The Beaconsfield Football Club, nicknamed the ''Eagles'' or less formally the ''Beacy'' is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

club in the

Outer East Football Netball League The Outer East Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league stretching from the Goulburn Valley, Dandenong Ranges, and western Gippsland within Victoria (Australia), Victoria. History The league was formed with the ...

(OEFNL) It is based at

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in the southern-eastern Melbourne suburb of

Beaconsfield, Victoria Beaconsfield ( Boonwurrung: ''Kemgrim'') is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Cardinia and City of Casey local government areas. Beaconsfield record ...

History

Formed after a public meeting on the 21 April 1890, at Gissing’s Gippsland Hotel, Beaconsfield (now the Central Hotel), it was agreed to form a football club. A team representing the Town of Beaconsfield, Victoria, Beaconsfield played a number of ''friendly'' matches that year. Their first game was against Cranbourne in which they lost. Beaconsfield then went onto play Berwick and Pakenham, and lost every game. Despite initial enthusiasm the club rarely participated in any organised competitions until after WWII. After a recess during the war years, the club reformed in 1947 as Officer-Beaconsfield, competing in the Dandenong & District Football Association, In 1948 it reverted to the Beaconsfield Football Club and achieved its first premiership in 1953 when it defeated Keysborough in the B grade Grand Final. In 1954 Beaconsfield was a foundation member of the South West Gippsland Football League, and won premierships in 1974, 1980 and 1981. In 1993 the club transferred to West Gippsland Football League and had success in 1999 and 2001. A major VCFL restructure saw Beaconsfield join the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League in 2002 and senior premierships were achieved in 2003, 2004 and 2014. The club was part of a breakaway group of club the founded the short lived South East Football Netball League in 2015. The SEFNL would later merge with the AFL Yarra Ranges and the competition is now called

. They will play their first season in Premier Division.

Premierships

*1953, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2014

VFL/AFL players

* Austinn Jones - * Barry Allan (North Melbourne) * Michael McKenna (Richmond/Footscray) * Austinn Jones - * Brandon White (St Kilda) * Chris Newman (footballer), Chris Newman (Richmond) * Brendan Fevola - , * Shane Tuck - * Jake Aarts - * Cody Weightman-Western Bulldogs

References

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* {{OEFNL Australian rules football clubs in Victoria (state) 1890 establishments in Australia Australian rules football clubs established in 1890 Shire of Cardinia