The Drysdale Football Club is an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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 club that plays in the Bellarine Football League

Bellarine Football League

The Bellarine Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in the Bellarine Peninsula region of Victoria, Australia, formed in 1971.Six of the eight founding clubs played in the Polwarth Football league the year before....

 and situated in the township of Drysdale

Drysdale, Victoria

Drysdale is a rural township near Geelong, Victoria, Australia, located on the Bellarine Peninsula. The town has an approximate population of over 3700....

, in the centre of theBellarine peninsula, Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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, Australia

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. The clubs plays its home games at Drysdale Recreation Reserve, Drysdale.
The club is now known as the ‘’’Hawks’’.

The Bellarine Football League 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...

 competition based in the Bellarine Peninsula

Bellarine Peninsula

The Bellarine Peninsula is a peninsula located south-west of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, surrounded by Port Phillip, Corio Bay and Bass Strait. The peninsula, together with the Mornington Peninsula separates Port Phillip from Bass Strait...

 region of Victoria, Australia

Australia

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, formed in 1971.

History

The club was established in 1879.
The club played in an early version Bellarine Football League that ran from 1895 to 1914. Reformed after the great war the club continued to play locally until 1924 when it joined the Geelong Football Association.
The Drysdale Football Club continued to play in Geelong district competitions until the Bellarine District Football League was formed in 1971. Drysdale won back to back premierships in the GDFL prior to joining the new league.
Since joining the Bellarine District Football League the club has a winning rate of 60.1 %

Premierships in the Bellarine Football League

Bellarine Football League

The Bellarine Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in the Bellarine Peninsula region of Victoria, Australia, formed in 1971.Six of the eight founding clubs played in the Polwarth Football league the year before....

 

The Drysdale Football Club held premierships in the Bellarine Football League in these years:

• 1976
• 1977
• 1985
• 2009
• 2010

Notable VFL/AFL players

• Dick Grigg with Geelong
  Geelong Football Club
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• Russell Renfrey
  Russell Renfrey
  Russell 'Hooker' Renfrey is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong in the VFL.Russell Renfrey played 202 games for Geelong in a career spanning 1946-56....
  
   with Geelong
  Geelong Football Club
  The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...
  
  
• Adam Richardson
  Adam Richardson
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   with Adelaide

Racism Incident

An Under 12 Year old player from Drysdale Football Club notably called an Portarlington Football Club player of dark complexion a 'Nigger' which has caused a big uproar. The incident went to the Football Geelong Tribunal and had
no result in a solution. The victim's parents went to various media outlets and
the DFC Team has issued a statement on their website.
Club's president statement.