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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
M. Cowan

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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1977 Season (WANFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 1977 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 2.26.78.1021.17 143 WON Subiaco 8.610.913.1213.12 90 53 EFO Mar 28 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
2 A East Fremantle 5.58.716.1320.17 137 WON Perth 3.28.810.813.11 89 48 LAT Apr 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 A East Fremantle 6.415.819.1027.14 176 WON Claremont 2.47.516.1018.11 119 57 CLM Apr 9 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 H East Fremantle 8.611.817.1720.21 141 WON Swan Districts 0.15.56.1011.14 80 61 EFO Apr 16 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 H East Fremantle 2.43.86.1712.22 94 WON East Perth 4.47.912.1312.16 88 6 EFO Apr 23 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 A East Fremantle 6.39.714.1119.18 132 WON South Fremantle 5.46.99.1312.16 88 44 FRE Apr 30 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 H East Fremantle 2.36.137.1611.20 86 LOST West Perth 8.210.417.721.8 134 -48 EFO May 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 A East Fremantle 3.19.611.917.12 114 WON Subiaco 3.75.1011.1114.13 97 17 SUB May 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H East Fremantle 4.55.79.139.14 68 LOST Perth 1.46.66.811.12 78 -10 EFO May 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 H East Fremantle 2.16.510.713.9 87 LOST Claremont 4.36.1210.1312.17 89 -2 EFO May 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 A East Fremantle 6.1013.1417.2420.27 147 WON Swan Districts 3.56.811.1114.14 98 49 BAS Jun 4 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 A East Fremantle 2.35.1110.1314.16 100 LOST East Perth 6.69.818.1219.13 127 -27 POV Jun 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 H East Fremantle 1.66.98.1211.17 83 LOST South Fremantle 0.45.98.1411.19 85 -2 EFO Jun 18 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A East Fremantle 2.49.712.1016.12 108 LOST West Perth 5.310.412.719.12 126 -18 LEE Jul 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 H East Fremantle 5.910.1416.1921.25 151 WON Subiaco 1.25.58.913.11 89 62 EFO Jul 9 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 A East Fremantle 3.28.617.1120.12 132 WON Perth 7.411.714.1017.17 119 13 LAT Jul 16 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 A East Fremantle 4.48.812.1316.13 109 WON Claremont 2.34.55.79.14 68 41 CLM Jul 23 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
18 H East Fremantle 11.415.723.1227.17 179 WON Swan Districts 2.29.312.518.9 117 62 EFO Aug 6 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
19 H East Fremantle 4.35.513.1316.16 112 WON East Perth 3.212.512.717.9 111 1 EFO Aug 13 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
20 A East Fremantle 4.08.511.914.13 97 LOST South Fremantle 4.77.1011.1415.17 107 -10 FRE Aug 20 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
21 H East Fremantle 6.210.714.823.12 150 WON West Perth 3.84.99.1310.18 78 72 EFO Aug 27 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2SF H East Fremantle 6.09.112.715.10 100 LOST Perth 7.414.918.1023.16 154 -54 SUB Sep 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
PF A East Fremantle 4.18.812.1017.15 117 WON West Perth 2.66.612.815.11 101 16 SUB Sep 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF A East Fremantle 2.36.410.914.12 96 LOST Perth 4.412.719.1026.13 169 -73 SUB Sep 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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