North Geelong Football Club
The North Geelong Football Club is a football and netball club that is located in Geelong. The club was established in 1876, and is currently in the Geelong & District Football League (GDFL). The club's colours are black and white, with a magpie as their logo. Their home shorts are black with black socks.They have won a total of 17 senior premierships, 11 reserves premierships and 7 U18s premierships. Their home ground is Osborne Park in Swinbourne Street, North Geelong.
The club dominated the league in 1950s, winning seven premierships in a row and eight premierships in ten years between 1949–1958. In 1959, the club considered joining the Victorian Football Association, which was expanding at the time, and the club approached the VFA to enquire about minimum home ground requirements and the like; but it never ultimately joined.[1]
Club honours
Senior premierships
- 18 - 1925, 1930, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954c, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1988c, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2002, 2013
Reserves Premierships:
- 13 - 1949, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1988c, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Under-18 Premierships:
- 12 - 1939, 1944, 1949, 1952, 1996c, 1997, 2005c, 2006, 2009c, 2010c, 2011, 2014
c denotes champions
References
- ↑ Scot Palmer (6 July 1959). "VFA move by North Geelong". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne, VIC. p. 33.