North Geelong Football Club

The North Geelong Football Netball Club Inc is an Australian rules football and netball club located in Geelong.

North Geelong
Names
Full nameNorth Geelong Football Club Inc
Nickname(s)Magpies
Club details
Founded1876 (1876) [1]
Colours     Black      White
CompetitionGeelong District FL
Premierships18
Ground(s)Osborne Park [2]
Uniforms
Home
Other information
Official websitenorthgeelongfnc.net.au

History

The club was established in 1876, and is currently in the Geelong & District Football League. The club's colours are black and white, with a magpie as their logo. Their home shorts are black with black socks. They have won a total of 17 senior premierships, 11 reserves premierships and 7 U18s premierships. Their home ground is Osborne Park in Swinbourne Street, North Geelong.[3]

The club dominated the league in the 1950s, winning seven premierships in a row and eight premierships in ten years between 1949–1958. In 1959, the club considered joining the Victorian Football Association, which was expanding at the time, and the club approached the VFA to enquire about minimum home ground requirements and the like; but it never ultimately joined.[4]

Premierships
  • Geelong & District Football League
    • Seniors - 1925, 1930, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2002, 2013
      • Reserves - 1949, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1988, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
        • Under 18's - 1939, 1944, 1949, 1952, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014

VFL/AFL

Bibliography
  • Cat Country: History of Football In The Geelong Region by John Stoward – ISBN 978-0-9577515-8-3

References
  1. "North Geelong FC - AustralianRulesFootball.com.au". australianrulesfootball.com.au. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  2. "North Geelong Football and Netball Club". Geelong Australia. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  3. Devaney, John. "Australian Football - North+Geelong Football Club - Stats". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  4. Scot Palmer (6 July 1959). "VFA move by North Geelong". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne, VIC. p. 33.
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