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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
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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1956 Season (WANFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1956 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 A East Fremantle 1.33.88.149.19 73 LOST Swan Districts 5.38.98.1214.15 99 -26 BAS Apr 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 H East Fremantle 1.35.36.610.9 69 WON West Perth 0.01.62.74.9 33 36 EFO May 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 A East Fremantle 2.19.410.711.11 77 WON Subiaco 5.35.66.86.12 48 29 SUB May 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 A East Fremantle 3.17.48.711.8 74 LOST South Fremantle 5.57.1111.1615.18 108 -34 FRE May 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 H East Fremantle 2.46.48.512.8 80 WON East Perth 1.23.67.89.8 62 18 EFO May 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 A East Fremantle 5.08.48.69.11 65 WON Perth 2.14.29.59.8 62 3 SUB Jun 4 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
7 H East Fremantle 1.45.106.119.15 69 WON Claremont 2.43.67.98.10 58 11 EFO Jun 9 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 H East Fremantle 6.712.716.1419.17 131 WON Swan Districts 1.35.79.911.12 78 53 EFO Jun 30 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 A East Fremantle 2.29.79.711.17 83 LOST West Perth 5.58.89.1712.18 90 -7 LEE Jul 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 H East Fremantle 1.16.119.159.20 74 WON Subiaco 4.45.48.510.9 69 5 EFO Jul 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 H East Fremantle 3.07.28.214.5 89 WON South Fremantle 2.52.95.146.18 54 35 EFO Jul 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 A East Fremantle 2.12.34.76.9 45 LOST East Perth 2.23.57.810.10 70 -25 POV Jul 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 H East Fremantle 2.15.48.812.10 82 LOST Perth 0.25.510.1212.14 86 -4 EFO Aug 4 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A East Fremantle 5.48.614.1218.15 123 WON Claremont 5.17.48.612.10 82 41 CLM Aug 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 H East Fremantle 4.17.312.716.10 106 WON Swan Districts 1.34.67.88.11 59 47 EFO Aug 18 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 A East Fremantle 3.74.88.910.12 72 LOST South Fremantle 2.08.812.1117.11 113 -41 FRE Aug 25 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 A East Fremantle 5.36.69.813.14 92 WON Subiaco 4.36.39.911.11 77 15 SUB Sep 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 A East Fremantle 2.36.66.79.8 62 LOST West Perth 2.45.69.1011.15 81 -19 LEE Sep 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 H East Fremantle 1.19.510.917.13 115 WON Perth 1.01.25.65.7 37 78 EFO Sep 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
1SF H East Fremantle 1.35.86.914.13 97 WON Perth 4.46.79.99.10 64 33 SUB Sep 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
PF A East Fremantle 4.64.107.138.16 64 LOST South Fremantle 3.37.78.1012.10 82 -18 SUB Oct 6 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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