St Kevin's Old Boys Football Club (SKOB) is an

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club based in the

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suburb of

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. The club is linked to St Kevin's College. As of 2024, SKOB's men's and women's teams both compete in the Premier Division of the

Victorian Amateur Football Association The Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) is the largest senior community Australian rules football competition in Victoria, Australia, Victoria. Founded in 1892, it consists of six senior divisions, ranging from Premier to Division 3 i ...

(VAFA) and the VAFA Women's (VAFAW) respectively.

History

St Kevin's Old Boys was founded in 1947 and joined the VAFA the same year, along with fellow new clubs

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and State Electricity Commission. Its first season was in C Section, however the club was relegated to D Section for the 1948 season. The club won its first premiership in 1952 with a victory in the D Section Grand Final, and returned to C Section in 1953. SKOB won its first senior Premier Division premiership in 2017, with a three-point victory over

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. In

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, SKOB went back-to-back, defeating Collegians by 5 points. Four members of the club's premiership side − Lachie Sullivan,

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, Tom Jok and

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− have since gone on to play in the

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(AFL). SKOB currently fields two women's teams, known as the SKOB Saints, which currently compete in the Premier Division and Division 4 of the VAFAW. The Saints were formed in 2016 and joined Division 3 of the

Victorian Women's Football League The Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) was the oldest and largest Australian rules football league for women in the world, consisting of 47 clubs from Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia across seven divisions with a total of over ...

(VWFL), playing finals in its first season. In

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, when the VWFL was disbanded, SKOB introduced a second women's team with both joining the newly-formed VAFA Women's.

Honours

Men's premierships

Women's premierships

References

{{VAFA Victorian Amateur Football Association clubs 1947 establishments in Australia Australian rules football clubs established in 1947 Australian rules football clubs in Melbourne Victorian Women's Football League clubs