Wodonga Saints | ||
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Names | ||
Full name | Wodonga Saints Football Netball Club | |
Nickname(s) | Saints | |
Motto | "Our Strength is You" | |
Club song | "Oh When The Saints Go Marching In" | |
Club details | ||
Founded | 1907 | |
Colours | ||
Competition | Tallangatta & District Football League | |
Premierships | 1913, 1929 | |
Ground(s) | Martin Park, Wodonga & Bethanga Park | |
Uniforms | ||
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Other information | ||
Official website | wodongasaints.com.au |
The Wodonga Saints Football Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club playing their home games at Martin Park in Wodonga, Victoria, Australia.
Originally established as the Bethanga Football Club in 1907, with the club was based at the Bethanga Park Recreation Reserve, Bethanga, Victoria, Australia up until 2001.
Following the 1999 Victorian Country Football League report that stated a number of clubs, including Bethanga, were on the verge of collapsing if some kind of action was not taken. After playing a handful of matches at Wodonga's Martin Park to see if there would be enough local support to support the club moving there, the club made the decision in 2002 and Bethanga FC relocated fully to Martin Park, Wodonga & were renamed as the Wodonga Saints Football Club.
The Bethanga Football Club was established in 1907 and initially played in the Mitta Mitta Football League (Tallangatta Football Association) with its first match against Tallangatta Football Club at home at Bethanga Park in the black and red (Essendon) colors. [1]
Local brothers, Arthur Mills and Albert Mills played for Bethanga in the 1926 and 1927 Kiewa & District Football Association grand finals, before the family moved to Oxley, [2] near Wangaratta, playing with Wangaratta Football Club in 1929, then both brothers made their debuts for the Hawthorn Football Club in 1930.
In 1928, Bethanga FC wore the colours of red, white and blue.
In 1958, Granya FC (who folded in 1954) and Bethanga FC merged to become the Granya / Bethanga Bombers and were coached by Norm Benstead, who happened to kick 100 plus goals in 1958. In 1959, the merged club changed its name to the Murray United Football Club and was coached by Alf Deane. Unfortunately for the local community the new club folded after the 1959 season, after winning only one game and forfeiting two. Granya FC would never reform and the Bethanga FC would not reform until the 1976 Tallangatta & District Football League season. [3]
Bethanga Football Club have played in the following football competitions.
In 2002, the club decided to relocate to Martin Park, Wodonga in order to save the club from possibly folding.
Football Season | Senior Ladder Position | Reserves Ladder Position | Thirds / U/17's Ladder Position | Fourths / U/14's Ladder Position |
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2002 | 5 | |||
2003 | ||||
2004 | ||||
2005 | ||||
2006 | ||||
2007 | ||||
2008 | ||||
2009 | 11 | 10 | 1st | 12 |
2010 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 11 |
2011 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
2012 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 11 |
2013 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 12 |
2014 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 10 |
2015 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
2016 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 12 |
2017 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 |
2018 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 11 |
2019 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 11 |
2020 | COVID-19 | COVID-19 | COVID-19 | COVID-19 |
2021 | 12 | 9 | No team | No team |
Since 2009 the Wodonga Saints have moved one home match back to the old Bethanga Football Ground on four occasions. The move has been widely welcomed by both the football club & greater Bethanga community.
Year | G | B | Pts | Home | G | B | Pts | Away | Report |
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2009 | 11 | 7 | 73 | Wodonga Saints | 16 | 11 | 107 | Mitta United | Report (Saturday April 18) |
2010 | No match played | ||||||||
2011 | No match played | ||||||||
2012 | No match played | ||||||||
2013 | 17 | 12 | 114 | Wodonga Saints | 10 | 11 | 71 | Tallangatta | Report (Saturday May 4) |
2014 | 11 | 7 | 73 | Wodonga Saints | 11 | 12 | 78 | Tallangatta | Report (Saturday April 12) |
2015 | 2 | 5 | 17 | Wodonga Saints | 49 | 23 | 317 | Tallangatta | Report (Saturday May 30) |
2016 | No match scheduled | ||||||||
2017 | No match scheduled | ||||||||
2018 | No match scheduled | ||||||||
2019 | No match scheduled | ||||||||
2020 | No match scheduled. Season abandoned due to COVID-19. | ||||||||
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