Australian Football

The original Sydney Football Club was one of eleven founder members, in 1903, of the New South Wales Australian Football League. The club was particularly strong during the years leading up to world war one. In the ten seasons between 1905 and 1914 it contested six grand finals for four wins, and only twice finished outside the top four places. After world war one success continued to come, but more sporadically, and for most of the 1930s and ‘40s the side struggled before finally going into abeyance at the end of the 1954 season.