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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
T. Booth

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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1965 Season (WANFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1965 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 2.34.68.914.9 93 WON Claremont 3.45.57.99.10 64 29 CLM Apr 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 H East Fremantle 2.45.613.1217.14 116 WON South Fremantle 3.17.713.816.10 106 10 EFO Apr 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 A East Fremantle 0.02.65.79.10 64 LOST Swan Districts 2.55.713.1218.15 123 -59 BAS Apr 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 H East Fremantle 2.28.811.1017.15 117 WON Subiaco 6.311.514.814.12 96 21 EFO May 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 H East Fremantle 4.38.69.811.10 76 WON East Perth 0.21.75.146.15 51 25 EFO May 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 A East Fremantle 5.39.1312.1618.22 130 WON Perth 4.29.411.814.10 94 36 LAT May 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 H East Fremantle 1.14.56.57.11 53 LOST West Perth 5.17.510.612.6 78 -25 EFO May 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 H East Fremantle 5.58.912.1214.15 99 WON Claremont 1.28.610.714.7 91 8 EFO May 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 A East Fremantle 4.011.216.522.11 143 WON South Fremantle 2.57.711.1214.12 96 47 FRE Jun 7 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
10 H East Fremantle 2.42.94.137.18 60 LOST Swan Districts 2.14.75.99.10 64 -4 EFO Jun 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 A East Fremantle 2.33.56.59.10 64 LOST Subiaco 5.17.310.613.6 84 -20 SUB Jun 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 A East Fremantle 1.23.68.811.10 76 LOST East Perth 1.15.47.1111.15 81 -5 POV Jul 3 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 H East Fremantle 3.45.59.912.10 82 WON Perth 1.06.38.611.10 76 6 EFO Jul 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A East Fremantle 3.47.710.1310.13 73 LOST West Perth 3.26.410.414.12 96 -23 LEE Jul 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 A East Fremantle 5.26.49.59.8 62 LOST Claremont 2.58.1112.1317.22 124 -62 CLM Jul 31 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 H East Fremantle 5.46.59.713.9 87 WON South Fremantle 2.15.36.159.17 71 16 EFO Aug 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 A East Fremantle 2.34.97.1110.13 73 LOST Swan Districts 2.74.1310.1813.18 96 -23 BAS Aug 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 H East Fremantle 5.110.412.514.11 95 WON Subiaco 2.23.37.711.11 77 18 EFO Aug 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 H East Fremantle 5.39.515.918.11 119 WON East Perth 2.24.95.1314.16 100 19 EFO Aug 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
20 A East Fremantle 3.27.48.89.9 63 LOST Perth 4.49.149.1918.22 130 -67 LAT Sep 4 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
21 H East Fremantle 1.13.76.118.17 65 LOST West Perth 2.45.58.711.9 75 -10 EFO Sep 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
1SF H East Fremantle 2.65.714.1116.15 111 WON West Perth 2.18.710.913.14 92 19 SUB Sep 18 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
PF H East Fremantle 4.16.18.39.15 69 WON Claremont 3.13.67.78.8 56 13 SUB Oct 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF A East Fremantle 2.65.99.1418.18 126 WON Swan Districts 5.111.314.516.6 102 24 SUB Oct 9 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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