Bacchus Marsh Football and Netball Club is an Australian rules football and

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club, located in Bacchus Marsh in

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. The football squad competes in the

Ballarat Football League The Ballarat Football League (BFL) is an Australian rules football competition that operates in the Ballarat region of Victoria, Australia. The competition formed in 1893 as the Ballarat Football Association and was renamed Ballarat Football ...

, which is part of the Victorian Country Football League. The home ground of Bacchus Marsh is

Maddingley Park Maddingley is a suburb of Bacchus Marsh, a peri-urban town in central Victoria, Australia. The locality consists of the portion of the Bacchus Marsh urban area south of the Werribee River. It is in the Shire of Moorabool, west north west of t ...

, located to the south of Bacchus Marsh.

History

The club was originally two clubs: the Bacchus Marsh Tigers who wore a black guernsey with a yellow strip going diagonally from top left to bottom right, and the Maddingley Spiders who wore a black guernsey with a red strip going diagonally from top left to bottom right. In 1978 Maddingley left the Ballarat-Bacchus Marsh FL and joined the

. Bacchus Marsh remained in the B-BMFL and struggled because the club was practically

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. At the end of the season a deal was done and the two clubs merged. The two teams merged in 1979 to form Maddingley-Bacchus Marsh FC who now wear a black guernsey with two "v" shape strips, one red, one yellow starting at the top left and finishing on the top right. The team changed their name to the Bacchus Marsh FC in 1983. There have been a few great footballers to go through the district including, Fred Wooller, Sandy Talbot, Frank Pomeroy, and Liam Duggan.

Premierships

*Bacchus Marsh - 1920, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1933, 1937, 1940, 1941, 1962, 1974. *Maddingley - 1914, 1936, 1951, 1954, 1958, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1977.

*2016

Henderson Medal winners

1997 - Wayne Cracknell 2018 - Daniel Burton

Tony Lockett Medal winners

*1987 - M.Scott (69 goals), *1990 - M.Scott (79), *1991 - R.Maguire (82), *1998 - Brendan Hehir (74), *2000 - Chris Stuldreier (93), *2001 - Chris Stuldreier (88)

VFL/AFL players

Harry Vallence Henry Francis "Soapy" Vallence (4 June 1905 – 25 July 1991) was a champion Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Victorian Football Association (VFA). He played at full forward for the VFL's Carlton Foo ...

- * Keith Shea - and * Fred Wooller - * Bill Closter - Footscray * Wayne Closter - * Nick Suban - * Liam Duggan -

External links

Official Site

Book

History of Football in the Ballarat District by John Stoward - Bacchus Marsh Bacchus Marsh 1979 establishments in Australia Australian rules football clubs in Victoria (Australia) B {{AFL-team-stub