Lonsdale Football Club

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Lonsdale
Full name	Lonsdale Football Club
Nickname(s)	Bears
Strip	Yellow, Green
Founded	1979
Sport	Australian Rules Football
League	Southern Football League
Ground	Morphett Vale High School Oval, Morphett Vale
Club song	Suck More Piss

The Lonsdale Football Club was an Australian rules football club originally formed in 1979 as the Mawson Football Club, competing in the Southern Football League Division 2 competition.

Mawson were promoted to the SFL Division 1 competition for one season in 1988 before returning to the Division 2 competition the following season. Mawson changed its name to the Lonsdale Football Club in 1996 and won the last Division 2 premiership in 2001 before merging with the O’Sullivan Beach Football Club to form the O'Sullivan Beach-Lonsdale Football Club for the following season.^[1]

A-Grade Premierships

Southern Football League Division 2 (2)
- 1992, 2001

References

↑ Lines, Peter (1998). Encyclopedia of South Australian Country Football Clubs. Cowell, South Australia: Peter Lines. pp. 140, 151. ISBN 978-0-9804472-9-3.

v t e Southern Football League (South Australia)

Current Clubs:	Aldinga Brighton Districts and Old Scholars Christies Beach Cove Edwardstown Flagstaff Hill Hackham Happy Valley Marion Morphett Vale Morphettville Park Noarlunga O’Sullivan Beach-Lonsdale Port Noarlunga Reynella

Former Clubs:	Clarendon Hills United Kangarilla Lonsdale Macclesfield McLaren McLaren Flat McLaren Vale Meadows Mitchell Park Mount Compass Myponga Mount Bold Northern United O’Sullivan Beach Plympton Sellick’s Hill Willunga Yankalilla

Representative Side:	The Barbarians

Representative Competitions:	Pilmore Cup Lovelock Shield

Supporting Organisations:	Combined Southern Leagues Football Umpires Panel

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