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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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1979 Season (WANFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1979 Fixture

Rnd
H&A
Club
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
R
Opponent
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
Mgn
Grd
Date
SC
1 H East Fremantle 4.211.612.618.10 118 WON Swan Districts 0.41.59.1311.13 79 39 EFO Mar 31 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 A East Fremantle 4.57.1118.1421.17 143 WON Claremont 4.48.511.715.11 101 42 CLM Apr 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 H East Fremantle 1.36.99.1317.18 120 WON South Fremantle 4.78.1112.1614.19 103 17 EFO Apr 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 H East Fremantle 2.44.57.89.16 70 WON East Perth 1.35.66.98.10 58 12 EFO Apr 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 H East Fremantle 3.57.1311.1618.24 132 WON West Perth 3.57.613.817.12 114 18 EFO Apr 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 A East Fremantle 3.48.810.913.12 90 LOST Perth 3.56.711.1015.18 108 -18 LAT May 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 H East Fremantle 6.211.922.1527.21 183 WON Subiaco 2.16.27.88.9 57 126 EFO May 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 A East Fremantle 7.210.314.1022.16 148 WON Swan Districts 1.210.1215.1620.20 140 8 BAS May 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H East Fremantle 6.811.1113.1417.18 120 LOST Claremont 5.37.813.1121.14 140 -20 EFO May 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 A East Fremantle 4.28.615.1120.15 135 LOST South Fremantle 3.107.1712.2320.30 150 -15 FRE Jun 4 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
11 A East Fremantle 4.310.610.818.12 120 LOST East Perth 4.37.417.625.8 158 -38 POV Jun 9 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 A East Fremantle 1.24.67.910.11 71 LOST West Perth 6.69.1010.1412.16 88 -17 LEE Jun 16 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 H East Fremantle 4.314.717.922.14 146 WON Perth 7.59.614.916.11 107 39 EFO Jun 23 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A East Fremantle 7.99.1611.2117.25 127 WON Subiaco 4.111.615.1017.11 113 14 SUB Jun 30 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 H East Fremantle 5.57.913.1719.21 135 WON Swan Districts 0.24.76.107.11 53 82 EFO Jul 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 A East Fremantle 5.97.129.1510.17 77 LOST Claremont 4.310.1115.1624.19 163 -86 CLM Jul 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 A East Fremantle 2.08.814.1420.22 142 WON South Fremantle 5.118.1314.1317.17 119 23 FRE Jul 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 H East Fremantle 3.35.810.1313.15 93 LOST East Perth 9.218.424.631.10 196 -103 EFO Aug 4 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 H East Fremantle 4.713.1122.1532.23 215 WON West Perth 5.19.813.1119.12 126 89 EFO Aug 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
20 A East Fremantle 3.14.28.511.6 72 WON Perth 1.34.78.128.16 64 8 LAT Aug 18 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
21 H East Fremantle 3.311.817.1025.16 166 WON Subiaco 1.34.48.813.8 86 80 EFO Aug 25 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
1SF H East Fremantle 6.213.416.819.14 128 WON East Perth 6.69.913.1418.18 126 2 SUB Sep 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
PF H East Fremantle 6.513.915.1419.20 134 WON Claremont 4.58.715.1215.17 107 27 SUB Sep 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF A East Fremantle 3.510.1313.1621.19 145 WON South Fremantle 4.58.1014.1416.16 112 33 SUB Sep 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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