Edwardstown Football Club

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Edwardstown
  • Edwardstown FC Logo.jpg
Full name Edwardstown Football Club
Nickname(s) Towns
Strip Navy Blue, Light Blue
Founded 1919
Sport Australian Rules Football
League Southern Football League
Ground Edwardstown Memorial Recreation Ground
President John Shaw
Coach Ben Porter
Captain Colby Blyth & Aaron Parsons

The Edwardstown Football Club is an Australian rules football club first formed in 1919. In 1938, Edwardstown merged with the Black Forest Football Club from the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association but retained the name Edwardstown. For much of the first 60 years of its existence, the Edwardstown Football Club competed in the Glenelg-South Adelaide District Football League (previously known as the Glenelg-South-West District Football Association and the Mid-Southern Football Association), except for two seasons spent in the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association (1934–35).

In 1978, Edwardstown was a key player in the establishment of the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), a semi-professional league based around the stronger clubs of the former Norwood-North Football Association and some other strong metropolitan clubs. Edwardstown won four premierships during the 18 years that the SAFA completion ran. When SAFA folded at the end of the 1995 season, Edwardstown transferred to the South Australian Amateur Football League P1 competition. In 2009, Edwardstown changed leagues once again, with their Senior teams shifting to the Southern Football League.[1]

In 2012, Edwardstown attempted to shift its junior teams from the Metro South Junior Football League (MSJFL) to the Southern Football League, resulting in a breakaway group setting up a separate football club, the Edwardstown Junior Sports Club, in direct competition to the Edwardstown FC, drawing the majority of junior players from them and replacing them in the MSJFL.[2][3][4]

The Edwardstown FC continues to field teams in Senior grades, and one Junior grade (U/18) in the Southern Football League.

Edwardstown FC has produced a number of Australian Football League (AFL) players including Hamish Hartlett (Port Adelaide), Danyle Pearce (Fremantle, Port Adelaide), Jordan Russell (Collingwood, Carlton) and Adam Hartlett (Carlton).[5]

A-Grade Premierships

References

  1. ↑ "Club History". Edwardstown Football Club Inc. Retrieved 26 May 2013. 
  2. ↑ Petersen, Holly (28 September 2012). "Edwardstown Football Club in juniors dispute". Guardian Messenger. Retrieved 26 May 2013. 
  3. ↑ Schultz, Duane (11 February 2013). "Edwardstown Football Club split on juniors". Guardian Messenger. Retrieved 26 May 2013. 
  4. ↑ Adams, Kara (5 June 2013). "Juniors Love New Club - Players All Set to Kick Off Season". Guardian Messenger. p. 13. Retrieved 5 June 2013. 
  5. ↑ "SFL to AFL". Southern Football League. Retrieved 22 May 2013. 
  6. ↑ "Premiership Winners". South Australian Amateur Football League. Retrieved 26 May 2013. 

External links

Current Clubs:
Former Clubs:
Representative Side:
  • The Barbarians
Representative Competitions:
Supporting Organisations:
  • Combined Southern Leagues Football Umpires Panel
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