The Helensburgh Tigers are an Australian rugby league football team based in Helensburgh, a country town of the Illawarra region.

The Tigers are a foundation club of the Illawarra Rugby League, playing in the inaugural competition in 1911.

Scarborough fielded a reserves team which followed the Tigers between 1932 and 1935 before the Tigers dropped out of first grade (leaving Scarborough to field a reserves side behind Albion Park) in 1936.

Their colours, gold and black, are also similar to the old Balmain Tigers side.

The Helensburgh Tiger Lillies was founded in 2005 Helensburgh Tiger Lilies Women's Rugby League Club are an Australian professional Women's rugby league football team based in Helensburgh, New South Wales.