Tanunda Football Club

The Tanunda Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, is an Australian rules football club based in the Barossa Valley town of Tanunda, South Australia, and competes in the Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association.

Tanunda
Names
Full nameTanunda Football Club
Nickname(s)Magpies
2019 season
After finals1st
Home-and-away season2nd
Club details
Founded1908 (1908)
Colours         
CompetitionBarossa Light & Gawler Football Association
Premierships18
Ground(s)Tanunda Oval
Uniforms
Home
Other information
Official website

History

[1]Prior to the Tanunda Football Club's official establishment in 1908, teams representing the town had been competing in the form of scratch matches for almost 20 years. Tanunda became a founding member of the Barossa & Light Football Association. In its early years Tanunda struggled in terms of on-field success and didn't make a Grand Final until 1926 where the Magpies suffered at the hands of Angaston, with history repeating six years later in 1932 when the two sides met again in a Grand Final. However, the club's first premiership arrived in 1934 when they defeated Kapunda in the Grand Final.

Tanunda's history of competing in the Barossa and Light Football Association before the league merged with the Gawler & District Football League in 1987 to create the current league that the Magpies play in, has been successful despite their record of 10 premierships being eclipsed by four other clubs, two of those being Kapunda and Angaston. Tanunda have been one of the most successful clubs in the BL&GFA since 1987, winning the inaugural BL&GFA flag and winning four premierships in a row from 2008 to 2011. The 2010 season not only saw Tanunda beat Barossa District in the Grand Final but the Magpies were also the 'champions' of the year too after going through the entire 2010 season undefeated.

Tanunda made the 2018 and 2019 Grand Finals, losing to Nuriootpa and beating Angaston the following year respectively.

[2]Premierships
  • Barossa and Light Football Association: 1934, 1936, 1937, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1961, 1963, 1980, 1982
  • Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association: 1987, 1989, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2019
gollark: I have bees, actually.
gollark: (ingame)
gollark: Fine, I'll go make Minoteaur.
gollark: Summoning bees is summoning magic, actually.
gollark: We could starve it of mana by going to an isolated place and summoning bee repeatedly.

References
  1. "Australian Football - tanunda Football Club - Stats". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  2. "Club Information | Tanunda Football Club - Home of the Magpies". Tanunda Football Club. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.