Mortlock Shield

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Mortlock Shield Championship
Most recent season or competition:
2023
Sport Australian rules football
Founded1936
Inaugural season27 June 1936;86 years ago (1936-06-27)
DivisionsMortlock Shield - Senior Men Norwood Cup - Under 15 Mixed
No. of teams5
Most recent
champion(s)
Western Eyre
(8th Championship)
(2022)
Most titlesGreat Flinders
(27 Championships)
Sponsor(s) Bendigo Bank
Norwood Football Club
City of Port Lincoln
Related
competitions
Eastern Eyre Football League, Great Flinders Football League, Port Lincoln Football League, Western Eyre Football League, South Australian Country Football Championships, SANFL
Official website www.mortlockshield.com.au

The Mortlock Shield Championship, known for commercial reasons as the Port Lincoln Bendigo Bank Mortlock Shield Championship and commonly known as just the Mortlock Shield is an annual Australian rules football competition based in Port Lincoln, South Australia. The competition takes place every year at Centenary Oval and it consists of a round robin lightning football tournament with representative teams of leagues from the Eyre Peninsula and beyond. It is an affiliated competition of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). The current champions are Western Eyre who won the 2023 edition of the carnival.

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Brief history

Named after William Tennant Mortlock, the Mortlock Shield began in 1936 when the football associations of Central Eyre, Cleve, Eastern Eyre, Great Flinders and Port Lincoln decided to hold a football tournament to celebrate the centenary of South Australia. Since 1994 The best players from the carnival are selected to play for Eyre Peninsula in the SA Country Football Championship.

Format

The current format of the Mortlock Shield consists of a single round robin structure composed of 5 representative sides of football leagues from around the Eyre Peninsula. The carnival is held over two days on the Kings Birthday long weekend (Saturday and Monday). The games are played in a single round robin under lightning football conditions with two 20 minute halves. The team on top of the ladder after four games played is declared champion and awarded the perpetual Mortlock Shield to commemorate their win.

List of Champions

List of Mortlock Shield Champions. [1]

Current Teams

TeamRepresentativeYears in compShieldsChampionship years
Eastern Eyre Eastern Eyre Football League 1936–1962,

1989-

61939, 1958, 1989, 1991, 1995, 2016
Great Flinders Great Flinders Football League 1936-271936, 1951, 1955-56-57, 1959, 1972,1974-75-76, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1992–93, 1996, 1998, 2001–02, 2006-07-08, 2013–14, 2019, 2021-22
Lincoln City Port Lincoln Football League

(Lincoln South, Tasmans and Waybacks players)

1964–2006

2012-

71964-65, 1967, 1970, 2004, 2012, 2017
Lincoln Districts Port Lincoln Football League(Bostons, Mallee Park and Marble Range players)1964–2006

2012-

91968, 1971, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1994, 1999
Western Eyre

(Formally Far West)

Western Eyre Football League 1957-81960, 1969, 1983–84, 1986, 1988, 1990, 2023

2017 Ladder

PosTeamPlayedWinsLossesForAgainst%Pts
1Lincoln City2201309258.564
2Great Flinders2201108456.704
3EP Sharks2111167959.492
4Far West2111198957.212
5Eastern Eyre21112310853.252
6Lincoln Districts21110211746.582
7Mid West2029813641.880
8Far North2025815127.750

2018 Ladder

PosTeamPlayedWinsLossesForAgainst%Pts
1EP Sharks2201727669.354
2Great Flinders220935662.424
3Mid West2111266466.322
4Lincoln City211909947.622
5Eastern Eyre211819945.002
6Far West2119614440.002
7Lincoln Districts20210511547.430
8Far North2023614619.780

2019 Ladder

PosTeamPlayedWinsLossesForAgainst%Pts
1Great Flinders2201228160.104
2Lincoln Districts2201259556.824
3Lincoln City21110510350.482
4Eastern Eyre211869048.862
5Mid West2028410344.920
6Far West2028213238.320

2021 Ladder

PosTeamPlayedWinsLossesForAgainst%Pts
1Great Flinders43118711961.116
2Lincoln City43114014748.786
3Eastern Eyre42213116344.564
4Lincoln Districts41316616647.802
5Western Eyre41312413947.152

2022 ladder

PosTeamPlayedWinsLossesForAgainst%PtsFinalTeamGBPtsTeamGBPts
1Great Flinders4401619064.148Grand FinalGreat Flinders6541Eastern Eyre3533
2Eastern Eyre4311108462.946
3Lincoln Districts42214611156.814
4Western Eyre41312816144.292
5Lincoln City4048220029.080

2023 Ladder

PosTeamPlayedWinsLossesForAgainst%Pts
1Western Eyre4311618465.716
2Lincoln Districts43117512757.956
3Great Flinders42214711755.684
4Lincoln City4138914338.362
5Eastern Eyre4137817930.352

Norwood Cup

The Norwood Cup, formally North Adelaide Shield and Port Adelaide Cup is an Under-15's mixed Competition ran on the Saturday between the Mortlock Shield. The cup is sponsored by the Norwood Football Club who compete in the SANFL as the Eyre Peninsula falls under their academy zone which is in place to develop youth football to professional level in South Australia.

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References

  1. "History – Bendigo Bank Mortlock Shield Championships".