The Kyabram Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Bombers'', is an

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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 based in the town of

Kyabram Kyabram is a town in north central Victoria, Australia. Kyabram is located in the centre of a rich irrigation district in the Goulburn River Valley, north of Melbourne. It is the second-largest town in the Shire of Campaspe, situated between ...

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

. The club teams currently compete in the

Goulburn Valley Football League The Goulburn Valley Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia. It is a member of the Victorian Country Football League and has won the Victorian C ...

(GVFL). Kyabram was a foundation club in the

(GVFL) and has been one of the most dominant. Only the Shepparton Football Club have won more premierships. The club had a successful era the 1920s, when they won five GVFL premierships, including the Kyabram Reserves winning the senior football premiership in the Northern Goulburn Football Association in 1929. The club has produced many VFL/AFL footballers, including

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and

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. Kyabram's Chris Stuhldreier won the GVFL goal-kicking every season from 1991 to 1994, including a record setting 164 goals in 1993. Between 2016 and 2018 the club won an astounding 62 wins in a row. The sequence stopped at the 2018 Grand Final. The club was undefeated in 2019.

Football Premierships

;Seniors Reference:

GVFL – Morrison Medal winners

*J Cooper (1958, 1961) *C Stewart (1963) *

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(1964)? *P Gittos (1987) *B Gugliotti (1993) Reference:

VFL / AFL Players

The following footballers played with Kyabram prior to playing senior VFL / AFL football, with the year indicating their debut season. * 1904 – Tom Hawkins: South Melbourne * 1914 – Charlie Fisher: Carlton * 1919 – George Parkinson: Richmond * 1920 – Billy James: Richmond * 1920 –

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: Collingwood & Richmond * 1925 –

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: Carlton * 1955 –

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: Carlton * 1959 – Cliff Deacon: South Melbourne * 1960 –

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: Footscray * 1961 – Barry Bryant: Carlton * 1961 – Graeme Haslem: Hawthorn * 1965 – Bryan Pleitner: Footscray * 1966 –

: Richmond * 1966 –

: Melbourne * 1966 –

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: Footscray * 1966 –

Maurie Fowler Maurice John Fowler (10 August 1944 – 8 May 2017) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also played 120 games for the Kyabram Football Club. In 1967 he was cle ...

: Carlton * 1969 –

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: Melbourne * 1973 –

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: Melbourne * 1975 –

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: Melbourne * 1975 – John Sparks: Melbourne * 1976 –

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: Melbourne * 1979 –

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: Melbourne * 1982 –

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: Melbourne * 1982 – Stuart McKenzie: Melbourne * 1985 – Daryl Bourke: Melbourne * 1986 –

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: Melbourne * 1987 – Bradley Sparks: Melbourne * 1995 – Glen Coghlan: St. Kilda * 2001 – Kayne Pettifer: Richmond * 2005 –

: Richmond * 2014 – Nick Holman: Carlton & Gold Coast Suns

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