The Bungaree Football & Netball Club is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

and

netball Netball is a ball sport played on a court by two teams of seven players. It is among a rare number of sports which have been created exclusively for female competitors. The sport is played on indoor and outdoor netball courts and is specifical ...

club from

Bungaree, Victoria Bungaree is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located west of the state capital, Melbourne and east of the regional centre of Ballarat, on the Western Freeway and in the Shire of Moorabool The Shire of Moorabool is a local governm ...

which competes in the

Central Highlands Football League The Central Highlands Football League is an Australian Rules Football League in the Ballarat Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, B ...

. The Demons are one of the founding members of the CHFL and most widely recognised through their best export, former St Kilda captain, Victorian representative and media personality

Danny Frawley Daniel Patrick Frawley (8 September 1963 – 9 September 2019) was an Australian rules football player, coach, administrator, commentator and media personality. He played 240 games for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football Leag ...

. The Demons play their home games at the Bungaree Recreation Reserve which underwent a full redevelopment in 2012, with the changeroom facility being named the Danny Frawley Pavilion. Bungaree emerged from a lean decade in the 2000s to play four preliminary finals in a row from 2012–15, culminating in their first premiership in 23 years in 2014 with a 9-goal thrashing of arch rivals Springbank. The Reserves were also able to break their 34-year drought with a comprehensive win over Waubra FC.

Premierships

Seniors- 1919, 1922, 1924, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1991, 2014 Reserves- 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 2014 U18- 1972, 1980, 1989, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2015 U15- 1988, 2005 bungareefnc.com.au/history

Champion Club

THE CHFL awards the Merv & Mary Howard Champion Club award at the conclusion of each home and away season to the club that has performed the best across 4 grades of football and 6 grades of netball. Bungaree have won the award on 10 occasions, double that of the next most successful club. CHFL Merv & Mary Howard Champion Club- 1979, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012

VFL/AFL players

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Maurice Frawley Maurice Gerard Frawley (5 May 1954 – 16 May 2009) was an Australian rock and country blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Biography Maurice Gerard Frawley was born on 5 May 1954, the son of Gerard Patrick and Eileen Marie Frawley, he grew u ...

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Danny Guinane Danny Guinane (18 May 1911 – 28 August 1992) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Guinane, a defender, came to Richmond from South Ballarat. He polled eight Brownlow Medal votes ...

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Maurice O'Keefe Maurice O'Keefe (born 22 January 1954) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). O'Keefe was from Bungaree near Ballarat and started his St Kilda career in 1977. A ...

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Book

* ''History of Football in the Ballarat District'' by John Stoward -

References

External links

* {{CHFNL Australian rules football clubs in Victoria (state) 1904 establishments in Australia Australian rules football clubs established in 1904