St Albans Football Netball Club, nicknamed the ''Supersaints'', 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 at St Albans Reserve,

East Geelong East Geelong is a residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. At the , East Geelong had a population of 3,862. The post office opened on 6 June 1921. An earlier Post Office dating from 1871 was later renamed Moolap West. The 81-hectar ...

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. The club teams currently compete in the

Geelong Football League The Geelong Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. It is widely regarded as the highest-standard Australian rules football league in regional Victoria, with sever ...

(GFL), the premier league in Geelong.

History

The club was formed in 1880, making it one of the oldest in the Geelong area. They defeated Drysdale to win a premiership in 1904. After the

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the club spent many years in the Woolworths Cup competition of the

Geelong & District Football League The Geelong & District Football Netball League (GDFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball league in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, being the oldest surviving competition in the region. It is one of three leagues in the Geelong area, t ...

. Promoted to Division one from 1973 they then joined the

when that league was founded in 1979 and won back to back flags in 1987 and 1988.

Premierships

(2): ** 1987, 1988 *

(6): ** 1949, 1954, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1972

Senior Ladder Positions Since 2009

Ladder positions since 2009: * 2009- 11th * 2010- 9th * 2011- 12th * 2012- 11th * 2013- 8th * 2014- 9th * 2015- 7th * 2016- 9th * 2017- 11th * 2018- 11th

Bibliography

* ''Cat Country: History of Football In The Geelong Region'' by John Stoward –

References

External links

SportsTG website
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