Black Rock Football Club
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BLACK ROCK | |
Full name | Black Rock Football Club |
Emblem | The Rockers |
Colours | Black with Red Sash |
Founded | 1908 |
League | Southern Football League Southern Football League (Victoria) The Southern Football League is an Australian rules football league, based in the south and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, for both seniors and juniors.... |
Ground | McDonald Reserve, Black Rock Black Rock, Victoria Black Rock is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Black Rock had a population of 5796.-History:... |
Official website | http://www.blackrockfc.com/ |
The Black Rock Football Club is a century old Australian rules football club located in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Black Rock
Black Rock, Victoria
Black Rock is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Black Rock had a population of 5796.-History:...
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The club commenced official competition play in 1913 by joining the Federal Football League. Apart from a brief period during the late 1920s in Victorian Amateur Football Association
Victorian Amateur Football Association
The Victorian Amateur Football Association is an Australian rules football league in Victoria, Australia consisting purely of amateur players. Unlike the Victorian Football League and the VFL/AFL, the VAFA has always been strictly a purely amateur league and has affiliations with both AFL Victoria...
, Black Rock remained in the FDL until the early 1970s.
The club folded in 1972, but was successfully revived and entered into the East Suburban Churches Football Association in 1976. Black Rock transferred to the South East Subarban Football League in the late 1980s before that league merged with the ESCFA to form the Southern Football League
Southern Football League (Victoria)
The Southern Football League is an Australian rules football league, based in the south and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, for both seniors and juniors....
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The club now participates in Division 2 of the Southern Football League
Southern Football League (Victoria)
The Southern Football League is an Australian rules football league, based in the south and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, for both seniors and juniors....
after winning the 3rd division premiership in 2007.
Senior Premierships
- Federal Football League
- 1935, 1936, 1954
- East Suburban Churches Football Association
- 1980 (E Grade), 1984 (D Grade)
- Southern Football LeagueSouthern Football League (Victoria)The Southern Football League is an Australian rules football league, based in the south and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, for both seniors and juniors....
- 2004, 2007 (both in Division 3)