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KEY FACTS

Official name
Kalkee Football Club

Known as
Kalkee

Nickname
Kees

Formed
1890

Colours
Royal blue and red

Emblem
Killers

Affiliation (Current)
Horsham District Football Netball League (HDFNL) 1945–1948, 1954–2024

Affiliation (Historical)
Central Wimmera Football League (CWFL) 1949–1951

Senior Premierships
Horsham District Football League - 1946-7-8, 1974, 1978-9, 1982-3, 1989, 2000, 2008-9-10-11-12 (15 total)

Website
www.kalkee.vcfl.com.au/

Kalkee

With a total of fifteen senior grade premierships to their credit the Killers have been the Horsham and District Football League’s most successful club. They commenced in the competition in 1945, ten years after its formation, and rapidly imposed themselves by becoming the first club to claim a hat trick of premierships. They did this between 1946 and 1948, scoring grand final wins over Homers by 17 points, Wonwondah by 3 points, and Horsham RSL by 15 points. In 1949 the club crossed to the Central Wimmera Football League, finishing as runner-up in its debut season, but failing to claim any flags during its time of involvement in the competition, which came to an end in 1952, after which it spent a year in recess. Upon reforming the following season, Kalkee affiliated once more with the HDFL where it has remained ever since.

Kalkee Football Club was formed in 1890, and between then and the outbreak of the first world war competed in a number of different associations, claiming at least a couple of premierships, although details are difficult to come by. During the 1920s and early 1930s the club once again participated in several different competitions before encountering hard times and going into recess in 1935.

After resuming in the HDFL in 1954 the Red and Blues, as they were known at the time, found the going tough, and it was a couple of decades before they re-emerged as a force. In 1974 they qualified for the grand final, and were narrow victors over Natimuk, 11.13 (79) to 10.13 (73).

In contrast to the preceding couple of decades, the next two would see Kalkee consistently featuring at the ‘business end’ of the season. The seniors' next grand final appearance came in 1977, but resulted in a loss to Quantong by 10 points. The following year they made emphatic amends when they trounced Laharum in the grand final by 102 points, and the 1979 season brought back to back premiership honours at the expense of Quantong.

During the 1980s the Red and Blues added another three flags courtesy of grand final wins over Pimpinio in 1982, Noradjuha in 1983, and St Michael’s in a replay in 1989. The 1990s brought four senior grade grand final appearances, but no further premierships. Kalkee’s seniors did not again go top until the 2000 season when they accounted for Rupanyup in the grand final by a margin of four straight kicks, 9.12 (66) to 6.6 (42).

During the last decade the Killers have reinforced their status as the competition's most consistently successful club with a sequence of six straight grand final appearances from 2008 to 2013, the first five of which spawned premierships. They again reached the grand final in 2015 but went down by 48 points to Laharum. By contrast, the next couple of seasons were rather less noteworthy with the side finishing fourth in 2016 and eighth in 2017. Then in 2018 the Killers again qualified for the grand final, but opponents Harrow Balmoral proved to  be too strong.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications


 

Footnotes

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