Glenorchy | ||
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Names | ||
Full name | Glenorchy Football Club | |
Former name(s) | New Town Football Club | |
Nickname(s) | Magpies, Pies | |
Motto | Fortis ad Finem (Fight to the Finish) | |
2023 season | ||
After finals | 7th | |
Home-and-away season | 7th | |
Leading goalkicker | Nathan Blowfield (13) | |
Club details | ||
Founded | 1919 | |
Colours | Black and White | |
President | John McCann | |
Coach | Aaron Cornelius | |
Captain(s) | Joshua Arnold | |
Premierships | 17 (1935, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1965, 1975, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2016) | |
Ground(s) | KGV Oval Glenorchy, Tasmania (capacity: 18,000+ capacity) | |
Uniforms | ||
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Other information | ||
Official website | glenorchymagpies.org.au |
The Glenorchy District Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Tasmanian State League and the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia.
The club is nicknamed the Magpies after its black and white playing strip, and was originally known as New Town Football Club (wearing a green and white strip) when it started out as a member of the Tasmanian Football League in 1919.
New Town changed its name to Glenorchy in 1957 after absorbing the already established club Glenorchy Rovers and relocated its headquarters to KGV Oval at Glenorchy in Hobart's northern suburbs in the same year, playing its first match at the venue on 4 May 1957 against Hobart. It remains there to this day. After the death of the Tasmanian Football League in December 2000, the club was temporarily without a league to play in.
After some political maneuvering within football circles, Glenorchy were admitted to the Southern Football League, but at a high price from a traditional standpoint, with the club being forced, as a condition of entry to the League, to give up its black-and-white playing strip as well as its Magpies emblem, as it clashed with former Southern Amateur club Claremont Magpies, who were already a member of the SFL.
Glenorchy announced in early 2001 that they would adopt a new green, black & white playing uniform, and be known as the "Glenorchy Storm". This was not popular with fans, many of whom drifted away from the club, and its membership and support base decreased rapidly.
There was to be considerable rejoicing amongst its fans in 2004, after persistent pressure from the club, and the fact that Claremont were now playing in the SFL Regional League, which resulted in Glenorchy being granted the return of its black-and-white strip, and the Magpie emblem.
24,968: 1979 TFL Grand Final vs Clarence Roos at North Hobart Oval.
8,480 + approx. 2000 non-paying juniors: 2011 TSL Round 1 vs Clarence Roos at KGV Oval
TFL 34.21 (225) vs Hobart 18.14 (122) at KGV Oval Round 22, 1983.
Coach [1] | Years | Competition | Premierships |
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Roy Cazaly | 1948–1951 | TANFL | 1948, 1949, 1951 |
Bill Fox | 1952 | TANFL | |
Jack Rough | 1953–1960 | TANFL | 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958 |
John Chick | 1961–1963 | TANFL | |
Bob Parsons | 1964–1968 | TANFL | 1965 |
Graeme Gahan | 1969–1970 | TANFL | |
Trevor Sprigg | 1971–1974 | TANFL | |
Peter Hudson | 1975–1976 | TANFL | 1975 |
Jack Rough | 1977–1979 | TANFL | |
Colin Tully | 1980 | TANFL | |
Peter Hudson | 1981 | TANFL | |
Garry Davidson | 1982–1984 | TANFL | 1983 |
Danny Ling | 1985–1987 | TANFL/TFL Statewide | 1985, 1986 |
Robert Groenewegen | 1988 | TFL Statewide | |
Billy Picken | 1989 | TFL Statewide | |
Danny Ling | 1990–1991 | TFL Statewide | |
Kim Excell | 1992–1995 | TFL Statewide | |
Paul Hamilton | 1996–1999 | TFL Statewide/TSFL | 1999 |
Shayne Stevenson | 2000 | SWL | |
Steve Reissig | 2001 | SFL | |
Leigh McConnon | 2002 | SFL | |
John Klug | 2003–2004 | SFL | |
David Newett | 2005–2007 | SFL | 2007 |
Michael Bowden | 2008 | SFL | 2008 |
Ben Reid | 2009–2010 | TSL | |
Byron Howard | 2011 | SFL | |
Ben Beams | 2012–2013 | TSL | |
Aaron Cornelius | 2014–2017 | TSL | 2016 |
Paul Kennedy | 2018–2021 | TSL | |
Aaron Cornelius | 2022– | TSL |
Notable players that went on the play in the VFL/AFL who started at Glenorchy:
Players who came to Glenorchy post-career: [2]
(Best and fairest player – TFL and SFL premier senior football)
(Best and fairest player – TFL reserves football)
(Best and fairest player – TFL thirds football)
(Best and fairest – TFL fourths football)
(Best and fairest – Tasmanian state team)
(Best on field in the Premier League Grand Final)
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