigers players Mackay Cutters players North Queensland Cowboys players Rugby league fullbacks Western Suburbs Magpies NSW Cup players Newtown Jets NSW Cup players Living people Rugby league players from Sydney 21st-century Australian sportsmen