Blackburn Football Club
| Full name | Blackburn Football Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Panthers | ||
| Strip | Red & Black | ||
| Founded | 1890 | ||
| League | Eastern Football League | ||
| Ground | Morton Park | ||
| 2016 Coach | Kon Karavias | ||
| 2016 Captain | Anthony Fagan | ! Senior Premiership Years | 1980, 2002 |
| Junior Premierships | |||
| Junior Premiership Years | 2004 (U-12 B, U-14 B), 2005 (U-13 A), | ||
The Blackburn Football Club is an Australian rules football club located in Blackburn, Victoria. They play in Division 1 of the Eastern Football League. They are known as the Panthers or the Burners, and play their home games at Morton Park.
The Senior Club has a Senior Side, Reserve Side, Under 19 side and a Under 19 Development Side which is in conjunction with Whitehorse Pioneers.
Senior Coach - Kon Karavias, Reserves Coach - Alan Love, Under 19 Coach - Mat Eccles, Development Team Coach - Tony De Preu ... Gus MacLeod is the Clubs Head of Hydration
The club entered Division 1 of the EFL in 2003, having won the Division 2 Premiership in 2002. It has remained in Division 1 in the years since, and made the finals in 2011.
Blackburn's jumper is black with red stripes. The club's senior jumper changed in 2008, with a white patch added to the back of the jumper with a black number, similar in style to AFL club Hawthorn.
VFL/AFL Blackburn Products
- Jordan Lisle - Hawthorn, Brisbane Lions
- Tom Schneider - Hawthorn
- Bryan Wood - Richmond, Essendon
- Rod Appleton
- Ian Scrimshaw
- Daniel McKenzie - St Kilda Football Club
- Ben Griffiths (Richmond)
Theme Song
We're a happy team at Blackburn,
We're the Mighty Fighting 'Burns, ( 2,3,4 ).
We love our club and we play to win,
Riding the bumps with a grin, at Blackburn.
Come what may you'll find us striving,
Teamwork is the thing that counts ( 2,3,4)
All for one and one for all,
The way we play at Blackburn,
We are the Mighty Fighting 'Burns.
*(Sung to the tune of ''The Yankee Doodle Boy'', and similar to AFL club Hawthorn).