Tea Tree Gully Football Club

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Tea Tree Gully Football Club
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Names
Full nameTea Tree Gully District Football Club
Nickname(s)Gullies, Wolves
2021 season
Home-and-away season5th
Club details
Founded1862;160 years ago (1862) [note 1]
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Competition Adelaide Footy League
PresidentDavid Crisanti
CoachAlex McKay
Ground(s)Steventon Drive, Banksia Park
Uniforms
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Home
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Other information
Official website gullies.com.au

The Tea Tree Gully District Football Club is an Australian rules football club located in Banksia Park, South Australia. Tea Tree Gully currently plays in the Adelaide Footy League, formerly known as the "South Australian Amateur Football League" (SAAFL).

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History

The club was originally part of "Modbury F.C." in 1862, but it soon split apart from them to form their own institution. Tea Tree played its first game against the "Adelaidians" in a paddock near Modbury on 30 August 1862. It ended when the "Adelaidians" scored their second goal and won the game. [2]

The club's original home was at Memorial Oval, operating out of a tin shed. These relatively primitive facilities prevailed until its current home at Pertaringa Oval was opened in 1964. Originally the club played in the double blue colours associated with Sturt, before switching to the black and red that has been the club's colours to this day.

Tea Tree Gully played in the Torrens Valley Football Association, the North Eastern Hills Football Association, the East Torrens Football Association, the Norwood North Adelaide Football Association and the South Australian Football Association before becoming a part of the South Australian Amateur Football League. [3]

Current Australian Football League players include Daniel Gorringe, Ryan Schoenmakers and Luke Brown. Former Carlton and Adelaide player Troy Menzel joined the club in 2018.

Records

The club holds the record for the most players and teams in South Australia with 829 players and 23 teams in its junior division.[ citation needed ]

Notes

  1. The club played its first match on that date, after splitting apart from Modbury F.C. [1]

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References

  1. History on Gully website
  2. "THE LAW'S DEFECTS". South Australian Register . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 1 September 1862. p. 2. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  3. When The Going Gets Tough...The story of Tea Tree Gully District Football Club, David Crisanti