PINT Football Club

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PINT Football Club
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Full namePINT Football Club
Nickname(s)Greenants, Queenants
Former nickname(s)Panthers (1981−1997)
Club details
Founded1981;44 years ago (1981) [1]
Competition Northern Territory Football League
PremiershipsNTFL Division 1 (2)
NTFL Division 2 (2)
NTFLW Premier (3)
NTFA/TEAFA (5) [2]
  • 1986–87
  • 1987–88
  • 1990–91
  • 2008–09
  • 2009–10
Uniforms
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Official website pintfc.tidyhq.com

The PINT Football Club (sometimes referred to as PINTS), nicknamed the Greenants, is an Australian rules football club based in the Darwin suburb of Marrara. [3] The club was formed by people associated with the Postal Institute of the Northern Territory (PINT). [4]

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As of 2024, the club competes in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL), with men's and women's teams participating in Premier League, Division 1 and Division 2. [5] [6]

History

PINT was formed ahead of the 1981–82 NTFL season, entering the NTFL's C Grade (also known as the Carlton United Sunday Competition), which was a lower-level competition for players who were not able to play a game in the NTFL's top division. [1] [7] In 1982, C Grade became its own competition with the formation of the Northern Territory Football Association (NTFA) − which was renamed in 2000 to the Top End Australian Football Association (TEAFA) − and PINT became an inaugural NTFA club. [1] [8]

In its early years, the club was known as the PINT Panthers, and some media reports simply dubbed the club "the Panthers". [4] The club officially changed its nickname to the "Greenants" in 1997. [4]

The TEAFA merged with the NTFL in early 2010, and PINT entered the newly formed NTFL Division 1 for the 2010–11 season. [9] [10] PINT formed a women's team (nicknamed the Queenants) for the 2015–16 Division 1 season, before entering the newly formed Women's Premier League (WPL) for the 2016–17 NTFL season. [4] The club won its first Premier League premiership in 2021. [11] [12]

In December 2021, PINT's committee officially stated its aim to enter the Men's Premier League (MPL) for the 2022–23 NTFL season. [13] This goal was achieved on 27 April 2022, when AFL Northern Territory announced that PINT would be admitted into the MPL. [14] [15] Shannon Motlop was appointed as senior coach, but despite the club reaching the finals series in its first MPL season, Motlop was dismissed as coach after only one year. [16] [17] [18]

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