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KEY FACTS

Official name
Pakenham Football Club

Known as
Pakenham

Nickname
Lions

Formed
1892

Colours
Maroon, blue and gold

Associated clubs
Pakenham WFC

Affiliation (Current)
Outer East Football Netball (OEFN) 2019–2024

Affiliations (Historical)
Berwick and District Football Association (BDFA) 1908–1925; Cora Lynn and District Football League (CLDFL) 1926; West Gippsland Football League (WGFL) 1927–1935, 1938–2001; Dandenong and District Football Association (DDFA) 1936–1937; Mornington Peninsula Football Netball League (MPFNL) 2002–2014; South East Football Netball League (SEFNL) 2015–2018

Senior Premierships
Berwick District Football Association (BDFA) - 1909, 1914 (2 total); Berwick Dandenong Football Association (BDaFA) - 1924-5 (2 total); Cora Lynn and District Junior Football Association (CL&DFA) - 1926 (1 total); West Gippsland Football League (WGFL) - 1927, 1929, 1935, 1947-8, 1951-2, 1955-6-7, 1962, 1972-3-4, 1982, 1987-8-9-90, 1998, 2000 (21 total); MPNFL Peninsula Division/Casey Cardinia Section - 2002, 2009 (2 total)

Pakenham

The Pakenham Football Club can trace its history back to a meeting held at the Gembrook Hotel in the town on 16th March 1892. During that year and for the better part of a decade afterwards the club engaged only in scratch matches against local rivals such as Berwick, Cranbourne, Dandenong and Warragul. Pakenham’s competitive history got underway during the early 1900s when the club joined the Berwick District Football Association. The 1909 season brought a first ever premiership, and five years later this success was repeated.

The 1920s saw Pakenham embarking on a peripatetic existence which at one point spawned four successive flags in three different competitions. The club finally found a long term home in 1927 when it affiliated with the West Gippsland Football League. Pakenham remained a member of this competition until it merged with the Gippsland Latrobe Valley Football League to form the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League after the 2001 football season. During that time the Lions were by some measure the competition’s most successful club, claiming a total of twenty-one senior grade premierships. Nearest rival Garfield won eight.

Pakenham’s success story continued after the club commenced in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League in 2002 with the club playing off in senior grade grand finals four times, emerging victorious in 2002 against Narre Warren and 2009 at the expense of Doveton.

In 2015 Pakenham was one of nine founder members of the South East Football League. Their first four seasons have seen them finish sixth (both 2015 and 2016), eighth (2017) and seventh (2018).

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications

 

Footnotes

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