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Official name
Navarre Football Club
Known as
Navarre
Formed
1911
Colours
Green and gold
Emblem
Grasshoppers
Affiliation (Current)
Maryborough Castlemaine District Football Netball League (MCDFNL) 2011–2024
Affiliations (Historical)
Landsborough Football Association (LFA) 1914–1923; Wimmera Valley Football Association (WVFA) 1924; South Wimmera Football League (SWFL) 1929–1930; Mountain Creek Football Association (MCFA) 1926–1928, 1931–1933; Kara Kara Football League (CKKFL) 1934–1940; Lexton Football League (LFL) 1946–1998; Lexton Plains Football League (LPFL) 1999–2010
Senior Premierships
Lexton Football League (LFL) - 1949, 1951-2, 1954, 1958-9, 1961, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1989-90-1 (13 total); Lexton Plains Football League - 1999 (1 total); Maryborough Castlemaine District Football League - 2013-14-15-16 (4 total)
Postal Address
c/o Post Office, Navarre, Victoria 3384
Navarre was a key member of the Lexton Football League for many years, and its achievement in winning thirteen senior grade premierships was only exceeded by Lexton, which claimed one more. When, in 1999, the LFL merged with the Western Plains Football League to form the Lexton Plains Football League Navarre was one of eleven foundation member clubs. The Grasshoppers reached their only LPFL senior grade grand final in that inaugural season and duly claimed the premiership with an 18.14 (122) to 14.7 (91) grand final defeat of Carngham Linton.
At the end of the 2010 season the LPFL folded and the following year saw Navarre commemorating their centenary as a club by lining up in the Maryborough Castlemaine District Football League in which they immediately set out their stall by making the grand final on debut. Opponents and fellow former LPFL side Natte Bealiba proved too strong on this occasion, as did Carisbrook in the following year's grand final. In 2013, however, the Hoppers made no mistake, trouncing Lexton on grand final day by 101 points. This proved to be just the first in what would be a league record equalling [1] sequence of four successive winning grand finals, with Carisbrook providing the opposition in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and Navarre winning by margins of 55, 61 and 41 points. The same two sides again met on grand final day in 2017 but on this occasion Carisbrook proved to have the Grasshoppers' measure and eased home by 20 points. A year later Navarre dropped down the ladder to fourth.
John Devaney - Full Points Publications