Australian Football

The Lakers, or Lakies, were members of the Learmonth District Football Association and, briefly, the Burrumbeet and District Football Association prior to joining the Clunes Football Association in 1940, which was the competition’s tenth season.

Learmonth’s two CFA/L premierships came in 1952 and 1955. The side was runner-up in 1977. No senior flags have yet been claimed in the Central Highlands Football League, of which the Lakers were founder members in 1979. In 1994 they reached the grand final from the elimination final, but lost to Dunnstown. More recently they got as far as the 2009 preliminary final but generally speaking, over the past decade or so, performances have tended to be disappointing. For example they finished eleventh in both 2015 and 2016, and tenth in both 2017 and 2018 on what is an eight team premiership ladder.