The Reynella Football Club is an Australian rules football club first formed on 18 April 1896. Reynella first joined an organised competition in 1914, the

Mid-Southern Football Association The Southern Metropolitan Football League (SMFL) was an Australian rules football competition based in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia until it folded at the end of the 1986 season. It first formed in 1912 as the Sturt Football A ...

, playing in that competition until the end of 1918. In 1919, Reynella joined the

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for the first time, but only lasted one season before returning to the Mid-Southern Association. In 1928, Reynella merged with the

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and joined the

. This combination split at the end of the 1929 season and Reynella returned to the Mid-Southern Association. Reynella remained in the Mid-Southern Association, later the Glenelg District Football Association, until the end of the 1947 season. Reynella joined the

in 1948 where they have remained ever since. The Reynella FC continues to field teams in Senior and Junior grades in the Southern Football League. In 2018 Reynella introduced its first female teams in the inaugural SFL female competition. Reynella FC has produced a number of Australian Football League (AFL/VFL) players including Michael Doughty (

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), Ben Moore (

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), Darren Kappler (

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, Hawthorn, Sydney), Andrew Brockhurst (

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(

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), Darren Harris (

), Matthew Golding (

), Justin Bollenhagen (

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(

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(

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), Jack Delean (

A-Grade Premierships

* 1936 Glenelg District Football Association B-Grade * 1969 Southern Football League A-Grade * 1975 Southern Football League A-Grade * 1977 Southern Football League A-Grade * 2010 Southern Football League A-Grade * 2013 Southern Football League A-Grade * 2015 Southern Football League A-Grade * 2022 Southern Football League A-Grade

References

External links

* {{Southern Football League (South Australia) Clubs, state=collapsed Southern Football League (South Australia) clubs Australian rules football clubs in South Australia 1896 establishments in Australia Australian rules football clubs established in 1896