Yankalilla Football Club

Yankalilla
Full name Yankalilla Football Club
Nickname Tigers
Sport Australian Rules Football
Founded 1880s
League Great Southern Football League
Home ground Yankalilla Memorial Park Sporting Complex, Yankalilla
Colours Black, Gold
President Scott Bevan
Head coach John Hinge
Captain Travis Bartlett

The Yankalilla Football Club is an Australian rules football club first formed in the 1880s. Yankalilla was originally a member of the Fleurieu Football Association until it joined the Great Southern Football Association in 1935.[1]

In 1955, Yankalilla entered a reserves team in the Southern Football Association B-Grade competition and the following season joined that competition entirely. Yankalilla remained in the Southern Football League until the end of the 1967 season when they transferred back to the Great Southern Football League where they have remained since.[1][2][3]

Yankalilla continue to field Senior and Junior teams in the Great Southern Football League.

Yankalilla FC has produced two AFL/VFL footballers Kym Koster and Greg Whittlesea, formerly of Hawthorn, but more famous as a Magarey Medal winner for Sturt in the SANFL.[1]

A-Grade Premierships

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Club History". Yankalilla Football Club. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "Yankalilla May Come In". Victor Harbour Times. 29 September 1967. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Great Southern Football League". Victor Harbour Times. 26 April 1968. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Lines, Peter (2012). South Australian Country Football Digest. Cowell: Peter Lines. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-9871591-9-9.
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