The Stawell Football Club are 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 which compete in the Wimmera Football League

Wimmera Football League

The Wimmera Football League is based in Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns in the Wimmera region. The regional centres along the Western Highway from Ararat to Nhill as well as Minyip-Murtoa and Warracknabeal.The league is a major country league....

 (WFL). They are based in the town of Stawell, Victoria

Stawell, Victoria

Stawell , is a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia. The town is located in Shire of Northern Grampians Local Government Area, west-north-west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Stawell had a population of 6,035....

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In 1999 they merged with the Stawell Warriors Football Club, who played in the South Wimmera Football League. Before the merger, Stawell were nicknamed the Redlegs.

VFL/AFL footballers recruited from Stawell include Ken Beck

Ken Beck

Ken Beck is a retired Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League .Originally from Stawell, Beck was a tall ruckman and made his league debut in 1962. He was a regular member of the team during the 1960s and was a reserve in their 1971 premiership...

, Craig Ellis

Craig Ellis

Craig Ellis is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.-Football career:...

 and Liam Pickering

Liam Pickering

Liam Michael Pickering is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL.-Football career:He played for the Geelong Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club. He played 102 games with Geelong from 1993–1999, before his retirement from AFL football...

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