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Official name
Dandenong Football and Netball Club
Known as
Dandenong
Nickname
Demons
Former name
Dandenong West
Former name date
2003-01-01
Formed
1963: first fielded a senior team in 1984
Colours
Blue and red
Emblem
Redlegs
Associated clubs
Dandenong
Affiliation (Current)
Southern Football Netball League (SFNL) 1993–2024
Affiliation (Historical)
Eastern Suburban Churches Football League (ESCFL) 1984–1992
Originally known as Dandenong West, the club competed for a time in the Eastern Suburban Churches Football Association, reaching a D Grade grand final in 1991, but losing to Box Hill North. In 1993 Dandenong West was a foundation member of the Southern Football League which came into being as a result of a merger between a previous incarnation of the Southern Football League and the ESCFA. The 2004 season brought a name change to the Dandenong Demons, and the club also altered its official colours from blue and white to blue and red, evoking memories of the famous Dandenong Football Club which enjoyed considerable success in the Victorian Football Association. The Demons were members for some time of the SFL’s Third Division. In 2016 they won three out of 18 home and away matches to finish just one place from bottom of the ladder before faring even worse in 2017 when they lost all 18 matches contested in slumping to the wooden spoon. In 2018 the SFL introduced a fourth division and that was where Dandenong ended up, winning four out of 17 matches to finish seventh of eight teams. A year later they managed just a solitary win which almost inevitably consigned them to another wooden spoon.
John Devaney - Full Points Publications