Pennant Hills Demons AFC

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Pennant Hills Demons is an Australian rules football club competing in the Sydney AFL league and based out of the Sydney suburb of Pennant Hills, New South Wales. Their home ground is Ern Holmes Oval.

[edit] History

The club formed in 1971. They were promoted to the top Sydney grade, the SFL (now Sydney AFL Premier Division) in 1977. The club has twice won the premiership. Their first was in 2000, when they defeated North Shore 15.12 (102) to 12.7 (79) at Macquarie Uni. Their second was in 2006, in driving rain on a quagmire at Henson Park; when the Demons scored 8 behinds in a row, all of them on the run, to come from 6 points down to defeat the previously undefeated East Coast Eagles by 2 points. Final scores Pennant Hills 5.20 (50) d East Coast 7.6 (48).

[edit] Famous players

The club produced Lenny Hayes for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League. Mark McVeigh also played for Pennant Hills before being drafted by Essendon Football Club.

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Clubs in the Sydney AFL
Premier Division	Balmain \| Campbelltown \| East Coast \| North Shore \| Pennant Hills \| St George \| UNSW-Eastern Suburbs \| Western Suburbs \| Wollongong
Sydney Football Association	Holroyd-Parramatta \| Macquarie University \| Manly-Warringah \|Penrith \| South-West Sydney \| Southern \| Sydney University \| University of Technology Sydney \| St Clair