Sunshine Football Club (WRFL)

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Full nameSunshine Football Club
Nickname(s)Kangaroos
Club details
Founded1959;65 years ago (1959)
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Competition Western Football Netball League
PremiershipsYCW (3): 1966, 1969, 1976 WFNL (1):2024
Ground(s)Kinder Smith Reserve, Braybrook, [1]
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Official website sunshinekangaroos.com.au

The Sunshine Football Club, nicknamed Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football club which compete in the Western Football Netball League (Formally known as the Western Region Football League) since 1978. [2] They are based in the Melbourne suburb of Braybrook.

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History

Formed as the Sunshine YCW Football Club in 1959 as a junior club. They joined the "YCW National Football Association" playing its first senior game was in 1963. After winning three premierships in the YCW NFA, the club transferred to the Footscray Districts Football League in 1978.

After losing consecutive Grand Finals in 1994 and 1995 in A2 grade the club was promoted to A1 grade (division 1) in 1996 and have remained in the top level of the competition ever since.

At the end of the 2000 season with the change in the League's name the club followed suit by dropping the YCW from its title.

Competitions and Premierships

VFL/AFL players

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References

  1. "Western Region Football League". Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  2. "BLSC History - Belmont Lions Sports Club Football Club".

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