Echunga Football Club

The Echunga Football Club is an Australian rules football team that plays in the town of Echunga, South Australia, and plays in Division 1 of the Hills Football League.

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Echunga
Full nameEchunga Football Club
NicknameDemons
SportAustralian rules football
Founded1903
LeagueHills Football League
Home groundEchunga Oval, Echunga
PresidentBen Hull
Head coachChad O'Sullivan

Club History

The Echunga Football Club was founded in 1903 by gold diggers who introduced the game to the town and played on hallowed turf prior to the club's founding. For twenty years the team played challenge matches against other teams from neighbouring towns until the Hills Central Football Association was founded in 1923. The HCFA lasted until 1967 when the association amalgamated with other neighbouring associations to form the current Hills Football League.

With war suspending the game for five years, the Echunga FC's involvement with a formal league now spans eighty-eight years. The Demons have won sixteen A-Grade premierships with thirty-three grand final appearances. After World War II, the club made eight grand finals and won six premierships.[2][3]

Premierships
  • A-Grade: 1925, 1939, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1971, 1972, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2011, 2013, 2014
  • B-Grade: 1968, 1975, 1979, 2000
  • Senior Colts: 1967, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1993
  • Junior Colts: 1972, 1992, 2001, 2009
  • Mini Colts: 1980
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References
  1. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=35VyMwEACAAJ&dq=echunga+football+club+premierships&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB1KrpipvdAhWLE4gKHWs6BSAQ6AEILzAB. Peter Lines. 2012. External link in |title= (help)
  2. "Echunga Football Club wins Supreme Court challenge against relegation to lower division". The Advertiser. 23 December 2014.
  3. "Echunga Football Club exploring ways to avoid relegation despite winning Hills Football League flag". The Advertiser. 26 September 2014.
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