Thurgoona Football Club | ||
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Full name | Thurgoona Football Netball Club | |
Nickname(s) | Bulldogs | |
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Founded | 1988 | |
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Competition | Tallangatta & District | |
Ground(s) | Thurgoona Football Ground | |
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The Thurgoona Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Bulldogs, is an Australian rules football and netball club playing in the Tallangatta & District Football League. The club is based in Thurgoona, New South Wales
Thurgoona Football Club won their first premiership in the Albury District Football Association in 1900 defeating Black Range at Jindera Park, to win the Swain Trophy. [1] [2]
The first recorded match involving Thurgoona FC was in 1883 when they played Wodonga FC, at Wodonga in July, 1883. [3]
South Albury (established in 1945) who had been playing in the Tallangatta & District Football League since 1977 were struggling on and off the field tried to relocate and start afresh as Thurgoona but the move didn't eventuate forcing the club to fold in 1981. [4]
Thurgoona have made the finals on five occasions
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