The Sale Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Magpies'', is an Australian rules football and

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club based in Sale,

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and are based at the Sale Oval. The club teams compete in the Gippsland Football Netball League (GFNL).

History

Founded in 1877, Sale began playing official competitive football in 1889 when they joined the Gippsland Football Association, as a junior side. In 1900, the club entered the senior competition and were premiers for the first time the following year. One of the greatest players produced by the club,

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winner

Norman Ware Norman Ware (5 March 1911 – 26 August 2003) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A scrupulously fair, clever and unusually pacy ruckman for Footscray, Ware is the only captain-coach to have won the Bro ...

, came to Footscray from Sale in the 1930s. Sale were a foundation member of the Latrobe Valley Football League in 1954. They were the dominant team in the early years of the competition, with four premierships in the first six seasons. More recently, Sale defeated Maffra to win the 2012 grand final.

Football Premierships

;Seniors * Payne Challenge Cup **1889 * Gippsland & Feilchenfeld Cup **1892 * Gippsland Football Association / League (10) ** 1901?, 1911, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1949, 1950, 1953 * Latrobe Valley Football League (8) ** 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1986 * West Gippsland Latrobe Football League (1) ** 2008 *

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(1) ** 2012

Club records

Individual

Most games *Jack Schuback – 400+ Most Best & Fairest *Shane Fyfe – 5 Most goals in a game *

Shane Loveless Shane Loveless (born 15 November 1958) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Loveless is best known as a prolific full-forward in country football, mostly for Victoria clubs ...

– 15 (vs Churchill in 1987) Most goals in a season *

– 140 (1987)

Team

Highest score *39.20 (254) (versus Moe in 1997)

Football League best and Fairest Winners

;Gippsland FL ; Trood Award *1935 - Arthur Davidson *1936 - Jack Collins *1946 - Leo Brennan (Sale Greens) *1952 - Bob Mason ;La Trobe Valley FNL ; Trood Award / Rodda Medal *1954 – Bob Mason *1955 – Bob Mason *1957 – John Nix ;

; Trood Award / Rodda Medal *2009 –

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*2012 – Luke Collins *2017 - Kane Martin

Coaches

VFL / AFL Players

The following footballers played with Sale FC before making their senior VFL / AFL football debut. *1906 - Robert Michael - Collingwood *1911 - Vic Trood - University *1919 -

Stewart McLatchie Stewart McLatchie, MM (19 August 1896 – 31 January 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Military service McLatchie, a farmer from Sale, fought in World War I ...

- Carlton *1926 - Ed Ryan - Fitzroy *1930 -

Wally Ware Walter Leslie Ware (19 March 1906 – 15 January 1994) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Originally from Sale, Victoria, his younger brother Norman Ware, played and coached F ...

- Hawthorn *1932 - Harvey Johnson - Hawthorn *1932 -

- Footscray *1945 - Jack Mitchell - Melbourne *1939 - Arthur Davidson - Sale *1961 - Ian Collins - Carlton *1980 - Andrew Pollett - Footscray *1994 - Stuart Anderson - North Melbourne *2003 - Jacob Schuback - Adelaide *2006 -

Scott Pendlebury Scott Pendlebury (born 7 January 1988) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He has served as the Collingwood captain since the 2014 season. In round ...

- Collingwood

References

External links

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* Gippsland FNL Best & Fairest Winners
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