Wangaratta Football Club

The Wangaratta Magpies Football Club, officially known as the Wangaratta Magpies Football & Netball Club, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Ovens and Murray Football League based in Wangaratta, Victoria at the Wangaratta Showgrounds and play on the Norm Minns Oval.[1]

Wangaratta Football Club
Full name Wangaratta Football Club
Nickname Magpies
Strip Black and white vertical stripes
Founded 1870s
League Ovens & Murray Football League
Ground Wangaratta Showgrounds
Last Senior Premiership 2017

The Wangaratta Football Club was the first football club to be founded in Wangaratta, in the mid 1870s, when matches were played intermittently against other local towns like - Albury, Beechworth, Benalla, Chiltern, Corowa, Howlong, Rutherglen, Tarrawingee and Wahgunyah.[2]

Wangaratta FC entered a team into the Ovens and King FL in its first year of competition in 1903.[3]

Wangaratta FC entered two sides into the Ovens & King FL in 1941 and they both played off in the grand final, with the "Rainbows" defeating Wangaratta.[4]

In 1945 Wangaratta entered a team in the Murray Valley Football League and they became undefeated premiers.[5]

Wangaratta FC have been in the Ovens & Murray Football League continuously since 1946.

Since 2012, the club has three football teams and four netball teams in the Ovens & Murray Football League.

Football Premierships
Seniors
LeagueTotal flagsPremiership year(s)
Wangaratta Football Association11892
Murray Valley Football League21898,[6] 1945
Ovens & King Football Association[7]51905, 1906, 1920, 1931, 1932, 1941
Corowa & District Knockout Competition - "VFL Cup"11949 [8]
Ovens & Murray Football Association[9]141925, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1976, 2007, 2008, 2017

References
  1. "Funds boost targets showgrounds revamp". ABC Goulburn Murray. 19 May 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  2. "Formation of the Wangaratta FC". Trove Newspapers. The Corowa Free Press Newspaper.
  3. "1903 - Ovens & King FL Teams". Ovens & King FL. Ovens & King FL.
  4. "1941 Ovens & King FL Premiership". Trove Newspapers. The Corowa Free Press Newspaper.
  5. "1945 Murray Valley FL Premiership". Trove Newspapers. The Corowa Free Press Newspaper.
  6. "1898 Murray Valley FA Premiership". Trove Newspapers. Ovens and Murray Advertiser Newspaper.
  7. "Ovens & King FNL Premierships". Ovens & King FNL. Ovens & King FNL.
  8. "1946 - Corowa & District Knockout Competition = "VFL Cup"". Trove Newspapers. The Corowa Free Press.
  9. "Ovens & Murray Premierships". Ovens & Murray FNL. Ovens & Murray FNL.
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