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KEY FACTS

Official name
East Fremantle Football Club

Known as
East Fremantle

Nickname
Sharks (formerly 'Old Easts')

Formed
1898

Colours
Royal blue and white

Associated clubs
East Fremantle Reserves; East Fremantle U19s; East Fremantle WFC

Affiliation (Current)
West Australian Football League (WAFL) 1898–2024

Home Ground
East Fremantle Oval

WAFL Premierships
1900, 1902-03-04, 1906, 1908-09-10-11, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1928-29-30-31, 1933, 1937, 1943*, 1945-46, 1957, 1965, 1974, 1979, 1985, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2023 (30 total)

Senior Premierships
WA State Premierships: 1904, 1906, 1909-10 (4 total); R.P. Rodriguez Shield: 1957, 1977, 1985, 1996, 1997, 1998 (6 total)

Most Games
305 - Brian Peake (1972-1980, 1985-1990)

Most Goals
1095 - George Doig (1933-1945)

League Top Goalkickers
E.Kelly (25) 1904; H.Sharpe (50) 1905, (34) 1906, (48) 1907 & (22) 1908; A.Rawlinson (32) 1917; J.Lawn (47) 1919. Bernie Naylor Medallists: D.Coffey (36) 1923; G.Doig (106) 1933, (152) 1934, (113) 1935, (109) 1936, (144) 1937 & (141) 1941; G.Prince (82) 1949; R.Johnson (92) 1966; K.Taylor (102) 1979; N.Lester-Smith (90) 1989; R.Tregenza (57) 1999 & (86) 2000 (20 total)

Sandover Medalists
Lin Richards 1931; Jim Conway 1950; Jack Clarke 1957; Ray Sorrell 1961 & 1963; David Hollins 1971; Graham Melrose 1974; Brian Peake 1977; Murray Wrensted 1985; Craig Treleven 1995; Adrian Bromage 1998; Rory O'Brien 2013 (11 Medallists/12 Medals)

Headquarters
Moss St & Marmion St, East Fremantle, WA 6158

Postal Address
PO Box 43, Palmyra, WA, 6157

Phone: (08) 9339 5533 

Email
admin@effc.com.au

Website
effc.com.au

East Fremantle



"With skipper Graham Melrose playing probably the best football of his life to secure not only the Sandover Medal but virtually every media award going, East Fremantle at long last returned to the winners’ list in 1974. In what, even for the era, was an extraordinarily closely contested season, East Fremantle finished the home and away rounds in pole position half a game clear of Perth (and, indeed, just six and a half games ahead of wooden spooners West Perth). Once the finals arrived, however, East Fremantle became pre-eminently, as the cliché has it, “a team on a mission” ... "

  • John Devaney reports on the must successful club side in WA football, the mighty Sharks of East Fremantle

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2024 Season (WAFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 2024 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 A East Fremantle        vs Peel Thunder          RUS Mar 30 (Sat, 2:10)  
2 A East Fremantle        vs Claremont          CLM Apr 6 (Sat, 2:30)  
3 A East Fremantle        vs West Coast Reserves          LAT Apr 14 (Sun, 10:00)  
4 East Fremantle       Bye        
5 A East Fremantle        vs Swan Districts          BAS Apr 28 (Sun, 2:30)  
6 A East Fremantle        vs Subiaco          LEE May 4 (Sat, 2:30)  
7 H East Fremantle        vs East Perth          EFO May 11 (Sat, 2:40)  
8 H East Fremantle        vs Perth          EFO May 25 (Sat, 2:30)  
9 A East Fremantle        vs South Fremantle          FRE Jun 3 (Mon, 2:30)  
10 H East Fremantle        vs West Perth          EFO Jun 8 (Sat, 2:30)  
11 H East Fremantle        vs Subiaco          EFO Jun 15 (Sat, 2:30)  
12 East Fremantle       Bye        
13 H East Fremantle        vs Claremont          EFO Jun 29 (Sat, 2:30)  
14 A East Fremantle        vs Perth          LAT Jul 6 (Sat, 2:30)  
15 H East Fremantle        vs Peel Thunder          EFO Jul 13 (Sat, 2:40)  
16 A East Fremantle        vs West Perth          AJO Jul 20 (Sat, 4:10)  
17 East Fremantle       Bye        
18 H East Fremantle        vs South Fremantle          EFO Aug 3 (Sat, 2:30)  
19 H East Fremantle        vs Swan Districts          EFO Aug 10 (Sat, 2:30)  
20 A East Fremantle        vs East Perth          LEE Aug 17 (Sat, 2:30)  
21 H East Fremantle        vs West Coast Reserves          EFO Aug 24 (Sat, 2:30)  
 

Footnotes

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