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KEY FACTS

Official name
Cranbourne Football Club

Known as
Cranbourne

Nickname
Eagles

Formed
1889

Colours
Blue and gold

Associated clubs
Cranbourne WFC

Affiliation (Current)
Southern Football Netball League (SFNL) 2022–2024

Affiliations (Historical)
Berwick and District Football Association (BDFA) 1908–1932; Dandenong and District Football Association (DDFA) 1933–1953; South West Gippsland Football League (SWGFL) 1954–1994; Mornington Peninsula Football Netball League (MPFNL) 1995–2014; South East Football Netball League (SEFNL) 2015–2018; Outer East Football Netball (OEFN) 2019–2021

Senior Premierships
Berwick District Football Association (BDFA) - 1926 (1 total); Dandenong District Football Association (DDFA) B Grade - 1951 (1 total); South West Gippsland Football League (SWGFL) - 1966, 1985-6-7, 1989-90-1, 1993 (8 total); Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League Northern Division - 1995 (1 total); Casey-Cardinia Section - 2011 (1 total); South East Football League - 2016 (1 total)

Postal Address
P.O. Box 161, Cranbourne 3977, Victoria

Website
www.cranbournefc.com.au/

Cranbourne

Cranbourne Football Club dates back at least as long ago as the 1890s and was a founder member in 1910 of the Berwick District Football Association. With the exception of wartime interludes the club competed in the BDFA until 1953, although the competition underwent a name change in 1933 to the Dandenong District Football Association. The 1954 season saw Cranbourne lining up as an inaugural member of the South West Gippsland Football League in which it struggled initially but ultimately went on to enjoy considerable success. The Eagles claimed their first senior grade SWGFL flag in 1966, but it was during the 1980s that they really stamped themselves as a force. Between 1985 and 1993 the side was a perennial finalist, and emerged victorious from no fewer than seven grand finals.

In 1995 the SWGFL was absorbed into the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League and Cranbourne achieved immediate success by defeating Karingal by eight points in that season’s Northern Division grand final. Later, competing in the MPNFL's Casey Cardinia section the Eagles contested four straight grand finals between 2011 and 2014, but emerged triumphant only from the first. In 2015 the Casey-Cardinia section's nine member clubs defected and set up a new competition, the South East Football League. Cranbourne made the grand final in their debut season, but lost to Berwick. In 2016 they again met the Wickers on grand final day and this time triumphed with scores of 15.9 (99) to 9.11 (65). The 2017 season brought a marginal decline in fortunes as the Eagles' premiership bid was halted at the preliminary final stage by Narre Warren, a result that was duplicated in 2018 in the newly formed Outer East Football Netball League. The Eagles' 2019 campaign came to an end in the first semi final at the hands of Beaconsfield.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications

 

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.