Dimboola Football Club

Dimboola FNC
Names
Full name	Dimboola Football Netball Club Inc
Nickname	Roos
2025 season
After finals	4th
Home-and-away season	5th
Leading goalkicker	Jackson Calder (62)
Best and fairest	Ben Miller
Club details
Founded	1881
Colours	green & gold
Competition	Wimmera Football League
President	James Barry
Captain	Ben Miller
Premierships	(11): 1913, 1920, 1921 x2, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1946, 1959, 1985, 2013
Ground	Dimboola Recreation Reserve, (capacity: 5,000)
Uniforms
Home
Other information
Official website	Dimboola FNC

The Dimboola Football Club, nicknamed the Roos, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Dimboola, Victoria. The football team competes in the Wimmera Football League (WFL). ^[1]

History

In 1921, Dimboola FC played in two local football competitions, the Western Wimmera FA (Wednesday competition) and the Northern Wimmera FA (Saturday competition) and remarkably Dimboola won both association premerships. Details below.

Dimboola joined the Wimmera District Football League in 1923. In 1932 during the height of the Great depression the small town clubs suffering from financial pressures tried to get the league to change the way the gate taking were distributed to the clubs. The larger town clubs, knowing that they would be disadvantaged, blocked the motion. Nhill and Dimboola both went into recess.

In 1933 Dimboola was back, it formed the Mid Wimmera FL with Minyip, Murtoa, Nhill and Rupanyip. It won the 1933 and 1935 premierships.

While the WDFL approached the Ballarat Football League to merge hoping that greater interest and better football would cause larger gate takings, so in 1934 the Wimmera Football League and the Ballarat Football League merged to form the Ballarat Wimmera FL.

After three years in which the Wimmera clubs faced with greater costs and constantly losing on the footy field, feelers were put out to the smaller clubs, now playing in the Mid Wimmera FL. A peace deal was settled in September 1936 and the Wimmera Football League was reformed in 1937 making it a nine team competition.

Premierships

Senior Football

• Western Wimmera Football Association
  • 1913 ^[2] ,
  • 1920, ^[3]
  • 1921 - Dimboola: 9.12 - 66 d Kaniva: 8.13 - 61 ^[4]

• Northern Wimmera Football Association
  • 1921 - Dimboola d Gerang ^[5]

• Mid Wimmera Football League
  • 1933, 1935

• Wimmera Football League
  • 1937, 1946, 1959, 1985, 2013

Reserves

• 1983, 1985, 2014,

Thirds - Under 16's

• 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1981

VFL / AFL Players

The following footballers played with Dimboola, prior to playing senior football in the VFL/AFL, and / or drafted, with the year indicating their VFL/AFL debut.

• 1912 - Bert Rankin - ex-captain of the Geelong Football Club ^[6]
• 1920 - Ernest Mucklow - Port Adelaide
• 1936 - Jack Baggott - Richmond
• 1975 - Larry Watson - Essendon, Fitzroy
• 1977 - Tim Watson - Essendon
• 2010 - Andrew Moore - Port Adelaide, Richmond

Bibliography

Wheatbelt Warriors. A Tribute To Wimmera Football League.

References

1. "Official Club Website". Sportingpulse.
2. "1913 - Country Football: Dimboola". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). 8 September 1913. p. 11. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
3. "1920 - Football". Lawloit Times (Kaniva, Vic. : 1910 - 1929. 14 September 1920. p. 2. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
4. "1921 - WEST WIMMERA PRIMIERSHIP". Lawloit Times (Kaniva, Vic. : 1910 - 1929). 13 September 1921. p. 2. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
5. "1921 - Matches in the country". The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954). 19 September 1921. p. 14. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
6. Geelong Advertiser, 17 April 1924, p. 3.

External links

• Official Facebook