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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
M. Cowan

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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1976 Season (WANFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1976 Fixture

Rnd
H&A
Club
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
R
Opponent
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
Mgn
Grd
Date
SC
1 A East Fremantle 5.310.1310.1617.17 119 WON Subiaco 3.45.49.810.14 74 45 SUB Apr 3 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 H East Fremantle 3.59.715.919.15 129 WON Perth 5.49.512.1015.12 102 27 EFO Apr 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 H East Fremantle 7.312.416.516.10 106 LOST Claremont 4.56.610.816.11 107 -1 EFO Apr 19 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
4 A East Fremantle 5.68.1114.1519.16 130 WON Swan Districts 1.45.911.1115.14 104 26 BAS Apr 26 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
5 A East Fremantle 3.47.611.1012.12 84 LOST East Perth 4.17.39.513.11 89 -5 POV May 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 H East Fremantle 3.210.214.1018.13 121 LOST South Fremantle 6.411.617.721.10 136 -15 EFO May 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 A East Fremantle 4.68.913.1116.12 108 LOST West Perth 6.212.617.1019.10 124 -16 LEE May 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 H East Fremantle 6.611.816.1519.21 135 WON Subiaco 2.13.14.59.8 62 73 EFO May 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 A East Fremantle 2.76.118.1411.21 87 LOST Perth 8.114.420.827.12 174 -87 LAT May 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 A East Fremantle 2.14.75.128.21 69 LOST Claremont 3.79.918.1124.13 157 -88 CLM Jun 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 H East Fremantle 6.512.621.1024.11 155 WON Swan Districts 5.111.613.1016.19 115 40 EFO Jun 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 H East Fremantle 3.411.815.1222.17 149 WON East Perth 6.28.313.717.10 112 37 EFO Jun 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 A East Fremantle 3.44.57.1010.12 72 LOST South Fremantle 3.510.715.918.16 124 -52 FRE Jul 3 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 H East Fremantle 4.04.36.39.7 61 LOST West Perth 1.33.58.79.11 65 -4 EFO Jul 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 A East Fremantle 1.32.76.912.13 85 LOST Subiaco 4.49.1013.1420.22 142 -57 SUB Jul 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 H East Fremantle 3.18.510.925.17 167 WON Perth 4.65.911.1314.14 98 69 EFO Jul 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 H East Fremantle 8.113.1416.2024.21 165 WON Claremont 6.28.512.614.7 91 74 EFO Jul 31 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 A East Fremantle 1.56.1010.1225.18 168 WON Swan Districts 3.114.136.176.17 53 115 BAS Aug 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 A East Fremantle 3.64.78.89.12 66 LOST East Perth 4.47.118.1616.18 114 -48 POV Aug 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
20 H East Fremantle 2.27.58.812.15 87 LOST South Fremantle 5.011.717.1129.15 189 -102 EFO Aug 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
21 A East Fremantle 2.26.78.108.14 62 LOST West Perth 7.47.710.813.12 90 -28 LEE Aug 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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