Bacchus Marsh Football Club

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Bacchus Marsh
Full name Bacchus Marsh Football Club
Nickname the Cobras
Strip Black with Red and Yellow Vee
Founded 1979
Sport Australian rules football
League Ballarat Football League
First season
Ground Maddingley Park
Club song
President/Chair
Coach Dion Miles
Captain Tyson Shea
2007 10th of 10

Bacchus Marsh Football and Netball Club, is located in Bacchus Marsh and competes in the Ballarat Football League which is part of the Victorian Country Football League. The home ground of Bacchus Marsh is Maddingley Park, located to the south of Bacchus Marsh.

The club was originally two different clubs: the Bacchus Marsh Tigers who wore a black guernsey with a yellow strip going diagonally from top left to bottom right, and the Maddingley Spiders who wore a black guernsey with a red strip going diagonally from top left to bottom right. The two teams merged in 1979 to form Maddingley-Bacchus Marsh FC who now wear a black guernsey with two "v" shape strips, one red, one yellow starting at the top left and finishing on the top right. The team changed their name to the Bacchus Marsh FC in 1980

There have been a few great footballers to go through the club including, Fred Wooller, Sandy Talbot, Frank Pomeroy

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[edit] Premierships

  • Nil

[edit] Henderson Medal winners

1997 - Wayne Cracknell

[edit] Tony Lockett Medal winners

1987 - M.Scott (69 goals), 1990 - M.Scott (79), 1991 - R.Maguire (82), 1998 - Brendan Hehir (74), 2000 - Chris Stuldreier (93), 2001 - Chris Stuldreier (88)

[edit] Interesting Information

The Richmond Tigers, victory song, Tigerland, originated at the Bacchus Marsh Football Club and was adopted by Richmond in 1908 when it joined the VFL.[citation needed] Daniel Brown has been signed on for the 08 season

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