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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. A. Corbett

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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1958 Season (WANFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1958 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 3.16.214.717.11 113 WON Perth 3.37.79.711.13 79 34 EFO Apr 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 A East Fremantle 4.06.214.716.13 109 WON West Perth 4.58.911.1213.13 91 18 LEE Apr 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 H East Fremantle 3.37.69.815.17 107 WON Subiaco 3.33.66.116.11 47 60 EFO May 3 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 A East Fremantle 1.45.1410.1815.24 114 WON Claremont 4.08.09.311.3 69 45 CLM May 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 H East Fremantle 8.210.412.1117.13 115 WON Swan Districts 0.42.53.54.8 32 83 EFO May 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 H East Fremantle 4.35.510.710.7 67 WON East Perth 0.12.53.87.10 52 15 EFO May 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 A East Fremantle 3.07.310.913.15 93 LOST South Fremantle 11.811.914.1120.12 132 -39 FRE Jun 2 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
8 A East Fremantle 4.27.410.711.10 76 WON Perth 1.15.38.59.12 66 10 WAC Jun 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H East Fremantle 3.36.510.811.12 78 LOST West Perth 3.18.611.813.15 93 -15 EFO Jun 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 A East Fremantle 1.34.78.910.10 70 WON Subiaco 0.41.84.106.13 49 21 SUB Jun 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 H East Fremantle 5.614.717.1226.18 174 WON Claremont 2.22.54.87.11 53 121 EFO Jun 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 A East Fremantle 2.27.79.139.20 74 LOST Swan Districts 4.37.69.712.8 80 -6 BAS Jul 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 A East Fremantle 6.59.513.714.11 95 WON East Perth 3.07.111.313.9 87 8 POV Jul 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 H East Fremantle 5.69.914.1319.20 134 WON South Fremantle 5.29.612.1117.13 115 19 EFO Jul 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 H East Fremantle 3.23.24.47.4 46 LOST Perth 0.24.95.96.11 47 -1 EFO Jul 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 A East Fremantle 4.211.415.517.7 109 WON West Perth 4.67.612.815.10 100 9 LEE Aug 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 H East Fremantle 3.34.510.812.9 81 WON Claremont 2.06.56.67.9 51 30 EFO Aug 16 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 A East Fremantle 6.58.710.1211.12 78 WON Subiaco 1.25.66.119.13 67 11 SUB Aug 23 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 H East Fremantle 4.19.712.1017.16 118 WON Swan Districts 4.45.412.1015.12 102 16 EFO Aug 30 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
20 A East Fremantle 4.411.1113.1417.20 122 WON East Perth 2.16.312.1316.13 109 13 POV Sep 6 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
21 A East Fremantle 2.46.613.919.15 129 WON South Fremantle 7.310.412.614.11 95 34 FRE Sep 13 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2SF H East Fremantle 4.55.512.914.9 93 WON East Perth 3.16.56.911.11 77 16 SUB Sep 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF H East Fremantle 0.45.96.108.15 63 LOST East Perth 3.75.88.158.17 65 -2 SUB Oct 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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