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KEY FACTS

Official name
Newbridge Football Club

Known as
Newbridge

Former name
Played as Newbridge Laancoorie in 1947

Formed
c 1900

Colours
Maroon and white

Emblem
Maroons

Associated clubs
Laanecoorie

Affiliation (Current)
Loddon Valley Football Netball League (LVFNL) 1903–2024

Senior Premierships
Loddon Valley Football League - 1905-6-7-8-9-10, 1912, 1929–30, 1933, 1937, 1957, 1978, 1993, 2000, 2018 (16 total)

Newbridge

Newbridge’s tally of fifteen senior grade Loddon Valley Football League premierships is a competition record shared with Bridgewater. However, eight of those flags came the Maroons’ way in the space of nine seasons prior to the first world war. Between 1904 and 1910 Newbridge won every premiership on offer - a staggering seven in succession - and few clubs anywhere can boast a similar sequence of triumphs. The Maroons were also a force during the late 1920s and early 1930s, emerging victorious from three grand finals in five seasons, but since then success has only been sporadically achieved. The club’s most recent senior grade premiership was attained in 2000 while its most recent grand final appearance came in 2012 against Bridgewater, who won by 65 points. After a couple of mediocre seasons the Maroons returned to the finals fray in 2017 and ultimately finished third before procuring a long awaited sixteenth senior grade flag a year later. Top of the ladder ahead of the finals Newbridge accounted for Maiden Gully YCW Eagles in the second semi final by 50 points before overcoming Mitiamo on grand final day with scores of 11.11 (77) to 4.9 (33). Only Bridgewater, with twenty-two premierships, have a better overall record than the Maroons.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications


 

Footnotes

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