Port Melbourne Colts Football Club

Port Melbourne Colts
Names
Full name	Port Melbourne Colts Football Club
Nickname(s)	Colts
Club details
Colours	Red Blue
Competition	SNFL since 2016
Premierships	1990, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006
Ground(s)	JL Murphy Reserve, Port Melbourne^[1]

The Port Melbourne Colts Football Club is an Australian rules football club which will compete in the Southern Football League (Victoria) from 2016.^[2]

History

The Club first came into being in 1957.

It was put together by three men, Alex James, Brian " Moppa " McBroom and John Berti. It all started when a group of young men had been playing in the YCW competition, at under 18 level, and having won the Premiership, wanted to stay together after they turned 18.

They then decided to play for a club named, Middle Park YCW, which in fact was the first year of our Club, it was called Middle Park Colts. As just about everyone who played for the team came from Port Melbourne the name was changed in 1958 to Port Colts, and the team commenced to playing at The Lagoon Oval in Graham Street, where we it remained for several years, until finally moving to our present home at Murphy Reserve in the late 60's.

The club originally played in the Sunday Suburban Football League, then the Melbourne Amateur Sunday Football Association. With the demise of the local football Sunday competitions, the Club turned to Saturdays and entered the Metropolitan Football League in 1969, where it remained for 6 years.

The Club then went into the Southern Football League for a few years, then to the Western Suburban League, which then merged with our present competition which was called the Footscray District League at the time, and is now the Western Region Football League.

The Club originally started with just the one open-age team, until 1972, when the Reserves were added, and then in 1975 the juniors commenced, and have continued to the present day, we now have junior teams from under tens through to senior level.

Competitions

Sunday Suburban Football League 1957-1960
Melbourne Amateur Sunday Football Association 1961-1968
Metropolitan Football League 1969-1974
South East Suburban Football League 1975-1980
West Suburban Football League 1981-1983
Footscray District League 1984-1999
Western Region Football League 2000-2015^[3]
Southern Football Netball League 2016-

Premierships

Sunday Suburban = 1960
Metropolitan = 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
South East Suburban = 1975 (Division 2)
West Suburban = 1981 (Division 2)
Footscray District/Western Region Div 1 = 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006
Div 2 = 1990

References

External links

Books

History of the WRFL/FDFL – Kevin Hillier - - ISBN 9781863356015
History of football in Melbourne's north west - John Stoward - ISBN 9780980592924

Clubs in the Southern Football League (Victoria)

First Division	Bentleigh Cheltenham Clayton Dingley East Brighton East Malvern Heatherton Oakleigh Districts St Kilda City St Pauls East Bentleigh

Second Division	Black Rock Caulfield Chelsea Heights Hampton Highett Keysborough Mordialloc Murrumbeena Port Melbourne Colts Springvale Districts

Third Division	Ashwood Carrum Patterson Lakes Dandenong Doveton Endeavour Hills Hallam Lyndale Lyndhurst Moorabbin Kangaroos Mount Waverley Sandown South Yarra

Australian rules football in Australia

National governing bodies	AFL Commission Australian Amateur Football Council Women's Football Australia

By state or territory	Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia (Goldfields)

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

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, February 12, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.