Mitchell Park Football Club

Mitchell Park
Full name Mitchell Park Football Club
Nickname Lions
Sport Australian Rules Football
Founded 1968
League South Australian Amateur Football League
Home ground Mitchell Park Oval, Mitchell Park
Colours Green, White, Red
Anthem "Are We? Are We? Are We?"
President Ken Kelsall
Head coach Mark Harrison

The Mitchell Park Football Club is an Australian rules football club that was established in 1968, currently playing in the South Australian Amateur Football League, that initially played in the Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association.[1]

Mitchell Park remained in the Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association, later the Southern Metropolitan Football League, until it folded at the end of the 1986 season.[1] Mitchell Park joined the South Australian Football Association in 1987 and remained in that competition they transferred to the Southern Football League Division 1 competition in 1994. Mitchell Park lasted four seasons in the Division 1 competition before they were relegated to the Division 2 competition in 1998.[2]

In 2001, Mitchell Park left the Southern Football League and joined the South Australian Amateur Football League Division 6 competition and have drifted between Divisions 5, 6 and 7 in the years since.[1][3]

Mitchell Park also fields junior teams in the Metro South Junior Football League.[4]

A-Grade Premierships

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "History". Mitchell Park Football Club. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  2. ↑ Whitford, Jane (23 March 2011). "Seven-year Stint". Southern Times Messenger. p. 8. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Clubs - Mitchell Park". South Australian Amateur Football League. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "Clubs - Mitchell Park". Metro South Junior Football League. Retrieved 17 July 2013.

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