South Gambier Football Club

The South Gambier Football Club is an Australian rules football club from Mount Gambier, South Australia. They are currently competing in the Western Border Football League.

South Gambier
Names
Full nameSouth Gambier Football Club
Nickname(s)Demons
Club details
Founded1926
Colours  Red   White
CompetitionWestern Border Football League
PresidentLeigh Winterfield[1]
Premierships16
Ground(s)Blue Lake Sports Park, Mt Gambier
Other information
Official websitewww.southgambierfc.vcfl.com.au

History

The South Gambier Football Club (firstly known as the South Mount Gambier Football Club) was formed in 1926 with the establishment of the South Eastern Football Association.[2] The club made the grand final of the first season, but lost to Naracoorte. The club met the same team in the 1927 premiership, however this time they prevailed by 32 points.[3]

In 1938 the club made the move to the Mid South East Football Association,[4] however the following season was abandoned due to WWII. Following the war, the club reformed and joined the newly-formed Mount Gambier and District Football Association in 1946. South Gambier won premierships in both 1949 and 1951 before the league was renamed the South-East & Border Football League, which it remained in until the establishment of the Western Border Football League in 1964 (after a merger with the Western District Football League).[5]

South Gambier made its first appearance in a grand final in the WBFL in 1970, losing to Hamilton by 80 points. The Demons first WBFL premiership win was recorded in 1974, beating East Gambier by 34 points.[6] The club continued to make regular premiership appearances, winning in 1992, 1994, 1996-7-8-9-2000, 2002, 2005, 2009, and finally in 2015.[7]

Premierships
LeagueTotal flagsPremiership years
South Eastern Football Association
2
1927, 1933
Mount Gambier and Districts Football Association
2
1949, 1951
Western Border Football League
12
1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2015

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Notable Sportspeople
1951 South Gambier Football Team (State Library of South Australia - BRG 347-6707, from Arthur Family Photographic Collection)

WBFL Medalists
  • B Smith (1971)
  • L Bell (1986)
  • R Elliot (1992)
  • M Ryan (1996)
  • B Howard (2004)
  • J Copping (2006)
  • S Berkefeld (2011)

[9]

Entertainment

On 3 January 1976, the South Gambier Football Club was the host to Australian rock band AC/DC. The band played a setlist of nine songs for their first of two concerts in 1976 in Mount Gambier.[10]

See also

References
  1. "Contact Details". South Gambier Football Club - SportsTG. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  2. The Weekly Times (8 May 1926). "South Australian Border Clubs". Trove. p. 89. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  3. Devaney, John. "Australian Football - South Gambier Football Club - Stats". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  4. "Mid South East Football League (SA)". www.footypedia.com. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  5. "South-East And Border Football League / Mount Gambier And Districts Football League (SA)". www.footypedia.com. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  6. "South Gambier Football Club (SA)". www.footypedia.com. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  7. Willoughby, Terry (28 September 2015). "From the sidelines: South Gambier edge out North in Western Border League Grand Final thriller". ABC South East SA. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  8. "South Gambier FC - AustralianRulesFootball.com.au". www.australianrulesfootball.com.au. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  9. "WBFL Medalists". WBFL. Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  10. "AC/DC Tour History - 3 Jan. 1976 Mount Gambier (Football Club)". ac-dc.net. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
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