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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
R. B. Carter

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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1919 Season (WAFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1919 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 1.05.37.49.5 59 LOST South Fremantle 2.83.106.1310.17 77 -18 FRE May 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 H East Fremantle 2.12.24.24.3 27 LOST East Perth 1.31.61.134.14 38 -11 FRE May 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 A East Fremantle 3.27.410.612.7 79 WON Subiaco 2.23.44.107.12 54 25 SUB May 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 A East Fremantle 6.410.414.815.9 99 WON Perth 2.33.103.106.13 49 50 WAC May 31 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 A East Fremantle 1.57.711.914.13 97 WON West Perth 1.11.33.63.7 25 72 SUB Jun 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 A East Fremantle 3.33.57.89.8 62 WON South Fremantle 0.21.51.73.9 27 35 FRE Jun 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 A East Fremantle 4.28.311.414.5 89 WON East Perth 1.25.56.58.7 55 34 POV Jun 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 H East Fremantle 1.35.36.57.7 49 LOST Subiaco 1.14.46.48.9 57 -8 FRE Jun 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H East Fremantle 4.46.910.1514.16 100 WON Perth 2.03.24.38.5 53 47 FRE Jul 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 H East Fremantle 7.410.415.921.15 141 WON West Perth 1.12.43.74.9 33 108 FRE Jul 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 H East Fremantle 6.510.914.1419.14 128 WON South Fremantle 2.36.69.612.9 81 47 FRE Jul 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 H East Fremantle 1.27.48.611.8 74 WON East Perth 6.56.68.109.11 65 9 FRE Jul 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 A East Fremantle 2.24.35.66.9 45 WON Subiaco 2.22.52.63.8 26 19 SUB Aug 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A East Fremantle 3.46.76.1010.17 77 WON Perth 1.13.34.65.10 40 37 WAC Aug 16 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 H East Fremantle 2.46.611.1116.18 114 WON West Perth 0.03.33.37.3 45 69 FRP Aug 21 (Thu, 12:00) Scores
2SF H East Fremantle 3.38.512.716.11 107 WON Subiaco 1.21.23.57.7 49 58 FRE Sep 6 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
PF A East Fremantle 3.27.68.715.12 102 WON South Fremantle 2.33.35.75.9 39 63 FRE Sep 13 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF A East Fremantle 1.13.24.37.4 46 LOST East Perth 3.06.48.510.8 68 -22 WAC Sep 20 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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