Zillmere Eagles Australian Football Club

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**Zillmere Eagles**

Full name	Zillmere Eagles Football Club
Nickname	Eagles
Strip	Light blue with yellow insignia.
Founded	1923
Sport	Australian rules football
League	Queensland State League
Ground	O'Callaghan Park, Zillmere
Club song	'
President/Chair
Coach	Murray Davis
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2006	Runner-Up

Zillmere Eagles Australian Football Club (formerly Windsor-Zillmere, North Brisbane and Northern Eagles) is a Brisbane-based club competing in the AFL Queensland Australian rules football competition.

The Windsor-Zillmere club formed from the merger of neighbouring Windsor and Zillmere Football Clubs in 1962.

Sandgate merged with the club to form North Brisbane in 1991.

The Northern Eagles were formed in 1997, and were renamed Zillmere Eagles in 2005.

In recent years, the club has produced such AFL players as: Cheynee Stiller, Josh Drummond, Jamie Charman, Robert Copeland and Danny Dickfos. Of the current playing group, Ben Warren and Daniel Dzufer appear to be future AFL stars.

[edit] Premierships

AFL Queensland

1929
1930
1932
1933
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1947
1949
1950
1951
1975
1976
1981
1988
1995

[edit] Grogan Medallists

The Grogan Medal is awarded to the best and fairest player in an AFLQ season.

Dick Parton 1949
Robin Hull 1967
Terry Weller 1969
Barry Karklis 1980
Craig Brittain 1988
Matty Payne 2006

[edit] External links

Clubs in the AFL Queensland State League
Division 1	Broadbeach \| Labrador \| Morningside \| Mt Gravatt \| Redlands \| Southport \| Suncoast Lions \| Northern Eagles
Division 2	Aspley Hornets \| Burleigh Bombers \| Coolangatta Tweed Heads \| Maroochy North Shore \| Mayne \| Noosa \| Palm Beach Currumbin \| Sandgate \| Surfers Paradise \| Western Magpies \| Wilston Grange