Australian Football

East Ringwood

The early phase of East Ringwood’s history, from the club’s formation in 1930 through to the early war years, was spent in the Ringwood District Football League in which it struggled for many seasons before annexing a first flag in 1941. After the war the RDFL became known as the Croydon Mail Football League, with East Ringwood enjoying a second flag triumph in 1947.

Between 1950 and 1956 the club’s senior team was coached by Fred Cook who masterminded successive premierships in 1953 and 1954 in a competition by then named the Croydon Ferntree Gully Football League. Further flags in this competition followed in 1957 and 1961 before East Ringwood became a foundation member in 1962 of the Eastern District Football League.

Virtually all of the Kangaroos’ time in the E(D)FL has been spent in Division One, with grand final victories coming their way in 1966 at the expense of East Burwood, 1984 against Mitcham, and most recently in 2002 versus East Burwood once more. There were also losing Division One grand final appearances in 1962, 1964, 1977, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997,  and 2001. The Roos’ sole Division Two success came in 1974 - their only season so far at that level - when they accounted for Ringwood in the grand final by 8 points. Recent seasons have been something of a struggle, and there have been no finals appearances since 2008. For example, they finished tenth in 2016, ninth in 2017, 11th in 2018 and seventh in 2019 on what until the last of those seasons was a 12 team premiership ladder. As of 2019 it became a 10 club competition.