Australian Football

Tyabb

An earlier incarnation of the Tyabb Football Club won a hat trick of premierships in the Peninsula District Football Association between 1921 and 1923. As time went on, however, the club began to struggle to attract sufficient players, and in 1952 it went into recess. Today’s Tyabb Football Club was born in 1977 and competed in the Nepean Football League, without achieving senior grade premiership success, until 1987, when the NFL merged with the Mornington Peninsula Football League to form the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League. Tyabb’s sole senior grade premiership in this competition arrived in 2000 in the Nepean Division courtesy of an impressive 20.9 (129) to 10.15 (75) grand final defeat of Keysborough. The 2000 season was especially noteworthy for the Yabbies whose reserve grade team also went top for the first and, to date, only time in the MPNFL.

The Yabbies have endured a dismal time of late, succumbing to four successive wooden spoons from 2014 to 2017 before improving slightly to finish eleventh (of twelve) in 2018.