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KEY FACTS

Official name
Mount Pleasant Football Club

Known as
Mount Pleasant

Nickname
Mounts

Formed
1889

Colours
Blue and white

Emblem
Blues

Affiliation (Current)
Heathcote District Football League (HDFL) 1935–2024

Affiliation (Historical)
Campaspe Valley Football Association (CVFA) 1920–1934

Senior Premierships
Heathcote District Football League - 1962, 1966-7-8, 1971, 1979, 1980-1, 1983-4, 1990, 1993-4-5, 1997, 2000-1, 2005-6 (19 total)

Mount Pleasant

With a total of nineteen senior grade Heathcote District Football League premierships to their credit the Mounts have been by some measure the competition’s most successful club. In addition to their flags, they have finished second ten times. The club’s first grand final appearance came in 1938, but this proved to be the first of three successive losses. 

After the war there were further grand final defeats in 1956 and 1960 before the Mounts, as they were known at the time, broke through for their first premiership, achieved at the expense of Heathcote Rovers, in 1962. Between 1965 and 1968 Mount Pleasant contested every grand final, emerging victorious from all but the first of these. The success continued into the 1970s with grand final triumphs in 1971 and 1979, the latter the first of another premiership hat trick. 

The 1980s brought four flags from five grand finals while the 1990s proved to be the most successful decade in the club’s history with the Mounts only failing to reach the grand final twice. Victories were obtained in 1990, 1993, 1994 and 1995 against Heathcote, and 1997 at the expense of Elmore. During the first decade of this century Mount Pleasant’s seniors contested another four grand finals and won them all. Their most recent senior grade flag came in 2006 via a 19.13 (127) to 13.12 (90) grand final defeat of Elmore. In subsequent years they have experienced modest fortunes and only once, in 2014, did they manage to qualify for the finals.

Mount Pleasant’s reserves have, like the seniors, amassed more HDFL premierships - in their case thirteen - than any of their rivals.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications


 

Footnotes

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