Melton Football Netball Club
| Melton | ||
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| Names | ||
| Full name | Melton Football Netball Club | |
| Nickname(s) | Bloods | |
| Club details | ||
| Founded | 1879 | |
| Colours | ||
| Competition | Ballarat Football League | |
| Premierships | (19): 1913, 1914, 1919, 1921, 1922, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1963, 1973, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2022 | |
| Ground(s) | McPhersons Park | |
| Uniforms | ||
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The Melton Football Netball Club, nicknamed The Bloods, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the Victorian town of Melton.[1]
The football team currently plays in the Ballarat Football League.
History[edit]
Melton Football Club was formed in 1879 when it was known as the Bloods, playing in the Melton and Bacchus Marsh District Football League where the club was successful winning ten premierships between 1913 and 1963.
Melton moved into the Riddell District Football League in 1973.
Upon entering the Riddell District Football League in 1973 Melton won the senior football premiership in its first year.
With the depth of football standard in the RDFL on the decline, together with considerable opposition from former second division clubs on the formation of one division, the club voted to make the move to the highly rated Ballarat Football League with Sunbury, Darley and Melton South clubs for the commencement of the 1997 playing season.
The club has won three BFL premierships.
Football Premierships[edit]
- Seniors
- Ballarat Football League
- 2000, 2001, 2005, 2022
- Riddell District Football League
- 1973, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986
- Bacchus Marsh Football League
- 1963 - Melton: 11.15 - 81 d Darley: 9.11 - 65[2]
- Bacchus Marsh & Melton District Football Association
- 1935 - Melton: 15.13 - 103 d Darley: 14.7 - 91[3]
- Bacchus Marsh District Football Association
- 1913 - Melton: 8.16 - 64 d Bacchus Marsh: 3.3 - 21[4]
- 1914 - Melton: 10.14 - 74 d Bacchus Marsh: 6.7 - 43[5]
- 1915 - Season abandoned in July 1915 due to World War One. Melton were on top of the ladder.[6]
- 1916, 1917, 1918.[citation needed] There appears to be no evidence in the Melton Express newspaper or the Bacchus Marsh Express newspaper of any official football competition in and around the Bacchus Marsh and Melton area between 1916 and 1918.
- 1919 - Melton: 5.7 - 37 d Bacchus Marsh: 3.4 - 22[7][8][9]
- 1921 - Melton: 4.7 - 31 d Bacchus Marsh: 2.9 - 21[10]
- 1922 - Melton: 5.9 - 39 d Darley: 1.6 - 12[11]
- 1929 - Melton: 9.13 - 67 d Toolern Vale Coimadal: 6.6 - 42[12]
- 1930 - Melton: 6.11 - 47 d Toolern Vale Coimadal: 5.8 - 38[13]
- 1931 - Melton: 7.11 - 53 d Rockbank: 7.10 - 52[14][15]
Football League Best & Fairest Awards[edit]
- Seniors
Bibliography[edit]
- History of Football in the Ballarat District, John Stoward, ISBN 978-0-9805929-0-0
References[edit]
- ^ "Club History - Melton Football Club Incorporated - Fox Sports Pulse". Sportingpulse.com. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "1963 - Country Football Scores". Google. The Age. 16 September 1963. p. 17. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "1935 - MELTON WREST PREMIERSHIP FROM DARLEY". Melton Express (Vic. : 1915 - 1943). 14 September 1935. p. 5. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "1914 - Football". The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic). 23 August 1914. p. 3. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ "1914 - Football: Country Matches". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic). 31 August 1914. p. 5. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ "1915 - Football". The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic). 24 July 1915. p. 2. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ "1919 - Football". Melton Express (Vic. : 1915 - 1943). 4 October 1919. p. 3. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "1919 - Melton". The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1866 - 1943). 11 October 1919. p. 2. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "1919 - Football". Melton Express (Vic. : 1915 - 1943). 11 October 1919. p. 3. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "1921 - Football". The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic). 10 September 1921. p. 3. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "1922 - Football: Melton Premiers". Melton Express (Vic. : 1915 - 1943). 23 September 1922. p. 3. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "1929 - Association Football:". Melton Express (Vic. : 1915 - 1943). 21 September 1929. p. 3. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "1930 - Melton wins premiership". Melton Express (Vic). 27 September 1927. p. 2. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "1931 - Grand Final a close one". The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic). 19 September 1931. p. 3. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "1931 - Melton wins premiership". The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1866 - 1943). 26 September 1931. p. 3. Retrieved 31 May 2024.