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KEY FACTS

Official name
Kerang Football Netball Club Inc.

Known as
Kerang

Nickname
Blues

Former name
Kerang Rovers Appin

Former name date
2000-01-01

Formed
1996 (merger of Kerang Rovers and Appin)

Colours
Navy blue and white

Associated clubs
Appin; Kerang WFC; Kerang Rovers; Kerang (Original)

Affiliation (Current)
Central Murray Football Netball League (CMFNL) 1997–2024

Senior Premierships
Central Murray Football League - 2004, 2010, 2012-13-14-15-16-17, 2022-23 (10 total)

Postal Address
P.O. Box 230, Kerang, Victoria 3579

Website
www.kerangfc.com.au

Kerang

Kerang’s heritage is, by any standards, remarkably convoluted. The club was formed in 1996 through the merger of Kerang Rovers and Appin. The new club was known initially as Kerang Rovers Appin before changing its name to Kerang in 2000. Prior to the merger, Appin had been a member of the Kerang and District Football League since 1945, claiming two senior flags.

Kerang Rovers had been established in 1991 when Northern and Echuca Football League rivals Kerang and Kerang Rovers amalgamated, with the resultant club retaining Kerang Rovers’ name and navy blue and white colours. Much of the original Kerang Rovers club’s history had been spent in the KDFL alongside Appin. In 1954, 1971 and 1975 the club won senior grade premierships. Kerang had also briefly been a member of the KDFL, and had won the 1946 premiership in that competition. However, between 1953 and 1989 the club had competed in the Northern District Football League, claiming senior grade premiership success on four occasions. In 1990 Kerang reached the grand final of the Northern and Echuca Football League, but lost to Union.

Today’s Kerang Football Club has recently stamped itself as the Central Murray Football League's pre-eminent force after claiming six successive premierships (for a total of seven) between 2012 and 2017. The 2018 season brought a slight fall from grace as the Blues' season was brought to an end by Mallee Eagles at the preliminary final stage.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications

 

Footnotes

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