| Irrewarra-Beeac | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| Names | ||
| Full name | Irrewarra-Beeac Football Netball Club | |
| Nickname(s) | Bombers | |
| Club details | ||
| Colours | black red | |
| Competition | Colac DFNL | |
| Premierships | 3 (2008, 2009, 2010) | |
| Ground(s) | Irrewarra Recreation Reserve | |
| Uniforms | ||
| ||
The Irrewarra-Beeac Football Netball Club is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Colac & District Football League (Colac DFL) since 1986. [1] They are based in the Victorian town of Irrewarra. Irrewarra is about six miles east of Colac.
The Irrewarra-Beeac Football Club has competed in the Colac DFL since 1986. They are the result of a merger between the Irrewarra Football club and the Beeac Football clubs in 1986. Both clubs were members of the Colac DFL until rural decline forced the clubs to merge because of lack of players.
In 1985 Beeac found itself in a position where it didn't have enough players to fill the teams so it went into recess. [2] Irrewarra managed to compete in the 1985 season with the help of players from Beeac. At the end of the year they formally made an announcement of a merger. [3] They choose the Irrewarra oval for their home ground. This oval was often used by the league for finals matches. The Beeac home ground was subject to flooding after heavy rain and many games had to be rescheduled because of it.
| Colors | Club | Nickname | Founded | Years in CDFL | Premiers won | Premiership Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beeac | Magpies | 1883 | 1945–1949, 1962–84 | 12 | 1910, 1913, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1937, 1938, 1950, 1956 | |
| Irrewarra | Bombers | 1922 | 1947–85 | 3 | 1948, 1956, 1972 | |
The Irrewarra club had played all of its football in competitions in and around Colac. They started in the CDFL B grade competition in 1947. They won the 1948 B grade flag. In 1950 there was a mass exodus of clubs from the CDFL, the cause was that the Colac (Hampden league) team wanted to have the right to pick any player from the Colac DFL without needing a clearance. The result was the larger clubs opted to leave and join the Polwarth FL and be away from Colac's reach. With only Alvie and Warrion remaining in A Grade the surviving B Grade clubs combined into a single local competition.
The Beeac club because of its location often had to choose whether to play in a league to the North of the town or play in one in the South. Beeac had two stints in the Western Plains FL 1935-1940 and again from 1950 to 1951. Straight after World War II Beeac was in the CDFL from 1945 to 1949, they followed the other clubs out of the competition and way from Colac's reach. There no doubt that the Colac DFL was a stronger competition than the Western Plains League, after two Grand Finals and 1 flag Beeac opted to spend 12 seasons in the Polwarth FL. It won the Flag in 1956 and returned to the CDFL in 1962 when the Polwarth FL start admitting teams from the Bellarine Peninsula.
Colac is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, approximately 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on the southern shore of Lake Colac.
AFL Victoria Country is an Australian rules football governing body with jurisdiction over the state of Victoria outside metropolitan Melbourne on behalf of AFL Victoria. As well as administering and promoting the code in the regions, it often arbitrates disputes in areas such as player clearances and club movements between country leagues, and may also be called upon as a higher authority of appeal. The organisation was formed as a result of a merger between Victorian Country Football League (VCFL) and AFL Victoria in November 2012.
Baseball Victoria is the governing body of baseball within Victoria. Baseball Victoria is governed by the Australian Baseball Federation.
Beeac is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the shore of the hyper-saline Lake Beeac in the Colac Otway Shire local government area, 160 kilometres southwest of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 census, Beeac had a population of 370.
The Caulfield Bears Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Victoria, Australia. The club has competed in the Southern Football League from 1993 to present day. This club was formed in 1993 after the merging of two clubs, St. Kevins Ormond F.C. and St Andrews Gardenvale F.C. rival clubs from the Eastern Suburban Churches Football Association (ESCFA).
The Geelong Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league in Victoria, Australia. It is widely regarded as the highest standard Australian rules football league in regional Victoria, with several former AFL players now playing for a variety of clubs.
The Colac & District Football Netball League (CDFNL) is a minor country football league based in the South West of Victoria in the city of Colac. The CDFNL has 10 clubs, all located in the Colac Otway Shire, with the exception of Lorne, which falls within the Surf Coast Shire. The competition incorporates the two sports of Australian rules football and netball.
The Torquay Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Torquay, Victoria. The Tigers teams currently play in the Bellarine Football League.
The AFL Australian Football League is the top professional Australian rules football league in the world. The league consists of eighteen teams: nine based in the city of Melbourne, one from regional Victoria, and eight based in other Australian states. The reason for this unbalanced geographic distribution lies in the history of the league, which was based solely within Victoria from the time it was established in 1897, until the time the league expanded through the addition of clubs from interstate to the existing teams starting in the 1980s; until this expansion, the league was known as the VFL (Victorian Football League).
The Camperdown Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Magpies, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Camperdown, Victoria.
The Colac Tigers Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the regional city of Colac, Victoria. The club plays at Central Reserve, Colac.
The Inverleigh Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the rural township of Inverleigh, Victoria. From 1970 to 1995, the town was the base for the "Leigh Districts Football Club".
The Winchelsea Football & Netball Club, nicknamed the Blues, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Winchelsea, Victoria.
The Alvie Football Netball Club is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Colac DFL since its founding in 1937. They are based in the Victorian town of Alvie. Alvie is approximately 12 km northwest of Colac, the main regional centre for the region. The current club champion and captain is Charlie Johns
The Western Eagles Football Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club which competes in the Colac DFL since 1996. They are based in the Victorian town of Irrewillipe. Irrewillipe is about twelve miles east of Colac.
The Colac Imperials Football Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club which competes in the Colac DFL since its founding in 1937.
The Huntly Football Club is an Australian Rules Football club which competes in the Heathcote District Football League (HDFL).
Mulgrave Football Club is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the Melbourne suburb of Wheelers Hill in Victoria, Australia. The club is a founding member of the Eastern Football League, with the men's football teams currently competing in Division Two.
The Polwarth Football League (PFL) was an Australian rules football competition based in south-west rural Victoria. Named for the electoral district of Polwarth, which encapsulated numerous competing clubs, the league was established as the Polwarth Football Association (PFA) in 1922, before it was renamed as the Polwarth Football League in 1950.
