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KEY FACTS

Official name
Longwarry Football Club

Known as
Longwarry

Formed
c 1900s

Colours
Navy blue, red and gold

Emblem
Crows

Affiliation (Current)
Ellinbank & District Football Netball League (EDFNL) 1989–2024

Affiliations (Historical)
Central Gippsland Football League (CGFL) 1910–1926; West Gippsland Football League (WGFL) 1927–1988

Senior Premierships
West Gippsland Football Association/League (WGFA/L) - 1930, 1932, 1940, 1950, 1959-60, 1968 (7 total)

Website
www.longwarryfc.vcfl.com.au

Longwarry

During its stint of precisely sixty seasons in the West Gippsland Football League (originally Association) Longwarry won a highly respectable seven senior grade flags. The first of these came in 1930, when Lang Lang was defeated in the grand final. Two years later Pakenham was similarly dealt with, as was the case again in 1940.

The period between 1944 and 1969 might reasonably be described as Longwarry’s golden era. The seniors regularly contested the finals, including seven grand finals, and went top on four occasions. However, between the club’s last grand final appearance in 1969 and its departure from the WGFL twenty seasons later it only contested one more finals series.

Since transferring to the Ellinbank and District Football League in 1989 Longwarry has not added to its haul of senior grade premierships. However, when the competition was split into Eastern and Western Divisions in 2014 the Crows made it as far as the grand final (of Eastern Division) for the first and so far only time. Opponents Buln Buln proved too strong, however, and won comfortably by 26 points.

Subsequent seasons have seen the Crows coming ninth of fifteen (2015), twelfth of fifteen (2016), and sixth of ten (2017) before fighting their way through to the 2018 grand final, only to lose by 4 points to Nyora.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications

 

Footnotes

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