Port Fairy Football Club

Port Fairy
Names
Full name	Port Fairy Football Netball Club
Nickname(s)	Seagulls
Club details
Founded	1868 [1]
Colours
Competition	Hampden FNL
Premierships	1 (1958)
Ground(s)	Gardens Oval
Uniforms
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The Port Fairy Football Club, nicknamed the Seagulls, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the coastal town of Port Fairy, Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the Hampden Football Netball League, ^[2] with its football squad having played there since 1949. ^[3]

Premierships

• Warrnambool District Football Association (1900–1923)
  • 1902, 1904, 1922
• Western District Football League (1924–1933)
  • 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929
• Port Fairy Football League (1924–1948)
  • 1924, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1946, 1947
• Hampden Football Netball League (1949–current)
  • 1958

Maskell Medallists

• George Swarbrick 1958 & 1959
• Gary Hiscox 1967
• Les Gibb 1969
• Kevin Leske 1975
• Maurice O'Keefe 1984
• Michael Taylor 1986

Notable players

VFL/AFL players recruited from Port Fairy include:

• Scott Crow (Hawthorn/Collingwood)
• Ted Llewellyn (Geelong/North Melbourne)
• Noel Mugavin (Fitzroy/Richmond)
• Jim Warren (Geelong)

Bibliography

• Evergreen Hampden: The Hampden Football League and its people, 1930-1976 by Fred Bond & Don Grossman, 1979 – ISBN   0868251089
• History of Football in the Western District by John Stoward – Aussie Footy Books, 2008 – ISBN   9780957751590

References

1. "Port Fairy football club to celebrate 150- year milestone". 6 June 2018.
2. "Official Club Website". Sportingpulse.
3. "Port Fairy". Full Points Footy. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 22 August 2011.

External links

• Twitter site
• SportsTG site