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
President	Gus Jimenez
Coach	Fabian Carelli
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 Kings Park, 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

1966 St Albans 11.22.88 d Kingsville 8.9.57
1969 St Albans 13.6.84 d Albion 11.16.82
1988 St Albans 10.4.64 d Albion 7.4.46
1989 St Albans 11.12.78 d Deer Park 5.16.46
2001 St Albans 15.19.109 d Hoppers Crossing 10.7.67

Division Two Premiership

1997 St Albans 15.15.105 d North Footscray 9.9.63

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 Arena 2006 S Arena 2007 M Agius 2008 B Hollow 2009 T Jenkins 2010 T Jenkins 2011 S Hoare 2012 B Taylor 2013 L Baddeley 2014 J West 2015 M Quigley

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 Muhtari Brian O'Donovan Dale Marshall Adam Szwadiak Colin Baulch Rudi Jakavicius Peter Trimboli Craig Psaila

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

External links

Official Website of the St Albans Football Club

Clubs in the Western Region Football League

Albanvale Albion Altona Braybrook Caroline Springs Deer Park Glenorden Hoppers Crossing Laverton Magpies Manor Lakes Newport Power North Footscray North Sunshine Parkside Sanctuary Lakes Spotswood St Albans Sunshine Sunshine Heights Tarneit Werribee Districts West Footscray Wyndham Suns Wyndhamvale Yarraville Seddon

Australian rules football in Victoria

Representative side	Victoria

Governing bodies	AFL Victoria (metropolitan) AFL Victoria Country (country)

Professional clubs	Carlton Collingwood Essendon Geelong Hawthorn Melbourne North Melbourne Richmond St Kilda Western Bulldogs

Statewide leagues	Victorian Football League TAC Cup (under-18) List of Australian rules football competitions in Victoria

Metropolitan leagues	Eastern Essendon District Northern Riddell District Southern VAFA Western Region

Regional leagues (major)	Ballarat Bellarine Bendigo Central Murray Geelong Gippsland Goulburn Valley Hampden Mornington Peninsula Nepean Murray North Central Ovens & Murray Sunraysia Wimmera Yarra Valley Mountain

Regional leagues (district)	Alberton Central Highlands Colac & District East Gippsland Ellinbank & District Geelong & District Golden Rivers Heathcote Horsham & District Kowree-Naracoorte-Tatiara Kyabram & District Loddon Valley Mallee Maryborough Castlemaine Mid Gippsland Millewa Mininera North Gippsland Omeo & District Ovens & King Picola & District South East South West Tallangatta Upper Murray Warrnambool Western Border

Women's leagues	Victorian Women's Football League AFL Victoria Youth Girls Competition

Defunct leagues	Benalla (1946-2009) Federal (1909-1981) Lexton Plains (1999-2010) Riviera (1986-2003) List of former Australian rules football competitions in Victoria

Principal venues	Melbourne Cricket Ground Docklands Stadium Princes Park Kardinia Park

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