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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

President
W. H. Kitson

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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1944 Season (WANFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1944 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 H East Fremantle 2.46.1110.1416.19 115 WON Claremont 1.22.24.45.4 34 81 FRE May 13 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 A East Fremantle 5.37.612.814.10 94 WON Perth 2.14.25.312.5 77 17 WAC May 20 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 A East Fremantle 1.12.56.510.8 68 LOST Subiaco 3.45.78.1114.15 99 -31 SUB May 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 H East Fremantle 3.25.58.711.12 78 WON South Fremantle 2.23.44.59.5 59 19 FRE Jun 3 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 H East Fremantle 2.43.135.158.22 70 WON West Perth 3.05.06.67.10 52 18 FRE Jun 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 A East Fremantle 3.24.67.1012.11 83 WON Swan Districts 0.36.67.610.7 67 16 POV Jun 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 H East Fremantle 0.23.45.411.8 74 LOST East Perth 3.56.511.1412.17 89 -15 SUB Jun 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 A East Fremantle 0.05.57.68.9 57 LOST Claremont 4.55.58.138.16 64 -7 CLM Jul 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H East Fremantle 3.37.69.612.14 86 WON Perth 2.34.39.1010.11 71 15 FRE Jul 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 H East Fremantle 4.18.69.79.12 66 WON Subiaco 2.23.55.128.17 65 1 FRE Jul 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 H East Fremantle 2.63.106.157.17 59 WON South Fremantle 1.21.43.66.8 44 15 FRE Jul 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 H East Fremantle 6.87.1111.1516.18 114 WON West Perth 0.02.34.35.4 34 80 SUB Jul 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 H East Fremantle 2.36.108.1213.15 93 WON Swan Districts 0.41.75.127.15 57 36 SUB Aug 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A East Fremantle 3.33.45.67.11 53 LOST East Perth 2.26.78.1111.16 82 -29 POV Aug 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 H East Fremantle 2.14.611.1312.14 86 WON Claremont 2.44.94.107.14 56 30 FRE Aug 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 A East Fremantle 1.13.54.712.8 80 WON Subiaco 3.35.58.811.10 76 4 SUB Aug 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 H East Fremantle 13.521.1230.1933.23 221 WON South Fremantle 1.31.41.52.8 20 201 FRE Sep 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 A East Fremantle 5.16.69.109.17 71 WON West Perth 4.55.88.129.14 68 3 LEE Sep 9 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 H East Fremantle 4.49.410.510.5 65 LOST East Perth 4.39.613.1316.23 119 -54 FRE Sep 16 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2SF A East Fremantle 2.35.86.129.20 74 LOST East Perth 6.211.213.614.8 92 -18 SUB Oct 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
PF A East Fremantle 1.54.68.1310.15 75 WON Perth 1.14.75.77.8 50 25 SUB Oct 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF A East Fremantle 1.32.132.164.17 41 LOST East Perth 5.36.411.914.13 97 -56 SUB Oct 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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