Australian Football

AustralianFootball.com Celebrating the history of the great Australian game

 

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
W. H. Kitson

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

Read more


1941 Season (WANFL) Fixture

Top

East Fremantle's 1941 Fixture

Rnd
H&A
Club
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
R
Opponent
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
Mgn
Grd
Date
SC
1 A East Fremantle 4.39.411.814.11 95 LOST West Perth 4.313.618.822.12 144 -49 LEE Apr 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 A East Fremantle 5.59.616.922.13 145 WON South Fremantle 3.15.48.810.9 69 76 FRE May 3 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 H East Fremantle 4.119.1515.2220.30 150 WON Perth 0.11.32.67.9 51 99 FRE May 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 A East Fremantle 2.56.911.1212.16 88 LOST Claremont 5.68.1214.1620.19 139 -51 CLM May 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 H East Fremantle 4.58.810.912.13 85 WON East Perth 1.22.37.38.6 54 31 FRE May 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 H East Fremantle 3.47.1114.1318.14 122 WON Subiaco 3.35.45.56.9 45 77 FRE May 31 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 H East Fremantle 3.56.711.717.8 110 WON Swan Districts 4.47.611.714.10 94 16 SUB Jun 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 H East Fremantle 6.78.1513.2017.23 125 WON West Perth 2.03.14.28.5 53 72 FRE Jun 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H East Fremantle 3.010.414.716.12 108 WON South Fremantle 10.812.1113.1613.19 97 11 FRE Jun 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 A East Fremantle 2.39.511.815.13 103 WON Perth 3.33.44.105.11 41 62 WAC Jun 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 H East Fremantle 2.44.68.1613.22 100 WON Claremont 2.55.115.1210.16 76 24 FRE Jul 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 A East Fremantle 2.46.910.1011.15 81 LOST East Perth 2.29.711.1113.14 92 -11 POV Jul 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 A East Fremantle 3.09.412.718.12 120 WON Subiaco 4.26.212.512.5 77 43 SUB Jul 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A East Fremantle 1.110.511.614.7 91 WON Swan Districts 2.13.16.78.8 56 35 BAS Jul 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 A East Fremantle 4.27.59.911.13 79 LOST South Fremantle 4.58.711.1015.15 105 -26 FRE Aug 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 H East Fremantle 5.512.719.925.12 162 WON Perth 5.16.410.413.7 85 77 FRE Aug 9 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 H East Fremantle 5.58.713.1218.17 125 WON Claremont 3.17.68.811.9 75 50 FRE Aug 16 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 A East Fremantle 7.19.116.619.8 122 WON East Perth 5.111.415.516.10 106 16 POV Aug 30 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 H East Fremantle 5.38.710.1315.15 105 WON Subiaco 1.35.55.76.7 43 62 FRE Sep 6 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
20 H East Fremantle 4.413.720.1123.13 151 WON Swan Districts 3.23.55.105.14 44 107 FRE Sep 13 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2SF A East Fremantle 2.32.62.115.18 48 LOST West Perth 4.36.49.711.7 73 -25 SUB Sep 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
PF A East Fremantle 3.39.712.821.13 139 WON South Fremantle 8.29.614.1015.10 100 39 SUB Oct 4 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF A East Fremantle 1.64.136.1510.17 77 LOST West Perth 4.66.810.1014.14 98 -21 SUB Oct 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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