The Seaford Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Tigers'', is an

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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 south eastern region of

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, first organised in late 1921. Formation meetings were held at Armstrong's Grocery Store, Martins Garage and Weatherley's Milk Bar. The football team currently competes in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League. The netball department began at the club in 2011. The club also introduced women's football in 2013. At end of the 2016 season, Seaford FNC fielded three men's, four netball and three women's football sides. The highest profile player to come out of Seaford is retired St Kilda player and

Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as Charlie), is awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the f ...

list Robert Harvey. At the end of the 2018, Seaford FNC came last in the newly created First Division of MPNFL, finishing with 2 wins, 14 losses and 2 draws, and therefore were relegated to Second Division

Men's football premierships

Netball premierships

Women's football premierships

VFL/AFL players

* Fred Davies, Carlton, 125 games * Robert Elphinstone, St Kilda, 157 games * Anthony Harvey, St Kilda, 4 games * Robert Harvey, St Kilda, 1988–2008, 383 games (215 goals) * Eric White,

South Melbourne South Melbourne is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area. South Melbourne recorded a population of 11,548 at the 2021 ...

, 21 games * Brian Woinarski, St Kilda, 41 games * Steve Arnott,

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, 1 game * Ron Battams, St Kilda, 3 games * Aaron Edwards, West Coast,

North Melbourne North Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne Local government ar ...

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, 2003–14 * Damian McCormack,

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, 4 games, 2005–07 * Marcus Marigliani, Essendon, 2 games, 2010 * Jack Lonie, St Kilda, 2015–present * Mitchell White, Melbourne, 2015–present

Bibliography

* ''History of the Seaford Football Club'' - Mark Pearson Mark Pearson celebrates Seaford Football Club with a new book
by Simon McEvoy, ''The Herald Sun'', 15 May 2013

References

External links

Official site
{{South Eastern Women's Football Australian rules football clubs in Victoria (state) 1921 establishments in Australia Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League Netball teams in Victoria (state) Sport in the City of Frankston