Australian Football

Yarram’s long, illustrious history, stretching back to 1887, has seen the club participate in five different competitions and claim at least fourteen senior grade premierships. The club’s pedigree has been further enhanced by the consistency of its record, with its flag winning seasons having occurred at regular intervals throughout most of its thirteen decade existence.

The Demons were founder members in 1946 of the Alberton Football League, and after a slow start gradually began to build in strength, contesting three successive preliminary finals between 1949 and 1951. Their breakthrough senior grade premiership finally arrived in 1954 when Yarram overcame the grand final challenge of Fish Creek.

The 1970s proved a most productive decade with the Demons reaching four grand finals for two wins. The 1986 flag was one of the most memorable as the side overcame the setback of a second semi final loss to Devon to trounce the same opposition by 64 points a fortnight later in the ‘big one’.

Yarram contested three straight grand finals between 2006 and 2008 but only the second of these was won. In 2014 the Demons elected to transfer to the North Gippsland Football League in which they have shown steady improvement, narrowly missing out on finals participation in their first couple of seasons before procuring it in 2016 when they ultimately finished third. In 2017 they enjoyed their best season since commencing in the NGFL, winning 16 of their 18 home and away matches to qualify for the finals in pole position. They ultimately reached the grand final but at that point the fairytale ended and opponents Sale City won at a canter with scores of 14.16 (100) to 5.11 (41). Nevertheless, on balance it could be seen as a season of immense promise on which the club could reasonably be expected to build in the imminent future. And so it proved, as in 2018 the Demons produced a superb campaign which entailed just a single loss in 20 outings culminating in an 8.17 (65) to 5.3 (33) grand final defeat of Churchill.