The Channel Football Club is an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 club currently playing

in the Old Scholars Football Association (Tas), also known as Old Scholars.

The Channel Football Club's emblem is currently the Sharks, the club was required to change emblem as a requirement of joining the Old Scholars Football Association due to an emblem clash with St Virgil's OBFC.

From 1967-2008 the club's emblem was the Saints.

The Formation of Channel Football Club

The Channel Football Club was formed in 1967 after the disastrous 1967 Tasmanian bushfires, which decimated the Channel region. With the demise of the Margate, Kettering, Snug and Woodbridge Football Clubs, the Channel Football Club was formed to incorporate all four of these clubs, Channel would be lining up for the 1967 season in the Huon Football Association.Shortly afterwards, a set of red, white and black playing jumpers were donated to the club by the Longley Football Club, which would no longer be needing them as it had recently merged with Kingston (Now Kingborough). Channel adopted the Saints emblem and Red, White & Black playing strip and were firstly based at Margate before moving to the club's present Snug Park headquarters. Channel left the Huon Football Association at the end of 1995 and joined the then STFL (now SFL

Southern Football League (Tasmania)

The Southern Football League is an Australian rules football league which is based in Tasmania, Australia.- History :The Southern Tasmanian Football League was founded in 1996 with the league's original clubs being those of the recently defunct Tasmanian Amateur Football League – Southern Division...

) in 1996 whereby they won the League's inaugural Senior premiership.

The Struggle and Joining the Old Scholars

After becoming the easy beats of the Regional League, finishing 2008 winless, the Channel Football Club applied to join the more social Old Scholars Football Association. In January 2009, the Channel Football Club was granted permission to join the Old Scholars Football Association. The club feared that they would be no match for former Premier League clubs rejoining the same competition as them, and that the resulting beatings they would've suffered could well have spelled the end of the Channel Football Club's existence.

Stadiums, Achievements & Club Records

• Club Formed - 1967

• Colours - Red, Black & White.

• Emblem - The Sharks.

• Song - There's A Team On The Track, Dressed In Red, White & Black.

• Entry to Huon Football Association

1967

• Entry to Southern Football League

1996

• Entry to Old Scholars Football Association

2009

• Old Scholars Football Association Premierships

Nil

• Old Scholars Football Association Runners Up

Nil

• Southern Football League Premierships

1996

• Southern Football League Runners Up

Nil

• Huon Football Association Premierships

1975, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990

• Peter Hodgeman Medallists

1998 - Andrew Beveridge

2005 - M.Gowans

• Club Record Games Holder

411 by Ken Smith

• Club Record Attendance

3110 v Claremont

Claremont Magpies

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 for the 1996 SFL

Southern Football League (Tasmania)

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Grand Final at Abbotsfield Park.

• Club Record Score

60.36 (396) v Lachlan at Snug Park in 1996.

External links

• AFL Southern Tasmania
• Info on Old Scholars