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The '''Kilsyth Football Club''', nicknamed the '''Cougars''', is an [[Australian rules football]] club based in the [[Melbourne]] suburb of [[Kilsyth, Victoria|Kilsyth]]. The club is most notable for its three-year stint in the [[Victorian Football Association]] (VFA) in the 1980s.


Kilsyth's men's team currently plays in Division 4 of the [[Eastern Football Netball League]] (EFNL), while the women's team is in Division 2 of the EFNL's women's competition.
'''Kilsyth Football Club''' is an [[Australian rules football]] club based in [[Kilsyth, Victoria]], which plays in the [[Eastern Football League (Australia)|Eastern Football League]]. The club is most notable for its three-year stint in the [[Victorian Football Association]] (VFA) second division in the 1980s.


==History==
==History==
===Origins===
The Kilsyth Football Club was formed in 1923, and played initially in the Ringwood District Football League, then later in the Croydon-Ferntree Gully Football League. In 1962, the club was a founding member of the [[Eastern Football League (Australia)|Eastern District Football League]], and played there until 1981.<ref name="devaney">{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/clubs/info/Kilsyth/2386|title=Kilsyth|publisher=Australian Football|author=John Devaney|accessdate=12 June 2014}}</ref>
In 1910, the first Kilsyth Football Club was formed, entering the [[Reporter District Football Association]] (RDFA) in 1911.<ref name="history">{{cite web |title=Our History |url=https://kilsythfootballclub.com.au/history/ |publisher=Kilsyth Football Club |access-date=22 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240922012401/https://kilsythfootballclub.com.au/history/ |archive-date=22 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Box Hill Reporter District Football League / Reporter District Football League (Vic) |url=http://www.footypedia.info/00000392.htm |publisher=Footypedia |access-date=21 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921082922/http://www.footypedia.info/00000392.htm |archive-date=21 September 2024}}</ref>


Kilsyth combined with Montrose in 1913, playing its home games on vacant land owned by the [[The Salvation Army in Australia|Salvation Army]].<ref name="history"/> The club appears to have folded in 1914 amid [[World War I]], but returned in 1922 when a combined team was fielded with Bayswater.<ref name="history"/>
Despite being a small EDFL club and having finished last in the EDFL's second division in 1981,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Herald|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|title=Kilsyth in VFA bid|author=John Craven|page=29|date=13 November 1981}}</ref> Kilsyth joined the Victorian Football Association second division for the 1982 season as part of the VFA's restructuring and expansion in the early 1980s.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|page=63|author=Darren Joyce|date=14 November 1981|title=Kilsyth in VFA}}</ref> The outer north-eastern suburbs were not otherwise represented in the VFA, and Kilsyth hoped that it would be able to attract some of the best local talent out of the EDFL and into its VFA team; but this never happened, and the club endured three seasons in Division 2 with very little success. The club still intended to continue in the VFA in 1985,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Croydon Mail|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|page=61|author=Bruce Tobin|date=20 February 1985|title=Kilsyth seeks new players for 1985|volume=62|issue=7}}</ref> but it withdrew shortly before the season began and returned to the Eastern District Football League in 1986.<ref name="devaney" />


In 1923, Kilsyth merged with Montrose in the [[Yarra Valley Football League|Yarra Valley Football Association]] and lost the preliminary final to Healesville.<ref>{{cite web |title=1923 - Preliminary Final review |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60207758 |publisher=Healesville and Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic) |access-date=28 January 2024 |page=3 |date=13 October 1923}}</ref>
As of 2014, the club plays in the Eastern Football League's fourth division.

===New club===
In 1924, the present-day Kilsyth Football Club was formally established as a sole entity, purchasing a former orchard on Colchester Road (now known as Kilsyth Recreation Reserve).<ref name="history"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Kilsyth Football turns 100 |url=https://lilydale.mailcommunity.com.au/2024/08/12/kilsyth-football-turns-100/ |publisher=Star Mail |access-date=22 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240922013013/https://lilydale.mailcommunity.com.au/2024/08/12/kilsyth-football-turns-100/ |archive-date=22 September 2024 |date=12 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=KILSYTH |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/258391555/28802418 |website=Trove |publisher=The Lilydale Express |access-date=22 September 2024 |page=3 |date=3 September 1926}}</ref>

From 1927, the Kilsyth 'Sythers' played in the Ringwood District Football League until its demise in 1941 when it then moved to theCroydon-Ferntree Gully Football League which then became the [[Eastern Football League (Australia)|Eastern District Football League]] which Kilsyth Football Club was a founding member of and played there until 1981.<ref name="devaney">{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/clubs/info/Kilsyth/2386|title=Kilsyth|publisher=Australian Football|author=John Devaney|access-date=12 June 2014}}</ref>

===VFA===
Despite being a small EDFL club and having finished last in the EDFL's second division in 1981,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Herald|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|title=Kilsyth in VFA bid|author=John Craven|page=29|date=13 November 1981}}</ref> Kilsyth joined the Victorian Football Association second division for the 1982 season as part of the VFA's restructuring and expansion in the early 1980s.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|page=63|author=Darren Joyce|date=14 November 1981|title=Kilsyth in VFA}}</ref> The outer north-eastern suburbs were not otherwise represented in the VFA, and Kilsyth hoped that it would be able to attract some of the best local talent out of the EDFL and into its VFA team; but this never happened, and the club endured three seasons in Division 2 with very little success, finishing with a total on-field record of 9 wins and 44 losses.

The club still intended to continue in the VFA in 1985,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Croydon Mail|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|page=61|author=Bruce Tobin|date=20 February 1985|title=Kilsyth seeks new players for 1985|volume=62|issue=7}}</ref> but it withdrew shortly before the season began and returned to the Eastern District Football League in 1986.<ref name="devaney" />

===EFNL===
During the 1997 season the club moved from its Colchester Road ground to play its first match against Knox at Pinks Reserve.


==Club symbols==
==Club symbols==
The club's nickname is the Cougars, which is a type of big cat located in North, Central and South American Mountainous areas was the perfect fit for the Outer Eastern suburb team for its location was at the foot of the famous Mt Dandenong Ranges.
The club's nickname is the Cougars, and the guernsey is currently black with red sash. In 1983, the club reversed its colours to red with a black sash – partly because of its similarity to the guernsey of VFA Division 1 club [[Coburg Football Club|Coburg]], and partly because the VFA was discouraging its clubs from wearing the same guernsey design as [[Australian Football League|Victorian Football League]] clubs (Kilsyth's guernsey matched [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon's]]).<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|page=27|author=Marc Fiddian|title=Dullard, Towns join Seagulls|date=26 March 1983}}</ref> Since 1997, the club has played home matches at Pinks Reserve in Liverpool Road; prior to that, and during its time in the VFA, the club had played at the Kilsyth Recreation Reserve in Colchester Road.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scoreboardpressure.com/2014/05/08/kilsyth-vfa-and-efl-victoria/|title=Kilsyth (VFA and EFL), Victoria|author=Mieke Ruotsalainen|publisher=Scoreboard Pressure|accessdate=12 June 2014|date=8 May 2014}}</ref>

The Cougars guernsey is currently black with red sash but had previously worn different colours and types of patterned guernsey's before the World Wars, including a green with white sash and in 1922. Later that year they went back to a green guernsey but this time yellow was added.
In 1924 hard times hit and they allowed anyone with a playing guernsey to take the field as did many local sides during that era. 1925 seen the Kilsyth club adopt similar colours and design to that of Footscray.
1946 was the First time the Sythers ran out onto their home ground in the black and red and it was around this stage when they adopted the 'Red Robins' moniker. Around the late 60's it was determined that Cougars was a better fit for the club's image.

In 1983, the club reversed its colours to red with a black sash – partly because of its similarity to the guernsey of VFA Division 1 club [[Coburg Football Club|Coburg]], and partly because the VFA was discouraging its clubs from wearing the same guernsey design as [[Australian Football League|Victorian Football League]] clubs (Kilsyth's guernsey matched [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon's]]).<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|page=27|author=Marc Fiddian|title=Dullard, Towns join Seagulls|date=26 March 1983}}</ref> Since 1997, the club has played home matches at Pinks Reserve in Liverpool Road; prior to that, and during its time in the VFA, the club had played at the Kilsyth Recreation Reserve in Colchester.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scoreboardpressure.com/2014/05/08/kilsyth-vfa-and-efl-victoria/|title=Kilsyth (VFA and EFL), Victoria|author=Mieke Ruotsalainen|publisher=Scoreboard Pressure|access-date=12 June 2014|date=8 May 2014}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

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==Website==
*[http://kilsythfootballclub.com.au/ Official website]


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Latest revision as of 04:06, 18 October 2024

Kilsyth Football Club
Names
Full nameKilsyth Football Club
Nickname(s)Cougars, Cougs, Killy[1]
Former nickname(s)Sythers, Red Robins
Club song"We are the Red and Blacks"
Club details
Founded1924; 100 years ago (1924)[2][3][4]
Colours  Black   Red
Premierships7 (1938, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1975, 1990, 1995)
Ground(s)Pinks Reserve
Former ground(s)Colchester Rd
Uniforms
Home

The Kilsyth Football Club, nicknamed the Cougars, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Kilsyth. The club is most notable for its three-year stint in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in the 1980s.

Kilsyth's men's team currently plays in Division 4 of the Eastern Football Netball League (EFNL), while the women's team is in Division 2 of the EFNL's women's competition.

History

[edit]

Origins

[edit]

In 1910, the first Kilsyth Football Club was formed, entering the Reporter District Football Association (RDFA) in 1911.[5][6]

Kilsyth combined with Montrose in 1913, playing its home games on vacant land owned by the Salvation Army.[5] The club appears to have folded in 1914 amid World War I, but returned in 1922 when a combined team was fielded with Bayswater.[5]

In 1923, Kilsyth merged with Montrose in the Yarra Valley Football Association and lost the preliminary final to Healesville.[7]

New club

[edit]

In 1924, the present-day Kilsyth Football Club was formally established as a sole entity, purchasing a former orchard on Colchester Road (now known as Kilsyth Recreation Reserve).[5][8][9]

From 1927, the Kilsyth 'Sythers' played in the Ringwood District Football League until its demise in 1941 when it then moved to theCroydon-Ferntree Gully Football League which then became the Eastern District Football League which Kilsyth Football Club was a founding member of and played there until 1981.[10]

VFA

[edit]

Despite being a small EDFL club and having finished last in the EDFL's second division in 1981,[11] Kilsyth joined the Victorian Football Association second division for the 1982 season as part of the VFA's restructuring and expansion in the early 1980s.[12] The outer north-eastern suburbs were not otherwise represented in the VFA, and Kilsyth hoped that it would be able to attract some of the best local talent out of the EDFL and into its VFA team; but this never happened, and the club endured three seasons in Division 2 with very little success, finishing with a total on-field record of 9 wins and 44 losses.

The club still intended to continue in the VFA in 1985,[13] but it withdrew shortly before the season began and returned to the Eastern District Football League in 1986.[10]

EFNL

[edit]

During the 1997 season the club moved from its Colchester Road ground to play its first match against Knox at Pinks Reserve.

Club symbols

[edit]

The club's nickname is the Cougars, which is a type of big cat located in North, Central and South American Mountainous areas was the perfect fit for the Outer Eastern suburb team for its location was at the foot of the famous Mt Dandenong Ranges.

The Cougars guernsey is currently black with red sash but had previously worn different colours and types of patterned guernsey's before the World Wars, including a green with white sash and in 1922. Later that year they went back to a green guernsey but this time yellow was added. In 1924 hard times hit and they allowed anyone with a playing guernsey to take the field as did many local sides during that era. 1925 seen the Kilsyth club adopt similar colours and design to that of Footscray. 1946 was the First time the Sythers ran out onto their home ground in the black and red and it was around this stage when they adopted the 'Red Robins' moniker. Around the late 60's it was determined that Cougars was a better fit for the club's image.

In 1983, the club reversed its colours to red with a black sash – partly because of its similarity to the guernsey of VFA Division 1 club Coburg, and partly because the VFA was discouraging its clubs from wearing the same guernsey design as Victorian Football League clubs (Kilsyth's guernsey matched Essendon's).[14] Since 1997, the club has played home matches at Pinks Reserve in Liverpool Road; prior to that, and during its time in the VFA, the club had played at the Kilsyth Recreation Reserve in Colchester.[15]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "OUR CLUB". Kilsyth Football Club. Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Kilsyth Football Club (Vic)". Footypedia. Archived from the original on 21 September 2024. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  3. ^ "KILSYTH FC". Eastern Football Netball League. 23 March 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  4. ^ "A Fantastic Saturday night celebrating 100 years of the Kilsyth Football Club". Facebook. David Hodgett MP. 5 August 2024. Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d "Our History". Kilsyth Football Club. Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Box Hill Reporter District Football League / Reporter District Football League (Vic)". Footypedia. Archived from the original on 21 September 2024. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
  7. ^ "1923 - Preliminary Final review". Healesville and Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic). 13 October 1923. p. 3. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  8. ^ "Kilsyth Football turns 100". Star Mail. 12 August 2024. Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  9. ^ "KILSYTH". Trove. The Lilydale Express. 3 September 1926. p. 3. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  10. ^ a b John Devaney. "Kilsyth". Australian Football. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  11. ^ John Craven (13 November 1981). "Kilsyth in VFA bid". The Herald. Melbourne, VIC. p. 29.
  12. ^ Darren Joyce (14 November 1981). "Kilsyth in VFA". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne, VIC. p. 63.
  13. ^ Bruce Tobin (20 February 1985). "Kilsyth seeks new players for 1985". The Croydon Mail. Vol. 62, no. 7. Melbourne, VIC. p. 61.
  14. ^ Marc Fiddian (26 March 1983). "Dullard, Towns join Seagulls". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. p. 27.
  15. ^ Mieke Ruotsalainen (8 May 2014). "Kilsyth (VFA and EFL), Victoria". Scoreboard Pressure. Retrieved 12 June 2014.

Website

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Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Kilsyth_Football_Club&oldid=1251798919"