Castlemaine Football Club

Castlemaine
Full name	Castlemaine Football Club
Nickname	Magpies
Sport	Australian Rules Football
Founded	1859
League	Bendigo Football League
Home ground	Camp Reserve Sports Oval, Castlemaine
Colours	Black, White

Castlemaine Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia and is currently a member of the Bendigo Football League.

The club is notable for several reasons. Formed in 1859, it is the second oldest documented football club in Australia after the Melbourne Football Club and it has produced a large number of notable Australian rules footballers.

Like many country football clubs, Castlemaine operates as a football and netball club.

Players wear vertical black and white stripes and goes by the nickname "Magpies".

History

The Castlemaine Football Club was formed on June 15, 1859 at the Supreme Court Hotel and chaired by T Butterworth.^[1] Castlemaine played its first match on June 22, 1859 on the Cricket Ground Barkers Creek.^[2]

The club was formed in an era before codified rules organised competition, but according to some sources, including Graeme Atkinson, "football" was popular in the goldfields region. Records for the foundation date was discovered in 2007 which rewrote history as many had previously believed the Geelong Football Club to be formed earlier.^[3]

Without a league to participate in, the club was an irregular competitor during its first decade.

The original uniform was a white cap with royal-blue Maltese cross.

In 1925, Castlemaine joined the Bendigo Football League.

Alumni

Castlemaine Players in the VFL/AFL

Player	VFL/AFL Clubs	VFL/AFL Career
Percy Bentley	Richmond	1925–40
Jack Showell	St Kilda	1936–38
Jack Titus	Richmond	1926–43
Ron Barassi, Sr.	Melbourne	1936–1940
Graeme Miniham	St Kilda	1953–59
Bud Annand	St Kilda	1956–62
Brian McMillan	Richmond	1962–64
Kevin Delmenico	Footscray	1966–70
Robert Thompson	Essendon	1968–71
Peter Hall	Carlton	1971
Peter Fyffe	Carlton	1970–73
Mark Cross	Footscray	1974
Warren Jones	Carlton, St Kilda	1978–85
Lazar Vidovic	St Kilda	1989–97
Steven Oliver	Carlton	1992–94
Paul Starbuck	Sydney, Carlton	1990
Rod Keogh	Melbourne, St Kilda	1990–98
Tom Kavanagh	Melbourne, Fitzroy	1993–94
Heath Culpitt	Carlton	1999–2001
Dustin Martin	Richmond	2010–

References

External links

Castlemaine Football Club

Victorian Football League clubs

Current clubs	Box Hill Casey Scorpions Coburg Collingwood reserves Essendon reserves Footscray reserves Frankston Geelong reserves North Ballarat Northern Blues Port Melbourne Richmond reserves Sandringham Werribee Williamstown

Former clubs	Albert Park Ballarat Ballarat Imperial Barwon Berwick Bendigo Brighton/Caulfield Brunswick Camberwell Carlton Carlton reserves Collingwood Dandenong East Melbourne Essendon Essendon 'A' Fitzroy Footscray Geelong Geelong 'A' Geelong West Gold Coast Hawthorn Hotham/North Melbourne Kilsyth Melbourne Melbourne City Moorabbin Mordialloc Murray Kangaroos Northcote Oakleigh Prahran Richmond St Kilda St Kilda reserves South Ballarat South Melbourne South Williamstown Sunshine Tasmanian Devils Traralgon University Waverley West Melbourne Yarraville

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