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KEY FACTS

Official name
Sturt Football Club

Known as
Sturt

Nickname
Double Blues

Formed
1901

Colours
Oxford and Cambridge blue

Associated clubs
Sturt Reserves; Sturt U18s; Sturt-South Adelaide; Sturt U16s; Sturt WFC; Sturt U14s

Affiliation (Current)
South Australian National Football league (SANFL) 1901–2025

Home Ground
Peter Motley Oval

SANFL Premierships
1915, 1919, 1926, 1932, 1940, 1966-67-68-69-70, 1974, 1976, 2002, 2016-17 (15 total)

Senior Premierships
Stanley H Lewis Memorial Trophy: 1968, 1978, 1983, 2008 (4 total); SANFL Night/Knock-out/Pre-season Series: 1954, 1975 (2 total)

Most Games
360 - Paul Bagshaw (1964-1980)

Most Goals
672 - Brant Chambers (2002-10)

League Top Goalkickers
Frank Golding (30) 1920; Paul Caust (57) 1955; Ross Sawley (70) 1964; Ken Whelan (107) 1973 & (108) 1974; Rick Davies (151) 1983; Brant Chambers (112) 2007, (97) 2008 and (80) 2009; Mark Evans (40) 2018 (10 total)

Magarey Medalists
Hendrick Waye 1903; Harry Cumberland 1911; Vic Richardson 1920; Horrie Riley 1923; Keith Dunn 1933; Len Fitzgerald 1952, 1954 & 1959; John Halbert 1961; Greg Whittlesea 1988; Brodie Atkinson 1997; Damian Squire 1999 & 2000; Jade Sheedy 2002; Tim Weatherald 2002; Luke Crane 2008; Zane Kirkwood 2014 & 2016 (15 medallists/18 medals)

Headquarters
39 Oxford Terrace, Unley, SA 5061

Phone: (08) 8271 4611 

Email
general@sturtfc.com.au

Website
sturtfc.com.au

CEO
WG Noal

President
ER Brown / JK Alderman

Sturt



"Try a word association test involving the name ‘Sturt’ with South Australian football followers of more than fifty years of age - and long memories - and the chances are that the most popular responses would be terms like “skilful”, “brilliant”, “classy” and “dazzling”. The Sturt side that dominated South Australian football during the second half of the 1960s had an impact which no other team in the history of the SANFL, with the possible exception of the great Port Adelaide side which won six successive premierships during the 1950s, ever managed ... "

  • John Devaney looks at the history of the Double Blues and their extraordinary run of success in the late 1960s

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1934 Season (SANFL) Fixture

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Sturt's 1934 Fixture

Rnd
H&A
Club
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
R
Opponent
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
Mgn
Grd
Date
SC
1 H Sturt 3.54.68.108.13 61 LOST Port Adelaide 2.35.86.1010.16 76 -15 UNL Apr 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 A Sturt 0.12.74.105.16 46 LOST North Adelaide 10.412.519.720.11 131 -85 PRO May 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 H Sturt 1.35.78.1011.15 81 LOST Norwood 6.46.510.912.10 82 -1 UNL May 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 A Sturt 6.38.717.918.14 122 WON South Adelaide 2.37.711.1017.13 115 7 ADO May 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 H Sturt 1.15.810.1513.22 100 WON Glenelg 2.54.56.912.13 85 15 UNL May 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 H Sturt 5.210.612.913.12 90 WON West Torrens 2.26.310.1012.12 84 6 ADO Jun 4 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
7 A Sturt 1.47.98.1213.20 98 WON West Adelaide 1.83.146.218.21 69 29 ASG Jun 9 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 H Sturt 6.107.1316.1722.22 154 WON Port Adelaide 2.18.311.814.14 98 56 UNL Jun 23 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H Sturt 7.210.214.517.8 110 WON North Adelaide 4.69.1512.1914.20 104 6 UNL Jun 30 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 A Sturt 0.14.58.915.13 103 WON Norwood 4.78.711.913.9 87 16 NOR Jul 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 A Sturt 4.87.1111.1916.24 120 WON South Adelaide 3.15.78.810.12 72 48 ADO Jul 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 A Sturt 3.35.49.714.11 95 LOST Glenelg 5.111.216.520.8 128 -33 GLE Jul 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 H Sturt 7.48.611.914.10 94 WON West Torrens 0.05.59.613.10 88 6 UNL Aug 4 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 H Sturt 4.26.38.911.13 79 LOST West Adelaide 2.67.99.917.13 115 -36 UNL Aug 18 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 A Sturt 4.26.59.811.11 77 LOST Port Adelaide 4.38.812.1014.11 95 -18 ALB Aug 25 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 A Sturt 2.46.79.1213.13 91 LOST West Torrens 4.27.510.715.13 103 -12 THB Sep 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 H Sturt 3.48.812.1115.13 103 WON South Adelaide 3.43.64.116.15 51 52 UNL Sep 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
1SF H Sturt 3.36.311.1014.15 99 WON West Torrens 0.76.107.1312.14 86 13 ADO Sep 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
PF A Sturt 2.14.86.149.16 70 LOST Glenelg 2.34.36.913.11 89 -19 ADO Sep 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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