Mitcham Football Club nicknamed the Tigers, 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 ...
team. It is based in the eastern suburbs of
Melbourne, Victoria
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung–Taungurung language, Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the St ...
, Australia and is part of the
Eastern Football League.
History
Mitcham’s history began when the
Box Hill Reporter
The ''Box Hill Reporter'' was a weekly newspaper for the Box Hill region of Victoria, Australia. Exact dates of the newspaper's production are unconfirmed, but are estimated as 1889–1918.
It has since been superseded by the local newspaper
...
newspaper sponsored a football competition in 1903. Mitch being a founding club won the first and second premierships. More were to follow before Mitcham left for more competition in the Eastern Suburban FL in the 1930s.
They had some success in 1947 but by the 1955 they had decided to play closer to home and joined the Croydon Ferntree Gully FL.
They were a founding club for the
Eastern District Football League in 1962. Most of their time has been spend in 2nd division.
References
External links
Official club websiteOfficial Eastern Football League site{{EFL
Eastern Football League (Australia) clubs
Australian rules football clubs established in 1888
1888 establishments in Australia
Sport in the City of Whitehorse