The Cobden Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Bombers'', 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 ...

and

netball Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own. It is one of a ...

club based in the town of Cobden, Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the

Hampden Football Netball League The Hampden Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league based in South-Western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, with clubs located in towns along or near the Princes Highway from Camperdown, Victoria, Camperdown t ...

, which Cobden is a founding club, with its football squad having played there since 1930.

Premierships

* Corangamite Football Association (2): ** 1891, 1915 *

(6): ** 1930, 1933, 1948, 1949, 1997, 1998

Maskell Medallists

*John Couttie 1952 * Hugh Worrall 1970, 1972 & 1979 *Peter Anson 1985 *Stephen Hammond 1996 *Wayne Robertson 1998 *Levi Dare 2010 & 2012 *Joseph Dare 2012

Leading goalkickers

*Kevin Scanlon 1930 (102) *Keith Wade 1939 (88) *Vic Jones 1947 (41) *Vic Jones 1948 (64) *Gavin Moran 1958 (71) *Chris Nash 1979 (83)

Notable players

VFL/AFL players recruited from Cobden include - * Alistair Lord (Geelong) * Stewart Lord (Geelong) * Thorold Merrett (Collingwood) * John Rantall (South Melbourne) * Ben Cunnington (North Melbourne) * Gary Rohan (Geelong) * Jackson Merrett (Essendon) * Zach Merrett (Essendon) * Sean Darcy (Fremantle) * Sam Walsh (Carlton)

Bibliography

* ''Evergreen Hampden: The Hampden Football League and its people, 1930-1976'' by Fred Bond & Don Grossman, 1979 – * ''History of Football in the Western District'' by John Stoward – Aussie Footy Books, 2008 –

References

External links

Official website

SportsTG site
{{Hampden Football Netball League Sports clubs and teams established in 1879 Australian rules football clubs established in 1879 Hampden Football Netball League clubs Netball teams in Victoria (state) 1879 establishments in Australia