North Gambier Football Club

The North Gambier Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Western Border Football League. Since the creation of this league, North Gambier have won eight senior premierships.

North Gambier
Names
Full nameNorth Gambier Football Club
Nickname(s)Tigers
Club details
Founded1926
Colours  Black   Yellow
CompetitionWestern Border Football League
ChairmanTony Kelly[1]
CoachJustin McConnell
Premierships17
Ground(s)Vansittart Park, Mt Gambier
Other information
Official websitewww.northgambierfc.vcfl.com.au
Guernsey:

History

The North Gambier Football Club was first created (and shortly known as the North Mount Gambier Football Club) in 1926 with the establishment of the South Eastern Football Association which included Narracoorte, Penola, and South Mount Gambier.[2] During North Gambier's twelve seasons in this league it played in four grand finals, winning those of 1928 and 1929. In 1934, the club threatened to withdraw from the league unless all the finals matches for the year were played at North Gambier.[3] This followed none of the finals matches being played at Mount Gambier during the 1933 finals. Between 1938 and 1945 the club went into recess, partly due to the outbreak of WWII.

In 1946, North Gambier were a founding club of the Mount Gambier & District Football League. The club won three back-to-back premierships in 1946-7-8 before the league was renamed the South-East & Border Football League in 1950.[4] North Gambier went on to win a further the back-to-back premierships in this league (1960-1-2).

In 1964, after almost a decade of discussions, the Western District Football League in Victoria and the South-East & Border Football League in South Australia merged to form the Western Border Football League. North Gambier were one of the twelve establishing teams. The club has remained in this league, winning a total of seven premierships across six decades. This included the very first season of the league, beating Heywood by 19 points in 1964.[5]

Premierships
Vansittart Park, home of the North Gambier Football Club
LeagueTotal flagsPremiership years
South Eastern Football Association
2
1928, 1929
Mount Gambier & District Football League
3
1946, 1947, 1948
South-East & Border Football League
3
1960, 1961, 1962
Western Border Football League
9
1964, 1979, 1987, 1989, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019

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Notable sportspeople

WBFL Medalists
1957 North Gambier Football Team (State Library of South Australia - BRG 347-2890, from Arthur Family Photographic Collection)
  • G Curnow (1977)
  • W Fletcher (1984)
  • D Wright (1987)
  • Scott Flett (2002, 2005)
  • Justin McConnell (2010)
  • Richard O'Grady (2012, 2014)
  • Declan Carmody (2017)
  • Michael Telford (2019)

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AFL players

See also

References
  1. "Club Contacts". North Gambier Football Club - SportsTG. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  2. The Weekly Times (8 May 1926). "South Australian Border Clubs". Trove. p. 89. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  3. The South Eastern Times (13 March 1934). "North Gambier Threatens Withdrawal". Trove. p. 4. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  4. "South-East And Border Football League / Mount Gambier And Districts Football League (SA)". www.footypedia.com. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  5. "North Gambier Football Club (Vic)". www.footypedia.com. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  6. Devaney, John. "Australian Football - North Gambier Football Club - Stats". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  7. "WBFL Medalists". www.wbfl.com.au. Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  8. McMurtry, Andrew (27 July 2020). "Geelong Cats debutant Brad Close joins first kick first goal club against Fremantle Dockers". News.com.au. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
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