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KEY FACTS

Official name
Leitchville & Gunbower Football Netball Club Inc.

Known as
Leitchville Gunbower

Formed
1995: merger of Leitchville and Gunbower

Colours
Black, red and yellow

Emblem
Bombers

Associated clubs
Leitchville; Gunbower

Affiliation (Current)
Heathcote District Football League (HDFL) 2010–2024

Affiliations (Historical)
Northern and Echuca Football League (NEFL) 1995–1996; North Central Football League (NCFL) 1998–2001; Central Murray Football Netball League (CMFNL) 2002–2009

Senior Premierships
Northern and Echuca Football League (NEFL) - 1995 (1 total); Heathcote District Football League - 2017-18 (2 total)

Postal Address
P.O. Box 11, Leitchville, Victoria 3567

Website
www.leitchvillegunbowerfc.vcfl.com.au

Leitchville Gunbower

The Bombers were born in 1995 through the merger of erstwhile Northern and Echuca Football League rivals Leitchville and Gunbower. Leitchville was in fact the reigning premier of the competition, ensuring that the newly merged club, which would continue in the NEFL, boasted a strong nucleus of players. It promptly endorsed this by claiming the 1995 premiership thanks to a 3 point grand final victory over Moama.

At the end of the 1996 season the NEFL disbanded, and Leitchville Gunbower joined the North Central Football League, in which it competed for five seasons, reaching the finals for the only time in the last of them. Between 2002 and 2009 the Bombers competed in the Central Murray Football League where they failed to claim a flag at any level, although the reserves went close in 2007, losing to Balranald in the grand final.

The 2010 season saw Leitchville Gunbower transferring to the Heathcote District Football League in which, after a shaky first few seasons which included the 2012 wooden spoon, they have done themselves credit. A year after finishing last they qualified for the finals for the first time, an achievement duplicated every season since. In both 2015 and 2016 they reached the grand final only to lose to North Bendigo on both occasions by margins of 10 and 20 points. A year later they made comprehensive amends when, after qualifying for their third consecutive grand final, they comfortably accounted for North Bendigo with scores of 15.18 (108) to 12.10 (82). Then, in 2018, they once again opposed North Bendigo in the decisive match of the year and duly went back to back with a hard fought 14.10 (94) to 12.13 (85) triumph.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications

 

Footnotes

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