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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) 1898–2024

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
C. Doig

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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1929 Season (WAFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1929 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 H East Fremantle 3.75.89.129.14 68 LOST Claremont 2.05.77.99.15 69 -1 FRE Apr 20 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 A East Fremantle 2.05.48.513.11 89 WON Subiaco 3.45.511.1012.10 82 7 SUB Apr 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 H East Fremantle 4.67.1011.1311.14 80 WON Perth 2.25.67.79.12 66 14 FRE May 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 A East Fremantle 5.310.612.818.17 125 WON West Perth 4.27.812.1215.14 104 21 LEE May 18 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 East Fremantle       Bye        
6 A East Fremantle 0.34.145.168.18 66 WON South Fremantle 3.54.67.107.11 53 13 FRE Jun 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 A East Fremantle 2.47.88.1211.15 81 WON East Perth 1.21.65.95.11 41 40 POV Jun 3 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
8 A East Fremantle 4.16.57.710.11 71 LOST Claremont 2.43.99.1510.18 78 -7 CLM Jun 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H East Fremantle 4.18.211.313.11 89 WON Subiaco 2.36.49.1012.11 83 6 FRE Jun 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 H East Fremantle 4.57.1210.1513.17 95 WON South Fremantle 2.54.87.1511.19 85 10 FRE Jun 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 H East Fremantle 3.35.36.49.7 61 LOST West Perth 2.26.79.109.12 66 -5 FRE Jun 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 East Fremantle       Bye        
13 A East Fremantle 4.36.37.910.13 73 WON Perth 1.04.27.89.9 63 10 WAC Jul 20 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 H East Fremantle 8.413.718.1225.16 166 WON East Perth 1.12.104.107.12 54 112 FRE Jul 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 A East Fremantle 2.14.89.1112.12 84 WON West Perth 0.53.95.911.13 79 5 LEE Aug 3 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 H East Fremantle 1.59.1112.1315.22 112 WON Claremont 3.55.77.117.12 54 58 FRE Aug 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 H East Fremantle 3.39.813.814.16 100 WON Subiaco 3.74.810.1212.14 86 14 FRE Aug 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 H East Fremantle 2.55.812.1316.19 115 WON South Fremantle 3.19.610.712.9 81 34 FRE Aug 31 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 East Fremantle       Bye        
20 A East Fremantle 1.05.07.18.5 53 LOST Perth 3.66.910.1311.16 82 -29 WAC Sep 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
21 A East Fremantle 6.28.410.712.10 82 LOST East Perth 2.27.710.1312.15 87 -5 POV Sep 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2SF A East Fremantle 1.04.75.710.15 75 WON Subiaco 4.44.45.115.12 42 33 SUB Oct 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF A East Fremantle 5.75.126.198.22 70 WON South Fremantle 0.20.50.65.9 39 31 SUB Oct 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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