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KEY FACTS

Official name
East Fremantle Football Club

Known as
East Fremantle

Nickname
Sharks (formerly 'Old Easts')

Formed
1898

Colours
Royal blue and white

Associated clubs
East Fremantle Reserves; East Fremantle U19s; East Fremantle WFC

Affiliation (Current)
West Australian Football League (WAFL) 1898–2025

Home Ground
East Fremantle Oval

WAFL Premierships
1900, 1902-03-04, 1906, 1908-09-10-11, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1928-29-30-31, 1933, 1937, 1943*, 1945-46, 1957, 1965, 1974, 1979, 1985, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2023 (30 total)

Senior Premierships
WA State Premierships: 1904, 1906, 1909-10 (4 total); R.P. Rodriguez Shield: 1957, 1977, 1985, 1996, 1997, 1998 (6 total)

Most Games
305 - Brian Peake (1972-1980, 1985-1990)

Most Goals
1095 - George Doig (1933-1945)

League Top Goalkickers
E.Kelly (25) 1904; H.Sharpe (50) 1905, (34) 1906, (48) 1907 & (22) 1908; A.Rawlinson (32) 1917; J.Lawn (47) 1919. Bernie Naylor Medallists: D.Coffey (36) 1923; G.Doig (106) 1933, (152) 1934, (113) 1935, (109) 1936, (144) 1937 & (141) 1941; G.Prince (82) 1949; R.Johnson (92) 1966; K.Taylor (102) 1979; N.Lester-Smith (90) 1989; R.Tregenza (57) 1999 & (86) 2000 (20 total)

Sandover Medalists
Lin Richards 1931; Jim Conway 1950; Jack Clarke 1957; Ray Sorrell 1961 & 1963; David Hollins 1971; Graham Melrose 1974; Brian Peake 1977; Murray Wrensted 1985; Craig Treleven 1995; Adrian Bromage 1998; Rory O'Brien 2013 (11 Medallists/12 Medals)

Headquarters
Moss St & Marmion St, East Fremantle, WA 6158

Postal Address
PO Box 43, Palmyra, WA, 6157

Phone: (08) 9339 5533 

Email
admin@effc.com.au

Website
effc.com.au

President
C. Doig

East Fremantle



"With skipper Graham Melrose playing probably the best football of his life to secure not only the Sandover Medal but virtually every media award going, East Fremantle at long last returned to the winners’ list in 1974. In what, even for the era, was an extraordinarily closely contested season, East Fremantle finished the home and away rounds in pole position half a game clear of Perth (and, indeed, just six and a half games ahead of wooden spooners West Perth). Once the finals arrived, however, East Fremantle became pre-eminently, as the cliché has it, “a team on a mission” ... "

  • John Devaney reports on the must successful club side in WA football, the mighty Sharks of East Fremantle

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1927 Season (WAFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1927 Fixture

Rnd
H&A
Club
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
R
Opponent
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
Mgn
Grd
Date
SC
1 East Fremantle       Bye        
2 A East Fremantle 2.310.512.619.10 124 WON Claremont 0.31.63.114.12 36 88 CLM Apr 30 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 A East Fremantle 1.43.73.84.9 33 LOST South Fremantle 1.15.28.612.9 81 -48 FRE May 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 A East Fremantle 2.35.98.1513.18 96 WON West Perth 5.25.26.58.9 57 39 LEE May 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 A East Fremantle 0.00.00.015.11 101 WON East Perth 0.00.00.07.14 56 45 POV May 18 (Wed, 12:00) Scores
6 H East Fremantle 4.35.56.1010.11 71 WON Subiaco 1.24.74.108.13 61 10 FRE May 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 H East Fremantle 3.65.95.157.18 60 WON Perth 5.17.27.38.4 52 8 FRE May 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 East Fremantle       Bye        
9 H East Fremantle 2.46.118.129.20 74 WON Claremont 3.73.116.156.19 55 19 FRE Jun 6 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
10 H East Fremantle 1.43.83.134.16 40 LOST South Fremantle 4.35.67.79.8 62 -22 FRE Jun 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 H East Fremantle 0.14.28.411.11 77 LOST West Perth 3.56.610.912.11 83 -6 FRE Jun 18 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 H East Fremantle 4.25.58.89.10 64 LOST East Perth 2.29.410.613.9 87 -23 FRE Jun 25 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 A East Fremantle 0.24.55.610.10 70 LOST Subiaco 6.46.610.1010.14 74 -4 SUB Jul 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A East Fremantle 2.66.96.108.11 59 LOST Perth 1.15.310.614.12 96 -37 WAC Jul 9 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 East Fremantle       Bye        
16 H East Fremantle 0.45.59.910.12 72 WON Claremont 2.23.44.68.8 56 16 FRE Jul 30 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 H East Fremantle 2.12.48.108.12 60 WON South Fremantle 1.23.35.57.7 49 11 FRE Aug 6 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 H East Fremantle 0.36.77.810.12 72 WON West Perth 2.24.48.88.9 57 15 FRE Aug 13 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 H East Fremantle 3.47.48.710.10 70 WON East Perth 1.25.38.68.7 55 15 FRE Aug 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
20 A East Fremantle 5.46.810.1011.10 76 WON Subiaco 0.04.38.811.9 75 1 SUB Sep 3 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
21 H East Fremantle 1.43.104.128.16 64 LOST Perth 10.311.614.1016.11 107 -43 FRE Sep 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
1SF A East Fremantle 4.25.39.411.5 71 LOST South Fremantle 0.54.95.1211.13 79 -8 FRE Sep 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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