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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
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

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1946 Season (WANFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1946 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 5.48.712.1017.13 115 WON East Perth 2.46.78.1014.15 99 16 FRE Apr 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 A East Fremantle 1.66.79.1111.18 84 WON Subiaco 2.03.68.79.9 63 21 SUB May 4 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 H East Fremantle 3.36.97.1413.23 101 WON Claremont 6.27.310.610.8 68 33 FRE May 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 A East Fremantle 4.49.611.1413.21 99 WON Perth 4.04.44.97.12 54 45 WAC May 18 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 H East Fremantle 7.39.613.1014.16 100 WON South Fremantle 3.47.97.128.13 61 39 FRE May 25 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 H East Fremantle 4.35.410.915.9 99 WON West Perth 2.26.78.810.15 75 24 SUB Jun 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 H East Fremantle 5.410.1219.1823.21 159 WON Swan Districts 2.54.96.109.14 68 91 FRE Jun 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 A East Fremantle 3.35.610.1015.15 105 WON East Perth 3.26.78.811.9 75 30 POV Jun 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H East Fremantle 3.47.911.1516.17 113 WON Subiaco 2.13.34.47.9 51 62 FRE Jun 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 A East Fremantle 7.114.420.727.14 176 WON Claremont 1.15.37.610.9 69 107 SUB Jun 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 A East Fremantle 6.39.69.711.17 83 WON Perth 3.35.37.48.6 54 29 WAC Jul 6 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 H East Fremantle 3.47.611.1117.16 118 WON South Fremantle 3.24.47.510.9 69 49 FRE Jul 13 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 H East Fremantle 3.311.911.915.15 105 WON West Perth 3.33.68.128.13 61 44 SUB Jul 20 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A East Fremantle 5.110.511.915.14 104 WON Swan Districts 3.35.57.1010.13 73 31 BAS Jul 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 H East Fremantle 8.514.1416.1525.19 169 WON East Perth 2.34.37.69.8 62 107 FRE Aug 3 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 A East Fremantle 8.612.716.1116.14 110 WON South Fremantle 2.06.78.712.16 88 22 FRE Aug 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 H East Fremantle 2.33.105.1410.19 79 WON Subiaco 4.36.76.127.14 56 23 FRE Aug 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 A East Fremantle 5.28.69.711.9 75 WON Claremont 4.56.146.148.16 64 11 WAC Aug 31 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 H East Fremantle 6.412.815.1420.19 139 WON Perth 4.28.411.715.9 99 40 FRE Sep 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2SF H East Fremantle 4.37.87.149.21 75 WON West Perth 4.45.88.910.11 71 4 SUB Sep 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF H East Fremantle 1.46.77.1211.13 79 WON West Perth 4.26.57.810.13 73 6 SUB Oct 3 (Thu, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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