Mitchell Park Football Club

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Mitchell Park
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Full nameMitchell Park Football Club
Club details
Founded1968;57 years ago (1968)
Colours  green   white   red
Competition South Australian Amateur Football League
CoachScott Weekley
Ground(s)Mitchell Park Oval, Mitchell Park
Uniforms
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The Mitchell Park Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club that was founded in 1968 by Edward McAvaney, currently playing in the South Australian Amateur Football League, that initially played in the Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association. [1]

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Mitchell Park remained in the Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association, later known as the Southern Metropolitan Football League, until the end of the 1985 season.

Mitchell Park joined the South Australian Football Association in 1986 and remained in that competition they transferred to the Southern Football League Division 1 competition in 1994. Mitchell Park lasted four seasons in the Division 1 competition before they were relegated to the Division 2 competition in 1998. [2]

In 2001, Mitchell Park left the Southern Football League and joined the South Australian Amateur Football League Division 6 competition and have drifted between Divisions 5, 6 and 7 in the years since. [1] [3]

Mitchell Park also fields junior teams in the Metro South Junior Football League. [4]

A-Grade Premierships

References

  1. 1 2 "History". Mitchell Park Football Club. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  2. Whitford, Jane (23 March 2011). "Seven-year Stint". Southern Times Messenger. p. 8. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  3. "Clubs – Mitchell Park". South Australian Amateur Football League. Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  4. "Clubs – Mitchell Park". Metro South Junior Football League. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  5. Turner, Matt (7 September 2015). "Tears as ridiculed Aldinga Sharks footy coach proves doubters wrong at Mitchell Park". News Corporation. Messenger Community News. Retrieved 7 September 2015.