Bendigo Gold Football Club

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Bendigo Gold
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Full nameBendigo Gold Football Club
Nickname(s)Diggers, Bombers, Gold
Club details
Founded1998
Dissolved2014
Colours   Gold
Competition Victorian Football League
Ground(s) Queen Elizabeth Oval (capacity: 18,000)
 View Street, Bendigo, 3550
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The Bendigo Gold Football Club was an Australian rules football club based in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. The club played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1998 until 2014, under the nicknames Diggers, Bombers and Gold at different times. The club disbanded at the conclusion of the 2014 VFL season. [1]

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History

The club entered the VFL in 1998 as the Bendigo Diggers. It struggled for on-field success, winning only seven games in its first three seasons, and enduring successive winless seasons in 2001 and 2002. [2]

Starting from 2003 the club formed an affiliation with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League, under which Essendon could field its reserves players in the Bendigo team. The Diggers mascot was changed to the Bendigo Bombers and the guernsey changed to black with a red sash, to match those of the Essendon AFL club. Over the following ten years of the clubs' affiliation, the club played finals five times, with its best finish and sole finals victory coming in 2005, when the club finished fourth. The club also endured another winless season during the affiliation, in 2009. [2]

After the completion of the 2011 season, Essendon announced that the 2012 season would be the last season of affiliation with Bendigo; Essendon fielded a stand-alone reserves team in the VFL from 2013, and Bendigo returned to fielding a stand-alone senior team. To reflect the impending change, the team changed its name to the Bendigo Gold, starting in 2012 (the final season of the clubs' affiliation). [3]

Without access to the professional players or financial support offered by its affiliation with Essendon, Bendigo quickly struggled to remain competitive as a stand-alone club. Bendigo was winless in both 2013 and 2014 – which, when added to the 2001 and 2002 seasons, represented four consecutive winless seasons as a stand-alone club. In June 2014, the club concluded that it was not financially viable in the long term; it consequently disbanded and left the VFL following the 2014 season. [1]

Honour board

YearFinishing positionCoachCaptain/sBest and FairestLeading Goalkicker
199810th Ross Smith Ross SmithDave Lancaster
199911th (Last) Nathan Bower Nathan Bower David Lancaster
200018th (Last) Nathan Bower Darren Walsh Nick Carter
200116th (Last) Neville Massina Darren Walsh Damien Lock
200216th (Last) Damian Drum Nick Carter Nick Carter
200310th Peter Banfield Nick Carter Nick Carter
20048th Peter Banfield Nick Carter Jordan Doering
20054th Matthew Knights Nick Carter Jordan Doering
200612th Matthew Knights Nick Carter Ben Jolley
20078th Matthew Knights Simon Rosa Kepler Bradley
200810th Adrian Hickmott James Flaherty Hayden Skipworth
200913th (Last) Adrian Hickmott James Flaherty Paul Scanlon Darcy Daniher (14)
20108th Shannon Grant James Flaherty Michael Quinn
20117th Shannon Grant Ben Duscher / Trent Shinners Ben Duscher
20128th Hayden Skipworth Ben Duscher / Trent Shinners Brendan Lee Matthew Little (52)
201314th (Last) Austinn Jones Steven Stroobants Alik Magin Alik Magin (17)
201416th (Last) Austinn Jones Steven StroobantsDaniel Toman [4] Tyrone Downie (31)

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References

  1. 1 2 Brent Diamond (25 June 2014). "VFL club Bendigo Gold to fold". The Age. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 Luke West (14 September 2012). "So long Dons". Bendigo Advertiser. Bendigo, VIC. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Landsberger, Sam (27 March 2012). "Bendigo Gold unveiled for final year with Bombers before Dons go solo in VFL". Herald Sun. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  4. ↑ Toman wins 2014 Gold best and fairest


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