Merrigum FNC | ||
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Names | ||
Full name | Merrigum Football Netball Club | |
Nickname(s) | Bulldogs | |
Club details | ||
Founded | 1902 | |
Colours | ||
Competition | Kyabram District Football League (since 1933) | |
Premierships | 1910, 1928, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1957, 1986, 1987, 1990, 2015. | |
Ground(s) | Merrigum Recreation Reserve | |
Uniforms | ||
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Other information | ||
Official website | Merrigum FNC website |
Merrigum Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Merrigum in the Goulburn Valley region, Victoria, Australia. The club is known as The Bulldogs. [1]
The first evidence of football in the Merrigum area was in 1902, when the football club applied to the Park Trustees to erect goals on the local oval. [2]
In 1905, Merrigum hosted Cooma in a game and won by one point. [3]
Merrigum lost their 1932 Goulburn Valley Central Junior Football League 1st semi final to Stanhope [4] prior to joining the Kyabram & District Football League in 1933.
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