The Reservoir Football Club is an

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club located 12 km north of

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in the suburb of

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History

Founded in 1923, the club initially competed in the Bourke-Evelyn Football League. After moving from Diamond Valley, Metropolitan, and Panton Hill football leagues, the club settled in the Diamond Valley Football League, now known as the

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, in 1981 where the club has remained since. The club has juniors which have won several under-age premierships in DVFL and the PDJFA. Due to a shortage of players for season 2007, the Reservoir Football Club went into recess but resumed in 2008. In 2009 the NFL Division 2 split. The bottom 6 teams (out of 14) dropped down and created Division 3. Reservoir were placed 13th and were relegated to Division 3 where they have competed ever since.

Premiership years

* 1946, 1947, 1959, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1984, 2015

VFL/AFL players

Ross Lyon Ross Lyon (born 8 November 1966) is a former Australian rules football player and the current senior coach of the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously coached St Kilda from 2007 to 2011 and the Fremantle ...

(Reservoir Colts) *

Jason Heatley Jason Heatley (born 21 February 1972) is a former Australian rules football full-forward, who played for and during the 1990s. Early career Heatley played with the Wangaratta Football Club in the Ovens & Murray Football League in 1991 and k ...

(Reservoir Colts) *

Trent Cotchin Trent William Cotchin (born 7 April 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is an All-Australian, a three-time Jack Dyer Medal, Richmond be ...

(Reservoir Colts) *

Gary Tredrea Gary Tredrea (born 6 October 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer with Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Port Adelaide and West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Car ...

(Reservoir Colts)

External links

Reservoir Football Club website
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