Plympton Football Club

Plympton
Full name Plympton Football Club
Nickname Bulldogs
Sport Australian Rules Football
Founded 1937
League South Australian Amateur Football League
Home ground Plympton Park Memorial Recreation Ground, Plympton Park
Colours Red, Black
Anthem "A Bulldog For Me"
President Dean Skinner
Head coach Damien Miniverni

The Plympton Football Club is an Australian rules football club that was established in 1937, currently playing in the South Australian Amateur Football League, that initially played in the Glenelg District Football Association.[1]

A Plympton Football Club played in the Mid-Southern Football Association as early as 1921, but the current club is recognised as forming in 1937.[2]

Plympton remained in the Glenelg District Football Association, and its later incarnations until it folded at the end of the 1986 season, at that point known as the Southern Metropolitan Football League. In 1987 Plympton joined the Southern Football League Division 1 competition and proceeded to win three premierships in succession before shifting to the South Australian Football Association for the 1990 season. When the South Australian Football Association folded at the end of the 1995 season, they transferred to the South Australian Amateur Football League where they have competed since.

Plympton also fields junior teams in the Metro South Junior Football League.[3]

Plympton FC has produced a number of Australian Football League (AFL) players including Bryce Gibbs (Carlton), Cameron Hitchcock (Port Adelaide), Christian Howard (Western Bulldogs) and Patrick McCarthy (Carlton).[1][4]

Club song

A Bulldog for me

A Bulldog for me

If you're not a Bulldog you're not good for me

The Bulldogs stand tall

When the toughest will fall

'Cos The mighty red Bulldogs are the pride of them all

Previous Plympton FC logo

A-Grade Premierships

References

  1. 1 2 "History". Plympton Football Club. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  2. Bloch, Fred. "Plympton - Club History". South Australian Amateur Football League. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  3. "Plympton Football Club 2012". Metro South Junior Football League. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  4. "Metro South Drafted Players". Metro South Junior Football League. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  5. "SAAFL Senior Premierships 1911-2012 - Club Alphabetical". South Australian Amateur Football League. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  6. O'Loughlin, Stephen (12 September 2013). "SAAFL Division 4 - Dominant Bulldogs" (PDF). The Bounce: 7. Retrieved 2 October 2013.

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