Kedron Grange Football Club

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Kedron Lions
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Names
Nickname(s)Lions
Club song"It's a grand old flag"
Club details
Founded1937;82 years ago (1937)
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Competition QFA Div 3
PresidentBrett Whicker
CoachDaniel Duffield & Heath Dutchke
Premierships QAFL (7): 1941, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1959, 1980
QFA (2): 2007, 2015
Ground(s)E.K. Anderson Oval, Sixth Ave & Mercer Ave Kedron Qld 4031
Uniforms
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Kedron Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Kedron, Queensland. The team currently competes in the QFA Division 3.

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.

Kedron is a northern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Australian rules football in South East Queensland

Australian rules football in South East Queensland has a varied history and many changes were made especially in the 21st century. Ruled and organised by the AFL Queensland, the region had a total of 46 teams playing in different divisions.

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In the past, Kedron competed in the QAFL where it won 7 premierships.

Queensland Australian Football League

The Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL) is an Australian rules football competition organised by the AFL Queensland, contested by clubs from South East Queensland.

History

Original Kedron club

The Kedron Football Club was formed in 1937 by past pupils of Kedron and Wooloowin State Schools and debuted in the QANFL that year. Although nicknamed the Redlegs, their official emblem was the Lion and the club wore sky blue and red as their colors, however in 1982 they adopted the royal blue and red guernsey as worn by Melbourne Football Club. In both 1939 and 1940 they reached the Grand Final, losing to Windsor on each occasion. They made the Grand Final for the third successive year in 1941 and this time claimed their maiden premiership with a win over Mayne. Kedron, who won back to back premierships in 1943/44 and appeared in every Grand Final from 1946 to 1950, established themselves as Queensland's strongest club in the 1940s. In each of those premiership deciders, Kedron took on Windsor and came out on top in 1946 and 1948. After claiming another premiership in 1959, Kedron suffered a drought until 1980 when they beat Coorparoo by 48 points to win the Grand Final.

Kedron Grange

The "Kedron Grange Football Club" competed in the Queensland Australian Football League. They were formed out of a merger in 1990 from the Kedron Football Club [1] and Wilston Grange Football Club. [2]

AFL Queensland

AFL Queensland (AFLQ) is the governing body of Australian rules football in Queensland. AFL Queensland has over 216,000 participants playing at all levels of football from the introductory NAB AFL Auskick program to the AFL Masters Competition. AFL Queensland covers 13 regions, 24 leagues and 159 clubs.

Wilston Grange Football Club

The Wilston Grange Football Club is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Queensland Australian Football League. It is based in inner-northern Brisbane and fields senior men's and women's, masters, youth and junior teams. The club's home at Hickey Park, Stafford also hosts the largest AFL9s league in Queensland.

Wilston Grange Football Club, who had been formed in 1945, entered the QANFL in 1950. They also wore royal blue and red but also donned white. The Gorillas, as they were known, would make five Grand Finals during their time in the league for premierships in 1955, 1969 and 1972. Their 1969 premiership was remarkable in that they had finished with the wooden spoon the previous season and won the Grand Final by a record 84 points, defeating Sandgate.

At the end of the 1989 season, Kedron and Wilston Grange merged to form the Kedron Grange Football Club. The amalgamated team were known as the "Demons" and wore the unique WG stripe jersey with Kedron red socks. The club played for seven seasons in this form, losing the 1994 Grand Final to Morningside by two points.

At the end of 1996 the merged club had collapsed, both parties to the merger relied on their junior clubs to continue in the underage competitions while Wilston Grange re-fielded a lower level senior team in SQAFL Division 2 in 1995.

Solo again

By 2007 enough support from the juniors allowed the senior club to return to open age football via the Queensland State Association division two. They won the flag that year and were runners up in 2010. In 2015, playing in the QAFA (B) competition, they were undefeated premiers and as a consequence in 2016 the club fielded men's senior and reserves teams in the QAFA (A) competition. In 2016, after a two year hiatus, senior women's football returned to E. K. Anderson Oval and in 2017 the team were runners up in the grand final.

Honours

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Individual

Greg Packham is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1980s.

  • Norm Dare
  • Erwin Dorneau
  • Brian Fallis
  • Tom Gould
  • Marc Housley
  • Lindsay Jacob
  • Kelvin Mills
  • Gordon "Freckles" Phelan
  • Barry Robert-Thompson
  • Col Taylor

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References

  1. ↑ "Kedron Football Club". Full Points Footy.
  2. ↑ "Wilston Grange Football Club". Full Points Footy.
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