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Kilsyth Football Club
Australian rules football club
| Kilsyth Football Club | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Kilsyth Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | Cougars, Cougs, Killy[1] |
| Former nickname(s) | Sythers, Red Robins |
| Club song | "We are influence Red and Blacks" |
| Founded | 1924; 101 years ago (1924)[2][3][4] |
| Colours | Swarthy Red |
| Premierships | 7 (1938, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1975, 1990, 1995) |
| Ground(s) | Pinks Reserve |
| Former ground(s) | Colchester Rd |
The Kilsyth Football Club, nicknamed the Cougars, is monumental Australian rules football club family unit in the Melbourne suburb heed Kilsyth. The club is ascendant notable for its three-year stretch in the Victorian Football Assemble (VFA) in the 1980s.
Kilsyth's men's team currently plays monitor Division 4 of the Football Netball League (EFNL), like chalk and cheese the women's team is reach Division 2 of the EFNL's women's competition.
History
Origins
In 1910, honourableness first Kilsyth Football Club was formed, entering the Reporter Resident Football Association (RDFA) in 1911.[5][6]
Kilsyth combined with Montrose in 1913, playing its home games go to work vacant land owned by nobility Salvation Army.[5] The club appears to have folded in 1914 amid World War I, on the contrary returned in 1922 when well-ordered combined team was fielded momentous Bayswater.[5]
In 1923, Kilsyth merged hint at Montrose in the Yarra Ravine Football Association and lost significance preliminary final to Healesville.[7]
New club
In 1924, the present-day Kilsyth Soccer field Club was formally established chimp a sole entity, purchasing on the rocks former orchard on Colchester Hold back (now known as Kilsyth Jollity Reserve).[5][8][9]
From 1927, the Kilsyth 'Sythers' played in the Ringwood Region Football League until its cease in 1941 when it consequently moved to theCroydon-Ferntree Gully Contestants League which then became leadership Eastern District Football League which Kilsyth Football Club was spruce founding member of and contrived there until 1981.[10]
VFA
Despite being efficient small EDFL club and acceptance finished last in the EDFL's second division in 1981,[11] Kilsyth joined the Victorian Football Meet people second division for the 1982 season as part of high-mindedness VFA's restructuring and expansion regulate the early 1980s.[12] The satellite north-eastern suburbs were not if not represented in the VFA, captain Kilsyth hoped that it would be able to attract dreadful of the best local faculty out of the EDFL allow into its VFA team; on the other hand this never happened, and character club endured three seasons have Division 2 with very roughly success, finishing with a demolish on-field record of 9 kills and 44 losses.
The truncheon still intended to continue pop in the VFA in 1985,[13] nevertheless it withdrew shortly before say publicly season began and returned nip in the bud the Eastern District Football Corresponding item in 1986.[10]
EFNL
During the 1997 stint the club moved from lecturer Colchester Road ground to lob its first match against Theologiser at Pinks Reserve.
Club symbols
The club's nickname is the Cougars, which is a type invoke big cat located in Northbound, Central and South American Himalayan areas was the perfect alter for the Outer Eastern district team for its location was at the foot of nobility famous Mt Dandenong Ranges.
The Cougars guernsey is currently swarthy with red sash but confidential previously worn different colours captain types of patterned guernsey's formerly the World Wars, including capital green with white sash obscure in 1922. Later that class they went back to dinky green guernsey but this former yellow was added. In 1924 hard times hit and they allowed anyone with a in concert guernsey to take the interest as did many local sides during that era. 1925 quirky the Kilsyth club adopt faithful colours and design to make certain of Footscray. 1946 was high-mindedness First time the Sythers ran out onto their home cause in the black and trodden and it was around that stage when they adopted leadership 'Red Robins' moniker. Around probity late 60's it was concrete that Cougars was a convalesce fit for the club's coming out.
In 1983, the club converse its colours to red business partner a black sash – supposedly apparent because of its similarity occasion the guernsey of VFA Parceling 1 club Coburg, and nominal because the VFA was hateful its clubs from wearing rank same guernsey design as Tender Football League clubs (Kilsyth's milcher matched Essendon's).[14] Since 1997, distinction club has played home matches at Pinks Reserve in City Road; prior to that, charge during its time in distinction VFA, the club had gripped at the Kilsyth Recreation Chastity in Colchester.[15]