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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
M. Cowan

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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1978 Season (WANFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1978 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 A East Fremantle 5.88.1111.2216.25 121 WON Swan Districts 1.38.79.712.10 82 39 BAS Mar 27 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
2 H East Fremantle 5.28.713.1121.15 141 WON Claremont 7.27.512.814.9 93 48 EFO Apr 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 H East Fremantle 5.25.611.1116.15 111 LOST South Fremantle 4.512.1118.1424.18 162 -51 EFO Apr 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 A East Fremantle 4.56.810.1013.12 90 LOST East Perth 6.213.316.622.8 140 -50 POV Apr 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 A East Fremantle 5.79.717.723.9 147 LOST West Perth 4.414.917.1323.16 154 -7 LEE Apr 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 H East Fremantle 9.412.817.1220.18 138 WON Perth 4.05.67.910.13 73 65 EFO Apr 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 A East Fremantle 9.412.717.1221.15 141 LOST Subiaco 4.410.417.1524.22 166 -25 SUB May 6 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 H East Fremantle 5.59.714.1219.13 127 WON Swan Districts 3.49.512.1115.14 104 23 EFO May 13 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 A East Fremantle 6.36.611.1018.12 120 WON Claremont 4.39.109.1211.13 79 41 CLM May 20 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 H East Fremantle 3.94.108.1411.16 82 WON East Perth 0.35.68.88.11 59 23 EFO May 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 A East Fremantle 3.47.511.1214.14 98 LOST South Fremantle 3.711.1115.1221.13 139 -41 FRE Jun 5 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
12 H East Fremantle 2.212.518.622.7 139 LOST West Perth 6.68.714.1122.13 145 -6 EFO Jun 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 A East Fremantle 7.49.412.914.13 97 LOST Perth 3.36.912.1516.19 115 -18 LAT Jun 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 H East Fremantle 7.48.617.923.14 152 WON Subiaco 1.18.48.410.6 66 86 EFO Jul 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 A East Fremantle 7.412.516.719.11 125 WON Swan Districts 3.48.713.1217.17 119 6 BAS Jul 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 H East Fremantle 6.38.711.1015.17 107 WON Claremont 2.25.46.76.10 46 61 EFO Jul 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 H East Fremantle 5.28.512.1418.15 123 WON South Fremantle 5.111.414.717.8 110 13 EFO Jul 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 A East Fremantle 1.37.715.1219.12 126 LOST East Perth 8.416.817.825.14 164 -38 POV Aug 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 A East Fremantle 2.55.710.1014.16 100 LOST West Perth 9.412.720.1323.14 152 -52 LEE Aug 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
20 H East Fremantle 5.78.1111.1614.20 104 LOST Perth 4.211.613.716.9 105 -1 EFO Aug 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
21 A East Fremantle 5.49.913.1516.15 111 LOST Subiaco 3.38.1011.1218.15 123 -12 SUB Aug 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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