The Mulwala Football Club, nicknamed the ''Lions'', 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

Mulwala Mulwala (locally , elsewhere also ) is a town in the Federation Council local government area in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia. Situated on Lake Mulwala, an artificial lake formed by the damming of the Murray River, it fo ...

located in the

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district of

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. The first recorded match was Mulwala verses Murray Football Club on Saturday, 23 September 1882. Between 1883 and 1886 a Selector's Union Football Club played their home games in Mulwala and played against Corowa and Border United for the Camplin Cup. In 1894, the Tungamah Caladonian Society donated 20 medals to be competed for by the following football teams – Burramine South, Mulwala, Tungamah, Yarrawonga and Youarang. In 1898 Mulwala FC competed in the Yarrawonga & District Football Association against – Burramine South, Bundalong, Katamatite, Telford and Yarrawonga. In 1902, Mulwala were runners up to St. James / Devenish United Football Club in the Yarrawonga and Border Football Association. Mulwala were runners up to Rennie in the 1939 and 1940

Coreen & District Football League The Coreen & District Football League was an Australian rules football competition in the Coreen, New South Wales, Coreen district of the Riverina in New South Wales, initially formed in 1909. The netball competition commenced in 1972 in line w ...

grand final. In 1948, Burramine defeated Mulwala by one point to win the premiership of the Murray Valley North East Football League. Mulwala have competed in the Murray FNL, in both football and netball since 1987.

League competitions timeline

Tungamah Caledonian Society Football Competition *1894 Yarrawonga District Football Association *1898–1919; Benalla Mulwala Football League *1920–1937;

*1938–1940; ;Mulwala Football Club *1941–1945 Club in recess, due to World War II Murray Valley North-East Football League *1946–1948; Benalla Tungamah Football League *1949–1966 Tungamah Football League *1967–1986

Murray Football League The Murray Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league affiliated with the Victorian Country Football League. The league covers a large area of northern Victoria and southern New South Wales from Shepparton in ...

*1987 to present day

Premierships

;Senior Football * Yarrawonga & Border Football Association (1): ** 1912 * Murray Valley Football League (1): ** 1950 * Tungamah Football League (3): ** 1959, 1968, 1969 *

(3): ** 1990, 2022, 2023

Football League – Best and Fairest Winners

;Seniors Benalla Tungamah Football League * 1955 – Les Squires Tungamah Football League * 1977 – B Cooper

*1987 – Phillip Beams *1999 – Robert Lamberti *2001 – Robert Lamberti *2005 – Jason Sanderson *2019 – Jackson Gash *2023 – Jackson Gash

Mulwala FC players who played in the VFL / AFL

The following players played with Mulwala, prior to playing senior football in the VFL, with the year indicating their VFL debut. * 1927 –

Frank Seymour Frank Seymour (14 May 1904 – 7 May 1987) was 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 pla ...

– Carlton & Fitzroy * 1974 – Dennis Payne – Melbourne * 2002 – Mark McGough – Collingwood & St. Kilda * 2024 -

Caleb Mitchell Caleb Mitchell is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). Mitchell played for Mulwala Football Club, Mulwala Thirds in 2021, winning the Murray Football League best and fairest awa ...

- Sydney Swans

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