Leopold Football Club | |
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Names | |
Full name | Leopold Football Club |
Nickname(s) | Leos [1] |
Club details | |
Founded | 1898 |
Dissolved | 1924 |
Competition | Metropolitan Amateur FA (1898–1918) Victorian Junior FL (1919–1924) |
President | C.D.M. Thomson (1912) [2] [3] |
Premierships | MJFA (5) |
The Leopold Football Club was an Australian rules football club based in the suburb of South Melbourne. [4] [5]
The club is best known for acting as the reserves team for the South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Junior Football League (VJFL, later AFL reserves) from 1919 until 1924. [6] [7]
Leopold first appeared in historical records in 1898, competing in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA). [8] The club won its first MJFA premiership in 1900, going back-to-back with another victory in 1901. [6] At some point around 1904, Leopold had a relationship with the Melbourne Football Club. [9]
The club won two premierships in a row again in 1910 and 1911. [6] In 1912, like other MJFA clubs developing formal affiliations, Leopold developed an association with the South Melbourne Football Club, which competed in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [8] As South Melbourne was a seniors side, Leopold operated as its juniors team. [10]
A fifth premiership was won in 1915, before the impacts of World War I in Australia affected football competitions.
The VFL introduced a reserves competition in 1919, known as the Victorian Junior Football League (VJFL), and Leopold contested as South Melbourne's affiliate until the end of the 1924 season.
In 1925, the competition was renamed as the VFL seconds, and the South Melbourne Second Eighteen (later known as the South Melbourne reserves) replaced Leopold in the competition. [11] [12]
Premiers | Grand Finalist | Minor premiers | Finals appearance | Wooden spoon | League leading goalkicker | League best and fairest |
Year | League | Finish | W | L | D | Coach | Captain | Leading goalkicker | Goals |
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1898 | MJFA | 3rd | 9 | 5 | 2 | ||||
1899 | MJFA | 2nd | 10 | 4 | 3 | ||||
1900 | MJFA | 1st | 15 | 1 | 0 | T. Williams [13] | V. Coutie [14] | 37 | |
1901 | MJFA | ||||||||
1902 | MJFA | ||||||||
1903 | MJFA | ||||||||
1904 | MJFA | ||||||||
1905 | MJFA | ||||||||
1906 | MJFA | ||||||||
1907 | MJFA | ||||||||
1908 | MJFA | ||||||||
1909 | MJFA | ||||||||
1910 | MJFA | ||||||||
1911 | MJFA | ||||||||
1912 | MAFA | ||||||||
1913 | MAFA | ||||||||
1914 | MAFA | ||||||||
1915 | MAFA | ||||||||
1919 | VJFL | 3rd | |||||||
1920 | VJFL | ||||||||
1921 | VJFL | 9th | |||||||
1922 | VJFL | 9th | |||||||
1923 | VJFL | 5th | |||||||
1923 | VJFL | 5th | 10 | 8 | 0 |
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The Leopolds, whose district is South Melbourne
I hear that the redlegs will be able still to draw upon their Leopold friends for such supplies as may be necessary to equip them fully.