St Albans Football Club (WRFL)

St Albans
Names
Full name St Albans Football Club
Nickname(s) The Saints
Club details
Founded 1947
Colours      Blue and      Red
Competition Western Region Football League
Chairman Vern Ryan
Coach Marcus Barclay
Captain(s) Tim Jenkins
Ground(s) Kings Park Reserve
Other information
Official website www.stalbansfc.com.au

The St Albans Football Club is an Australian rules football club based at the Kings Park Reserve in St Albans, a north-west suburb of Melbourne.

Founded in 1947, the club had been participating in the Western Region Football League. To date, St Albans won five Division One Premiers and the most recent success being was in 2001. St Albans also claimed the Division Two Premier once.

St Albans currently have 7 Junior teams, ranging from Under 10's to Under 18's, two open age Female teams and two Senior Men's teams.

Club Formation

A public meeting was called to be held at the St Albans Fire Station in September 1946. The reason for this meeting was to form a Football Club, that is the St Albans Football Club as we know it today. Twenty six people attended this meeting and Mr W E Perrett was elected as President for the first year. Moreover Mr J Douglas and Mr S Taylor were appointed secretary and coach respectively. The club was to be located at Errington Reserve. Mr S Taylor and Mr A McPherson were elected as captain and vice captain respectively.

In March, St Albans FC were officially accepted in the Western Region Football League, which at that time was known as Footscray District Football League. Competitive matches of the league were to start on the 26th of April of the following month. Nevertheless, before the commencement of the league, St Albans opted to play a practise match against ICI from Deer Park, which was actually St Albans first ever.

Honours

Division One Premierships

Division Two Premiership

Individual Awards and Honours

Best & Fairest

1947 R Priest
1949 S Taylor/A McPherson
1950 K Priest
1951 D McPherson
1958 G Haynes
1959 G Haynes
1960 G Haynes
1961 W Dawidowicz
1962 T McIntyre
1963 W Dawidowicz
1964 G Haynes
1965 F Uscinas
1966 I Sharp
1967 T Munday
1968 R Toby
1969 G Cameron
1970 F van Leeuwen
1971 G Cameron
1972 J Stanecki
1973 N Farrell
1974 R Szwaj
1975 A Tansis
1976 R Szwaj
1977 R Bradley
1978 J Blyth
1979 J Blyth
1980 R Peterson
1981 J Blyth
1982 R Peterson
1983 R Peterson
1984 R Peterson
1985 L Foreman
1986 L Foreman
1987 D Templar
1988 S McGhie
1989 S McGhie
1990 S Haynes
1991 A Walsh
1992 P Mala
1993 S Millo
1994 J Fitzpatrick
1995 S Millo
1996 M Antonowicz
1997 A Fennessy
1998 M Antonowicz
1999 M Antonowicz
2000 J Skinner
2001 J Fitzpatrick
2002 A Ibrahim
2003 A Szwadiak
2004 D McFerran
2005 S Aerna
2006 S Aerna
2007 M Agius
2008 B Hollow
2009 T Jenkins
2010 T Jenkins
2011 S Hoare
2012 B Taylor
2013 L Baddeley

300 Game Players

Joe Maziarz
Rod Toby
Paul Shanley
Jeff Parker
Rod Brown
Michael Portelli
Robert Paterson
Wayne Duffy
Joe Capelli
Corey Bissett
Mark Antonowicz
Daniel McFerran
Jason Fitzpatrick
David Pettenon
Simon Millo
Aaron Edwards
Mark Magor
Jim Vickens
Joe Murphy
Zammy Muhtani
Brian O'Donovan
Dale Marshall
Adam Szwadiak
Colin Baulch
Rudi Jakavicius
Peter Trimboli

Team of the Century

St Albans Team of the Century
B: R Priest R Jimenez M McBean
HB: S Millo J Maziarz J Fitzpatrick
C: J Blythe C Missen L Dickson
HF: P Mala T Munday D Stephens
F: M Antonowicz A Priest D Dawidowicz
Foll: R Peterson S McGhie (Captain) G Haynes
Int: S Taylor B Szwaj G Cameron
S Haynes
Coach: G Haynes

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