The McLaren Flat Football Club was 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 ...

originally formed as the Hillside Football Club in 1903 playing in the Southern Football Association. The Hillside club was named after "Hilside", a farm owned by Mr Fred Wilson of McLaren Vale, one President of the Southern Football Association. Hillside was renamed McLaren Flat in 1946 and remained in the

Southern Football League The Southern League is a men's football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from the South and Midlands of England. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English fo ...

until the end of the 1997 season, when they merged with the

McLaren Vale Football Club The McLaren Vale Football Club was an Australian rules football club that was an inaugural member of the Southern Football Association in 1886. McLaren competed in the Southern Football League until the end of the 1997 season, when they merge ...

and McLaren Districts Junior Football Club to form the

McLaren Football Club The McLaren Football Club is an Australian rules football club formed in 1998 as a merger of the McLaren Flat Football Club, McLaren Vale Football Club and McLaren Districts Junior Football Club. McLaren started in the Southern Football League ...

A-Grade Premierships

* Southern Football Association A-Grade (6) ** 1933, 1935, 1937 ''undefeated'', 1939 ''undefeated'', 1946, 1947 *

Division 1 (2) ** 1966, 1976 *

Division 2 (3) ** 1983, 1988, 1989

Significant Players

Sturt champions

Paul Bagshaw Paul Lynton Bagshaw (born 22 August 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1960s and 1970s. Bagshaw played 360 games for the Double Blues and 14 for So ...

and

Tony Burgan Anthony Burgan (born 28 March 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). When Burgan started his career at Sturt in 1967, the club were the r ...

were both recruited from McLaren Flat.

References

{{Southern Football League (South Australia) Clubs Australian rules football clubs in South Australia 1903 establishments in Australia Australian rules football clubs established in 1903 1997 disestablishments in Australia Australian rules football clubs disestablished in 1997