Australian Football

Keysborough

The ‘Burras’ most successful decades were the 1960s and 1970s which spawned a total of four senior grade premierships, all in the South West Gippsland Football League. The club’s only other post-war senior grade flag was won in the Dandenong District Football Association’s B Grade competition in 1948.

In 1995, Keysborough crossed to the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League, which that year absorbed the old SWGFL. Arguably the club’s best season in this competition was 2000 when the seniors reached the Nepean Division grand final, only to lose by 54 points to Tyabb. Eight years later the seniors again contested the grand final, this time in the Casey Cardinia League, but it was an eminently forgettable experience as they went down to Narre Warren by the unconscionable margin of 131 points.

The 2015 season saw the 'Burras commencing in Division Two of the Southern Football League and finishing their debut season in fourth place. A year later they disappointed somewhat in sliding down the ladder to eighth, but in 2017 they acquitted themselves well in climbing up to third, a result that was repeated in 2018.