St Albans Football Club (WRFL)

The St Albans Football Club is an Australian rules football club based at Kings Park Reserve in Kings Park, a north-western suburb of Melbourne.

Founded in 1947, the club participated in the Western Region Football League until 2022, after which the club moved to the Essendon District Football League. To date, St Albans has won five Division One Premierships, the most recent being in 2001. They have also won 1 Division 2 Premiership.

St Albans currently has 7 Junior teams, ranging from Under 10s to Under 18s, two open age Female teams and two Senior Men's teams.

History

A public meeting was called to be held at the St Albans Fire Station in September 1946. The reason for this meeting was to form a Football Club, that is the St Albans Football Club as we know it today. Twenty-six people attended this meeting and Mr W E Perrett was elected as President for the first year. Moreover, Mr J Douglas and Mr S Taylor were appointed secretary and coach respectively. The club was to be located at Errington Reserve. Mr S Taylor and Mr A McPherson were elected as captain and vice captain respectively.

In March, St Albans FC was officially accepted into the Western Region Football League, which was at the time known as the Footscray District Football League. Competitive matches were to start on the 26th of the following month. Nevertheless, before the commencement of the league, St Albans opted to play a practice match against ICI from Deer Park, its first ever match.

In December 2022 the club transitioned across to the Essendon District Football League and will compete in the 2023 season in Division One.

Honours

Club

* Western Region Football League
** Division One (5): 1966, 1969, 1988, 1989, 2001
** Division Two (1): 1997

Individual

Best & Fairest

: 1947 R Priest
: 1949 S Taylor/A McPherson
: 1950 K Priest
: 1951 D McPherson
: 1958 G Haynes
: 1959 G Haynes
: 1960 G Haynes
: 1961 W Dawidowicz
: 1962 T McIntyre
: 1963 W Dawidowicz
: 1964 G Haynes
: 1965 F Uscinas
: 1966 I Sharp
: 1967 T Munday
: 1968 R Toby
: 1969 G Cameron
: 1970 F Van Leeuwen
: 1971 G Cameron
: 1972 J Stanecki
: 1973 N Farrell
: 1974 R Szwaj
: 1975 A Tansis
: 1976 R Szwaj
: 1977 R Bradley
: 1978 J Blyth
: 1979 J Blyth
: 1980 R Peterson
: 1981 J Blyth
: 1982 R Peterson
: 1983 R Peterson
: 1984 R Peterson
: 1985 L Foreman
: 1986 L Foreman
: 1987 D Templar
: 1988 S McGhie
: 1989 S McGhie
: 1990 S Haynes
: 1991 A Walsh
: 1992 P Mala
: 1993 S Millo
: 1994 J Fitzpatrick
: 1995 S Millo
: 1996 M Antonowicz
: 1997 A Fennessy
: 1998 M Antonowicz
: 1999 M Antonowicz
: 2000 J Skinner
: 2001 J Fitzpatrick
: 2002 A Ibrahim
: 2003 A Szwadiak
: 2004 D McFerran
: 2005 S Arena
: 2006 S Arena
: 2007 M Agius
: 2008 B Hollow
: 2009 T Jenkins
: 2010 T Jenkins
: 2011 S Hoare
: 2012 B Taylor
: 2013 L Baddeley
: 2014 J West
: 2015 M Quigley
: 2016 T Jenkins
: 2017 T Jenkins
: 2018 T Donoghue
: 2019 D Kovacevic

300 Game Players

: Joe Maziarz
: Rod Toby
: Paul Shanley
: Jeff Parker
: Rod Brown
: Michael Portelli
: Robert Paterson
: Wayne Duffy
: Joe Capelli
: Corey Bissett
: Mark Antonowicz
: Daniel McFerran
: Jason Fitzpatrick
: David Pettenon
: Simon Millo
: Aaron Edwards
: Travis Edwards
: Mark Magor
: Jim Vickens
: Joe Murphy
: Zammy Muhtari
: Brian O'Donovan
: Dale Marshall
: Adam Szwadiak
: Colin Baulch
: Rudi Jakavicius
: Peter Trimboli
: Craig Psaila

Team of the Century

External links

Official website

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Essendon District Football League
Australian rules football clubs in Melbourne
1947 establishments in Australia
Australian rules football clubs established in 1947
Sport in the City of Brimbank