South Bunbury Football Club is a semi-professional
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 ...
club based in
South Bunbury, Western Australia. The club plays in the
South West Football League. Since being founded in 1897 the club has won 45 premierships and has been a runner-up 24 times.
Since joining the SWFL in 1957 they have won 15 premierships.
History
The South Bunbury club was founded in May 1897 at a meeting at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Bunbury.
South Bunbury picked up the nickname Tigers after the relative inaccessibility and perceived wildness of the South Bunbury area around the turn of the 20th century.
Club records
*Total League premierships: 45 (1898, 1899, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1993, 2002, 2016)
*Reserves premierships: 28 (1921, 1922, 1923, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1974, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1993, 2007, 2017, 2022)
*Colts premierships: 6 (1964, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 2005)
* Womens premierships : 3 (2019,2020,2021)
*Most career games: 277, Ian Cahill
*Most goals in a game: 14, Adam Matson, 2000
*Most goals in a season: 87 Don Aldersea, 1967
Notable players
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Syd Jackson
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Adam Hunter
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Alan Cransberg
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Trevor Nisbett
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Phillip Matson
Phillip Henry Matson (22 October 1884 – 13 June 1928) was a record-breaking swimmer, and both a highly successful player and coach of Australian rules football in the early 20th century, chiefly in Western Australia.
Family
The son of Georg ...
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Leon Baker
Leon Baker (born 17 August 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) during the 1980s.
Baker started playing senior football quite l ...
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Michael Warren
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David Hollins
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Darren Kowal
Darren Kowal (born 18 June 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s.
A member of Claremont's 1991 West Australian Football League premiership team, Kowal ...
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Katie-Jayne Grieve
References
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Australian rules football clubs established in 1897
Australian rules football clubs in Western Australia
South West Football League clubs
1897 establishments in Australia
Sport in Bunbury, Western Australia