The Port Fairy Football Club, nicknamed the ''Seagulls'', is an

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and

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club based in the coastal town of

Port Fairy Port Fairy (historically known as Belfast) is a coastal town in south-western Victoria, Australia. It lies on the Princes Highway in the Shire of Moyne, west of Warrnambool and west of Melbourne, at the point where the Moyne River enters the S ...

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. The club teams currently compete in the

Hampden Football Netball League The Hampden Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league based in South-Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns along or near the Princes Highway from Camperdown to Portland. The league is a major countr ...

, with its football squad having played there since 1949.

Premierships

* Warrnambool District Football Association (1900–1923) ** 1902, 1904, 1922 * Western District Football League (1924–1933) ** 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929 * Port Fairy Football League (1924–1948) ** 1924, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1946, 1947 *

(1949–current) **1958

Maskell Medallists

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1958 & 1959 *Gary Hiscox 1967 *Les Gibb 1969 *Kevin Leske 1975 *

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 win ...

1984 *Michael Taylor 1986

Notable players

VFL/AFL players recruited from Port Fairy include: * Scott Crow (Hawthorn/Collingwood) * Ted Llewellyn (Geelong/North Melbourne) * Noel Mugavin (Fitzroy/Richmond) * Jim Warren (Geelong)

Bibliography

* ''Evergreen Hampden: The Hampden Football League and its people, 1930-1976'' by Fred Bond & Don Grossman, 1979 – * ''History of Football in the Western District'' by John Stoward – Aussie Footy Books, 2008 –

References

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