The Queenscliff 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 Queenscliff

Queenscliff, Victoria

Queenscliff is a small town on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, Australia, south of Swan Bay at the entrance to Port Phillip. It is the administrative centre for the Borough of Queenscliffe...

, on the Bellarine peninsula, Victoria

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, Australia

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

History

The club was established in 1884 and 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 1923 when it joined the Geelong Football Association. The club also has a junior section with U 10s, U 12s, U 14s, U 16s, U 18s along with the Reserves and the Seniors.

Queenscliff played the 1957 season in the Polwarth Football league and continued in this league until the Bellarine Football League was formed in 1971. Queenscliff dominated the Polwarth league with Kevin Coltish at full-forward the club won seven premierships in eight seasons.

Since joining the Bellarine Football League the club has a winning rate of 49.9 %

Premierships

• 1910
• 1913
• 1920
• 1929 Queenscliff Def. Chilwell 17.8 (110) - 13.15 (93)
• 1937 Queenscliff Def. Anakie 6.6 (42) - 4.9 (33)
• 1961
• 1962
• 1963
• 1964 Queenscliff Def. Torquay 10.14 (74) - 1.4 (10)
• 1965
• 1967
• 1968
• 1975 Queenscliff Def. Drysdale 14.16 (100) - 11.10 (76) BOG - Peter Growney
• 2011 Queenscliff Def. Geelong Amateurs 17.22 (124) - 13.7 (85) BOG - Daniel (Whippet) Gibbs

League Best & Fairests

• 1952 Keith Wayth
• 1954 Keith Wayth
• 1976 Robert Warren
• 1977 Mike Birrell
• 1978 Mike Birrell
• 1988 Dean McNeil
• 1993 Jamie Dalton
• 2003 Matt Primmer
• 2011 Dylan Chaplin-Burch