Channel Football Club

Channel Saints
Full name	Channel Football Club
Nickname	Saints
Sport	Australian rules football
Founded	1967
Dissolved	2016
League	Old Scholars Football Association.(Tas)
Home ground	Snug Park (capacity: 2,800)
Anthem	"There's A Team On The Track, Dressed In Red, White & Black"

Last updated December 22, 2024

The Channel Football Club is a former Australian rules football club that last played in the Old Scholars Football Association (Tas) in 2015.
In its history, the club had been a playing member of the Huon Football Association from 1967-1995, the Southern Football League from 1996-2008 and lastly the Old Scholars Football Association from 2009-2015.
The club, which had struggled for much of the previous fifteen years, went into recess owing to a lack of available players prior to the 2016 season and folded.

The Formation of Channel Football Club

The Channel Football Club was formed in 1967 after the disastrous 1967 Tasmanian bushfires, which decimated the Channel region. With the demise of the Margate, Kettering, Snug and Woodbridge Football Clubs, the Channel Football Club was formed to incorporate all four of these clubs, Channel would be lining up for the 1967 season in the Huon Football Association. Shortly afterwards, a set of red, white and black playing jumpers were donated to the club by the Longley Football Club, which would no longer be needing them as it had recently merged with Kingston (now Kingborough). Channel adopted the Saints emblem and Red, White & Black playing strip and were firstly based at Margate before moving to the club's present Snug Park headquarters. Channel left the Huon Football Association at the end of 1995 and joined the then STFL (now SFL) in 1996 whereby they won the League's inaugural Senior premiership.

The Struggle and Joining the Old Scholars

After losing their final twenty three consecutive matches in the SFL Regional League, including a winless 2008 season, the Channel Football Club applied to join the more social Old Scholars Football Association.
In January 2009, the Channel Football Club was granted permission to join the Old Scholars Football Association. The club feared that they would be no match for former Premier League clubs rejoining the same competition as them, and that the resulting beatings they would've suffered could well have spelled the end of the Channel Football Club's existence. After a number of years of continuous struggle in the OSFA, including losing their first forty consecutive matches in the competition, the club battled on until the end of the 2015 season.
Over the Summer break, Channel found itself with a critical shortage of players and in March 2016 it announced that the club would cease to exist effective immediately.
Channel's final match in its existence was on Saturday, 29 August 2015 at Snug Park in the final roster round of that season's Old Scholars Football Association when they hosted eventual premier, Richmond.
Richmond won the match by 45-points, 15.13 (103) to Channel 9.4 (58).

Stadiums, Achievements & Club Records

Club Formed - 1967
Colours - Red, Black & White.
Emblem - The Saints
Song - There's A Team On The Track, Dressed In Red, White & Black.
Entry to Huon Football Association - 1967
Entry to Southern Football League - 1996
Entry to Old Scholars Football Association - 2009
Old Scholars Football Association Premierships - Nil
Old Scholars Football Association Runners Up - Nil
Southern Football League Premierships - 1996
Southern Football League Runners Up - Nil
Huon Football Association Premierships - 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990
Peter Hodgman Medallists - Andrew Beveridge (1998); M.Gowans (2005)
Club Record Games Holder - 411 by Ken Smith
Club Record Attendance - 4,149 v Kingston (Kingborough Tigers) - 1996 SFL Grand Final at Abbotsfield Park.
Club Record Score - 60.36 (396) vs Lachlan 1.0 (6) at Snug Park in 1996

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